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Guns
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Valentine’s cards for 2015
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Shoot Down the Stupid Second Amendment
Repeal the Stupid Second Amendment. Surround it, grab it, bring it in the back room, pull down the shades, and end it.
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Increasingly Dangerous Guns Endanger US Communities
In “The Last Gun” Tom Diaz pitches ideas to halt the NRA's campaign of fear that's pumped up weapons sales.
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Celebrating Open Carry in St. Louis
In America, there's nothing newsworthy about a crowd of heavily-armed white people marching through the streets of a major city.
Attack on Canadian Parliament Fuels “Anti-Terror” Laws, Ignoring Ties to Mental Illness, Drug Abuse
As Canada mourns the death of a soldier gunned down while standing guard at the National War Monument in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pushing new anti-terrorism legislation.
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Understanding Our Many Fergusons: Kill Lines – the Will, the Right and the Need to Kill
There is a race war raging in the US that pits the right of African-Americans to have their young people live with dignity against angry white policemen and vigilantes.
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Fact-Checking Feinstein on the Assault Weapons Ban
The senator says “the evidence is clear: the ban worked.” Except there's no evidence it saved lives.
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Guns in the Mental Health Clinic: Not Therapeutic
The tragic case of a psychiatrist firing a gun to protect himself and others from a patient who had just shot a caseworker to death illuminates the unrealistic expectation …
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Goons Guns and Georgia
Grandparents reflect on Georgia gun laws.
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An American Horror Story
The details of one of the more gruesome recent everyday mass gun murders invite us to consider gun control and gun possession from a new perspective.