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NRA’s Annual Meeting in Houston

May 2, 2013 by Brooklyn Dame 2 Comments

From May 3rd through May 5th, the National Rifle Association will hold its annual meeting in Houston, Texas. According to the NRA website,

With over 550 exhibitors covering over 400,000 square feet of exhibit hall space, educational seminars, celebrities, and fun filled special events, bring the whole family – there will be something for everyone! Spend the day exploring the products from every major firearm company in the country, book the hunt of a lifetime in our exclusive outfitter section, and view priceless collections of firearms in our gun collector area.… [Read more]

Filed Under: The BK Dame Says Tagged With: Gun Control, National Rifle Association, NRA

Just what is going on?

April 20, 2013 by Flower Child 1 Comment

Richie Havens’ cover of “What’s Going On” is this week’s “Say It In Song” pick. Some of us feel it helps to have a moment of reflection and quiet contemplation when things appear to have gone crazy. The week brought a vote by the House of Representatives to invade citizens’ privacy on the one end, and a win by the National Rifle Association against all voices in support of sane gun control legislation on the other.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Say It In Song Tagged With: Greece, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, NRA, Richie Havens, Social Unrest, Workers Rights

Consequences: We Will Not Forget

April 19, 2013 by Mike Scourby 4 Comments

The last couple of days have been difficult for many Americans, especially those who have either lost a loved one or know someone who has been affected by gun violence. We watched as the United States Senate failed to pass background check legislation that could have helped curb the death, human destruction and financial costs of the one million plus men, women and children who have been senselessly killed by guns since 1968.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Gabrielle Giffords, Gun Control, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, NRA, Special Interests

Putting Politics Before the Common Good

April 18, 2013 by Brooklyn Dame 5 Comments

Senators who voted for and against gun control

Four Democrats helped kill the gun reform legislation supported by nearly 90% of the American public yesterday in a 54-46 vote. Those Democratic Senators who voted against the Toomey-Manchin bill were: Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Max Baucus of Montana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. Senator Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, voted against the bill but that was for ‘procedural reasons’ in that in order to re-introduce the bill at a later date, as leader of the House he is required by rule to vote against it.… [Read more]

Filed Under: The BK Dame Says Tagged With: Gabrielle Giffords, Gun Control, Harry Reid, NRA, President Obama, US Senate

Gun Control Vote Today: Will Senate Step Up?

April 17, 2013 by Brooklyn Dame 4 Comments

After countless gun-related tragedies which include a massacre at an elementary school, the US Senate has arrived at a day of reckoning.

Today at 4pm ET, the senators are expected to vote on a gun control background check bill that would expand background checks to more gun purchasers, increase aid for school safety and strengthen existing gun trafficking laws.… [Read more]

Filed Under: The BK Dame Says Tagged With: Gabrielle Giffords, Gun Control, John McCain, National Rifle Association, NRA

Senate arrives at bipartisan gun background check agreement

April 11, 2013 by Brooklyn Dame 2 Comments

Yesterday, after much intense debate, the Senate struck a deal to expanding background checks for gun buyers. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA), both of whom are strong traditional allies of the National Rifle Association, revealed a compromise to close the gun show loophole.

According to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence:

“Unfortunately, current federal law requires criminal background checks only for guns sold through licensed firearm dealers, which account for just 60% of all gun sales in the United States.… [Read more]

Filed Under: The BK Dame Says Tagged With: Gun Show Loophole, Joe Arpaio, Morning Joe, MSNBC, National Rifle Association, NRA, Pat Toomey, Second Amendment

What’s Changed in America? Then and Now

April 5, 2013 by Mike Scourby 5 Comments

“And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

I can remember April 4, 1968 as though it were yesterday. … [Read more]

Filed Under: Transcending Borders Tagged With: Gun Control, Kim Jong Un, Martin Luther King Jr., National Rifle Association, North Korea, NRA, Robert Kennedy, Vietnam War

Strange bedfellows for “firearms freedom”

April 1, 2013 by Charlie Meyer Leave a Comment

In the United Nations despised by many conservatives, a strange thing happened on the way to the General Assembly by Manhattan’s East River last week. The international treaty on reducing the unfettered flow of arms the National Rifle Association and its paid shills on the GOP side of the aisle in Congress are fighting tooth and nail found the gun lobby odd new allies in the international body.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: George W. Bush, Gun Trafficking, Iran, National Rifle Association, North Korea, NRA, Syria, Treaties, United Nations, United States

No Gun Control = Blood on Their Hands

March 21, 2013 by Mike Scourby 1 Comment

On December 14, 2012, 26 lives were lost in one of the most horrendous acts of terrorism America has had to endure. The terrorist was not of a different nationality, nor did he speak with a foreign accent or have a ‘different sounding’ name, he was a home-grown, middle-class suburban white kid. He did not strap on a bomb and blow himself up or detonate a truck bomb.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Social Change Tagged With: Assault weapons ban, Bushmaster, Domestic Terrorism, Gun Control, National Rifle Association, Newtown School Massacre, NRA, Sandy Hook

