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Gun nut kills 1?, wounds 7? in Orlando, Florida office building

Category: Gun Ownership

The numbers are vague. The shooter is identified as 50 year old Jason Rodriguez who opened fire in an office building in Orlando, Florida, killing 1 and wounding others. He was a former employee of where he did the shooting. The killer is at large....

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I need your help picking out a tee-shirt.

Category: Atheism

I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....

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The Bible says "If ye take a man's rifle and beat him to death with it, ye shall be put to death" ... in Texas.

Category: Gun Ownership

Back in the 1990s, Khristian Oliver (that's an interesting name) was robbing a man's home. That man had a rifle to defend his home from robbers, but Khristian took the rifle from him, shot him in the face, and then used the rifle to beat...

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DuWayne Brayton: We should all eschew the rejection of the other as your subaltern, even if only by accident.

Category: Gun Ownership

Traumatized.

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Shoot Lots of Bullets = Don't Worry You Won't Get Shot

Category: Gun Ownership

No one was shot in the following video. So don't worry about carrying around guns. It's perfectly safe....

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The Death of a Gun Owner

Category: Gun Ownership

On September 11th, 2008 Meleanie Hain went to her child's soccer game with a Glock pistol in a holster strapped to her hip....

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Guns in Canada

Category: Gun Ownership

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More guns = Less crime

Category: Gun Ownership

Pursuant to the recent discussion on the safety of carrying guns, I thought I'd throw this on the table:...

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Carry a gun = you get shot more often

Category: Gun Ownership

In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely...

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Bringing Guns to Obama's Talk in Minneapolis

Category: Republicans

I discussed the Hendrickson Incident here (and now Josh Henderson has come to Quiche Moraine to defend himself from the Hippies from Uptown) but I had missed, until Hendrickson himself pointed it out to me, this coverage from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. To...

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