BREAKING: Maria Butina has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and cooperate with authorities in any ongoing investigations. https://t.co/669tkWukbf — Pete Madden (@pamadden) December 10, 2018 Ms. Butina has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and cooperate with Federal, state, and local investigations. ABC News has the details (emphasis mine): Maria Butina, a 30-year-old Russian gun …
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Thoughts and prayers, mofos
Have we gloated about the hardships besetting the death merchant sector and their industry lobbying group lately? After NRA reports massive drop in contributions, gun stocks take a hit https://t.co/wR7HN83rSs — FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) December 3, 2018 From the Fortune article: Share prices for some gun manufacturers dropped after the National Rifle Association released that it …
Friday Evening Open Thread: The NRA Lost This Election
"Dems ousted at least 15 House Rs with 'A' NRA ratings, while the candidates elected to replace them all scored an 'F' NRA rating."https://t.co/4SVsqggqy0 — Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) November 9, 2018 More good news of the Blue Wave! listen up nerds, WE make the gunshot victims, and YOU treat them https://t.co/NkMwZyeXte — ben hsieh …
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I Don’t Understand Gun Culture
With the shooting in the Thousand Oaks bar having been committed by a veteran who allegedly had PTSD, I did some thinking while driving today, and I have just come to the conclusion that I will never understand gun culture. I just simply do not get it. I mean obviously I have shot guns and …
My Pet T-Rex
Did you know some of the founding fathers kept birds as pets and livestock? It’s true — you can read all about it in the Federalist Papers. The right to keep and bear birds is as American as apple pie. Now, some people claim that the right to keep chickens, parrots, ducks, peacocks, etc., shouldn’t …
Guns, Suicide, And Starting To Change The Argument
So, fellow Jackals, I’ve got a piece up today in the Boston Globe on what firearm-suicides tell us about who is most at risk from a gun in the home. The answer leaps out of the numbers — 2/3 gun deaths in the US are self-inflicted, and another notable fraction are murders within or close …
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The Kavanaugh Hearings: At Long Last, Sir, Have You No Decency?
That moment when a nominee for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court refused to shake the hand of a father whose daughter was killed by gun violence.@fred_guttenberg, a man of courage, confronts Brett Kavanaugh, a man with none. pic.twitter.com/pVzYAaPatz — The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 4, 2018 Wow, here you can hear @fred_guttenberg telling …
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