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Category: Gun Ownership
The man owned a virtual arsenal of firearms and ammunition, which was ineffectively secured. So it was fairly easy for his son, Tim, to arm himself and kill 15 people before turning a weapon on himself. Subsequent to this horrific act, regulations have been rewritten...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:49 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
Matt Springer is LIVID with my commentary on gun control. Go read his post here and say something nice in the comment section to make him feel better. Mike Dunford has further comments on this issue as well, and as has been happening all along...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:43 AM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
There have been questions raised as part of this discussion about the nature of the weapons Nidal Hasan used in the Ft. Hood shooting. He apparently carried two pistols, and both are designed to be effective killing weapons. The more newly designed Five-sevN that he...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:08 PM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
Yes, I'm afraid so....
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:32 AM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
In Pine Plains New York, a gunman in his 40s, alone, has taken a high school administrator hostage, no shots have been fired, and it sounds like they are getting the students out of the school OK. Pine Plains is east of the Hudson near...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:59 AM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:33 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:52 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
Traumatized.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:07 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gun Ownership
No one was shot in the following video. So don't worry about carrying around guns. It's perfectly safe....
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:51 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PZ Myers 11.22.2009
Tim Lambert 11.22.2009
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
Ed Brayton 11.19.2009
Tim Lambert 11.18.2009
