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The fraidy cats and the fetishists are stocking up.

With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay and semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. locations.

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said yesterday that it would continue to sell guns, including rifles like the one used at Newtown, where 26 people, most of them children, were killed on Dec. 14.

It would be simpler if all they needed were inflatable women, like normal nutcases.

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Y = the number of firearms per 100 persons.

X = the homicide rate per 100,000 persons.

(Graph axes descriptions corrected. Algebra II was a long time ago.)

Rescued from a comment by George Smith.

Support your local sports franchise, politely.

Police say the victims, a 36-year-old man and a 30-year-old man, got onto the westbound SEPTA El at 15th and Market streets around 10:40 p.m.

While on the train, an argument erupted. Investigators say the victims were fans of the Chicago Bulls and were celebrating the team’s victory.

Lieutenant John Walker from West Detectives told Action News on Thursday, “It escalates when the young males began to use profanity. The [36]-year-old says, ‘listen man, this train is filled with people – there’s young kids, there’s ladies on here. You need to watch your mouth, young boy.'”

At about one minute into the surveillance video, the train stops at 46th and Market Street and the Early brothers exit onto the platform.

Surveillance cameras were rolling as one of the brothers, identified by police as Matthew Early, turned around, pulled out a gun, and fired.

Guess the shooter got his man card reissued.

Quoted at PoliticalProf:

I always agree that self defense with a gun is a John Wayne induced fantasy. The truth is the shooter’s mother was killed by a gun she owned. There’s no room to say “if she had a gun she could defend herself,” because she did and it killed her.

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God forbid I should ever feel so weak as to have to pack heat to feel strong.

At Driftglass.

Politeness spreads in the schools.

An 11-year-old boy was booked into a Salt Lake County juvenile detention facility on suspicion of several felonies after he showed up at his school on Monday packing a .22-caliber handgun.

Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said Tuesday that the boy, a sixth-grader at West Kearns Elementary School, continued to insist he only brought the pistol to “protect himself and his friends from a Connecticut-style incident.”

Dick Destiny is all over what’s happening at Gunnut Central Headquarters.

Check him out.

Via Running Chicken.

Play roulette, politely:

Authorities allege a southwest Missouri man held a 65-year-old woman captive for two days while he sexually assaulted her and played Russian roulette with her.

Stand your ground in the pizza joint, politely.

Police said the incident unfolded about 4 p.m. inside the Little Caesars, 3463 Fourth St. N, after Randall White, 49, got mad about his service.

Another man in line, Michael Jock, 52, of St. Petersburg admonished White.

That “prompted them to exchange words and it became a shoving match,” said police spokesman Mike Puetz.

White raised a fist. Jock, a concealed-weapons permit holder, pulled out a .38 Taurus Ultralight Special Revolver.

He fired one round, hitting White in the lower torso. The men grappled and the gun fired again, hitting White in roughly the same spot, police said.

The sociopath’s dream: Every city, Dodge City; every hill, Boot Hill.

Kohenari comments:

Attention wingnuts:

That war against tyranny you’re so worried about being armed so you can win? You lost a long, long time ago.

The government is not trying to kill you; if it was, you’d already be dead. Take off your tinfoil hats and stop stockpiling handguns.

Via Political Prof.

When at the movies, be considerate of your fellow attendees:

Sheriff’s officials say a man opened fire in a San Antonio movie theater parking lot, wounding one person before an officer shot him inside the theater.

Bexar (bayr) County sheriff’s spokesman Louis Antu says the incident started about 9:30 p.m. Sunday when the man fired shots inside a nearby restaurant. It’s not clear what led to the shooting.

It’s not going to end, is it?

Also, too.

The Philly Daily News is fed up. A nugget:

And while we’re at it, let’s try this on for size: Those who demand unlimited access to weapons – and bark at anyone suggesting restrictions on the number of guns they can buy – are not defending the Constitution, or freedom or integrity. They’re defending their own disease. A disease that makes them freak out if they can’t buy more than one gun a month.

Let’s start calling them on their bullshit.

Read the rest. Do please read the rest.

Addendum:

Words fail me.

Mass shootings seem to be a peculiarly American phenomenon.

Ezra Klein rounds up some statistics. Here’s a few (emphasis in the original):

2. Eleven of the 20 worst mass shootings in the last 50 years took place in the United States. In second place is Finland, with two.

(snip)

4. Of the 12 deadliest shootings in the United States, six have happened from 2007 onward.

5. America is an unusually violent country, but not as much as it used to be.

Kieran Healy, a sociologist at Duke University, in July made a graph of “deaths due to assault” in the United States and other developed countries. The United States is a clear outlier, with rates well above other countries.

Follow the link for the rest.

In a related vein, see these three posts at Dick Destiny’s place.