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Die it with the NRA’s miracle malarkey diet:

When an outbreak of food poisoning occurs, nobody says that dying from one’s dinner is the inevitable price of eating.

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When the subject is gun violence, though, the National Rifle Association has been feeding the country a similarly poisonous line for decades: that if mass murder is the inevitable price of the Second Amendment, then so be it; that the only permissible answer to gun killings is more guns; that any effective clamp-down on firearms would undermine freedom — including limits on assault-style weapons that can mow down multiple victims in one clip — and that anyone who advocates such a thing in the wake of the latest massacre is “politicizing” tragedy.

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PoliticalProf asks a question.

Steven M. spotlights the WATB in gunnuttery (emphasis in the original):

. . . we completely ignore one of the main drivers of the gun culture — possibly the most significant one: Guns are fun. Lots of people want guns just to have a rip-roaring good time. And if you deprive them of this fun, they bawl and whine like spoiled children.

Do please read the rest.

The movies will be ever so much more exciting once it fully blossoms.

Celebrate, politely.

A New Year’s celebration crashed into Norfolk prosecutor Brent Johnson’s driveway last week.

Specifically, a 9 mm slug fired during holiday revelry dented his car and came to rest in his driveway.

Incensed, Johnson pocketed the slug and showed it to friends and colleagues. “If that 9 mm had struck a human being in the head, there’s no doubt it would kill them,” said Johnson, a veteran attorney and Army Reserve officer.

The article goes on to list numerous other examples of gunnutty expressions of joy and happiness during the holiday.

Once you start keeping track, you will find that, in real life, antics like this and others more deadly far outnumber examples of good guys winning High Noon shootouts and claiming fair maidens.

The High Noon shootouts fill gun nuts’ fantasies as they find fulfillment fondling their Glocks.

But they are still and only fantasies.

More often than not, relying on guns for personal safety does not turn out the way gun proponents predict.

It rebounds, sometimes in unspeakably sad ways.

Despite what the NRA tells you, Hitler did not confiscate all the guns in Germany.

The first half of the article chronicles gun nuts’ numerous recent invocations of Godwin’s law; if you’ve been paying attention, you can skip it.

The last half gets to the history.

At the very least, check out the penultimate* paragraph.

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*Despite what some persons seem to think, “penultimate” does not mean “more than ultimate.”

Really.

According to Myron Pitts, results of a recent survey show that NRA members are not nearly so hostile to at least some regulation of gun sales as are the leaders of that lobbying group. A snippet (emphasis added):

Seventy-four percent of NRA members support requiring a background check for anyone who buys a gun (emphasis mine).

Seventy-nine percent support requiring background checks on employees who work for gun retailers.

Seventy-four percent believe gun permits should be granted only to people who have completed gun safety training, and 68 percent believe permits should be denied to people with violent offenses in their past.

You never, ever hear this kind of thoughtful moderation, however, from the leaders who speak for the group’s 4.3 million members.

The survey numbers suggest that the NRA leadership – extremists such as LaPierre – are speaking for and fighting for the gun lobby, not the gun owner. Every solution they are likely to propose to address the issue of mass shootings will always involve adding more guns to the equation, not fewer. That’s because the gun lobby wants one thing: gun sales for its manufacturers.

Click to read the rest. It’s now behind a paywall. You are free to search for it.

Thom parses the actions and writings of the founder to determine the intent of the 2nd Amendment and finds that fomenting the overthrow of the government not part of it.

Be polite to your neighbors’ pets.

It was just after 9:00 p.m. Thursday when police say someone walked into the Sims’ family backyard, unclipped the dog, and shot her in the head multiple times in an alley behind the house.

Viewed historically, it’s all about the white to bear arms.

Tony Norman explains:

A few months into Ronald Reagan’s first term as governor of California, 24 members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense marched into the state Capitol in Sacramento brandishing .357 Magnums, .45-caliber pistols and 12-gauge shotguns.

They were an orderly militia of black people, both men and women, demanding recognition of their Second Amendment rights. They wanted to protect themselves against what they called a racist white establishment and police state.

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It didn’t take long for the Gipper to become a believer in the kind of selective gun control that would keep guns in those pre-semi-automatic days out of the hands of black folks already partial to leather jackets and black shades.

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History matters, folks. It illuminates the present.

The Supreme Court refuses to hear a case to overturn a Georgia law against guns in churches.

Gun nuts will have to leave their graven images at home.

MOAR guns is the answer.

What was the question?

Oh, yeah.

How can we increase sales?

Celebrate, politely.

In case you missed it, a woman watching a fireworks display from the balcony of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club was hit by a wayward bullet Monday night.

That makes at least four times in the past year that a Hillsborough or Pinellas County resident has been hit by a falling bullet in the name of celebration. That would include two bullets in a head or face, one in a wrist and one in a back since Jan. 1, 2012.

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I suppose you could argue that harsher laws are in order, but I’m not sure how much impact that would have.

“It would probably be a deterrent to some people,” said Bruce Bartlett, chief assistant state attorney for the Pinellas-Pasco district. “But the kind of people shooting guns on New Year’s probably aren’t smart enough to figure that out.”

Recognize diversity, politely.

The victim and his girlfriend were headed toward their car early Wednesday in the Walmart parking lot at 1575 Land O’Lakes Boulevard when a man approached them. He asked the victim if he was Muslim or from the Middle East. The victim said no. But the man shot him twice at close range with a gas-propelled pellet gun while saying “N – – – – – with a white girl.”

The attacker fired more than 20 pellets, deputies said.

Part of white privilege is that what white folks do is considered the norm.

For example, you can find many articles agonizing over “inner city” (that means “Not White”) crime. How many do you see about “white crime”?

White is “normal,” so crimes by white are unnoticed, unexamined, unremarkable, un-remarked on, ipso facto individual acts that are in no way related to whiteness, even as Not White crimes are considered somehow inherent to being Not White.

In an interview with historian Ann Little, Chauncey Devega cuts through the veil crap to explore the history of white America’s preoccupation with guns.

Follow the link, read the entire post, and listen to the podcast:

As I explored in a series of posts, the central question regarding the Gun Right is how these mass shootings do not lead to any serious exploration of the intersection(s) of Whiteness, White Masculinity, and mass gun violence. White men commit an overwhelming amount of the mass shootings in the United States. Yet, except for a few outliers, there is no sustained effort to engage the obvious puzzle: if white men are killing people, often by the dozens–in murders where they are the offenders at twice their rate in the general population–why are so many in the news media afraid and hostile to basic questions about “white crime?”

Mourn your losses, politely.

The police claim he shot his pet snake and have charged him with cruelty to animals, but he says that the snake died a natural death.

“I couldn’t bury him or the other animals would get him,” Ericcson told NBC Charlotte, the Observer’s news partner. “I had to shoot it to get the gas out of him, then I was going to burn him.”

Ericcson said the snake was his pet for about 17 years. “I’ve had that snake since he was so small he could just wrap around your wrist,” he said. “Me and my wife can’t have kids, so the animals are our kids.”

Ericcson claimed he was so distraught over the snake’s death, he shot up the large cabinet that contained his Dale Earnhardt collection.

Words fail me.

Therapists agree that it’s important to be polite to yourself.

A man in northwestern Arizona was sent to the hospital after accidentally shooting himself in the foot, authorities said.

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When he was kneeling down for a shot, he accidentally discharged a shotgun, hitting himself in the foot, the sheriff’s office said.

Bringing the term, “shooting himself in the foot,” to life

All snark aside, some persons are too stupid to touch firearms.

Via Juanita Jean.

All that politeness is starting to get silly.