Negroes? With GUNS? RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

February 25, 2013 by Bill Schmalfeldt - Satire for the People Leave a Comment

Bill Schmalfeldt was otherwise occupied this week having his foot surgically removed from the descending colon of a wingnut lawbreaker. So this week, his space is occupied by a guest columnist.

by Lester Smelgerson
Public Affairs Spokesman
Howard County, Maryland, Tea Party Splinter Group
That Splintered from Real Tea Party Upon Learning
Actual Tea Party is a Tool of the Left Being Used
to Make People Hate Conservatives

Our worst nightmares are coming true.… [Read more]

Filed Under: WTLF*?!? Tagged With: Gun Control, NRA, Racism, Satire, Stereotypes

A Special Message from Wayne LaPierre

February 15, 2013 by Joe Guardino 2 Comments

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Hello, this is Wayne LaPierre here. Many of you have read my Stand and Fight Op-Ed in the Daily Caller this week (Happy Belated Valentine’s Day as well). I thought I’d take this time to explain to you, Borderless News and Views Readers, what we at the National Rifle Association are doing to further protect yourself and your family from our nation’s own imminent demise.… [Read more]

Filed Under: WTLF*?!? Tagged With: National Rifle Association, NRA, Ted Nugent, Wayne LaPierre

Legendary Sniper and Pal Take Marine with PTSD to Gun Range. What Could Go Wrong?

February 4, 2013 by Bill Schmalfeldt - Satire for the People 2 Comments

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With all the talk about guns and mental health, and the post-traumatic stress syndrome of vets from Iraq and Afghanistan, what better idea could one have than to grab your neighbor and take a homecoming Marine who has psychological problems out to a gun range and put a weapon in his hands.

What could possibly go wrong?… [Read more]

Filed Under: WTLF*?!? Tagged With: Chris Kyle, Mental Health, National Rifle Association, NRA, PTSD, Sniper

The Fake Tough Guys of the Gun Lobby

January 30, 2013 by Bill Rice 5 Comments

“Dirty” Harry Callahan had his .44 Magnum while James Bond preferred the sleeker Walther PPK. John Rambo and Tony Montana preferred larger automatics—the M60 E3 and M16 respectively. Omar Little and Ash Williams touted shotguns. And countless other action icons wield some type of Glock as their go-to firearm.

For decades now, possessing the bigger and badder gun has been a sign of toughness in American culture, most often associated with “manliness.” Real men not only own guns, they own the biggest, most effective ones; they master their uses; they fetishize them.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Gun Control, Mental Health, National Rifle Association, NRA

How Do You Close Pandora’s Box Once It’s Opened?

January 20, 2013 by Barbara Broido and Jeffrey R. Broido 2 Comments

In ancient Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. And, like Eve, the first woman in the much more recently written Judeo-Christian mythos, Pandora was responsible for changing the world.

Eve ate her apple, having been prompted by a serpent, and Pandora opened her pithos, a large, ancient Greek earthenware storage vessel, having been prompted by her own curiosity.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Art-itorials Tagged With: assault weapons, Bushmaster XM-15, Gun Control, National Rifle Association, NRA, Pandora's Box, Tylenol tampering in 1982, TYMURS

Ask Mrs. Vera: The NRA’s Reaction to the New York State Gun Control Legislation

January 19, 2013 by Mrs. Vera Newman 1 Comment

Dear Mrs. Vera,

What do you think of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) characterization of the brand new gun control legislation in New York State as “draconian?”

Dr. Dudley Damocles, Des Moines

Dear Dr. Doomoines,

Thank you for your etymologically adjectivalicious inquiry. I am assuming that this legislation refers to neither flame-throwers and fire breathing dragons, nor to Ann Coulter and whatever local Moat Builder’s Permits, Regulations and Statutes that may apply.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Lifestyle & Op-Ed Tagged With: Governor Andrew Cuomo, Gun Control, National Rifle Association, New York State, NRA

The Fallacy of ‘Gun Appreciation Day’

January 18, 2013 by Charlie Meyer 1 Comment

Times and nations change. It’s 2013, not 1776. We don’t have bands of ‘angry Indians’ cresting the hill with feathers, war paint, and bows and arrows, wanting their land back. We broke our treaties and screwed them a couple of centuries back. The South will not “rise again” to get America back for the so-called “War of Northern Aggression.” We’re still free.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Gun Appreciation Day, Gun Control, Martin Luther King Jr., NRA, Sarah Palin, Supreme Court, Wayne LaPierre

Reasonableness on the issue of Gun Control: What’s Your Choice?

January 18, 2013 by Mike Scourby Leave a Comment

“The Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a possible tyrannical national government. Now that the federal government has stealth bombers and nuclear weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose.” ~ Judge Robert Bork

I have been listening to the pro gun supporters and all their feeble reasons as to why they think the United States government does not have the right to infringe on an individual’s right to bear arms.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Domestic Terrorism, Gun Control, National Rifle Association, NRA, Second Amendment

Are Small Arms Really the Antidote to a Tyrannical Government?

January 16, 2013 by Bill Rice 3 Comments

Gun ownership is the only thing that stands between us innocent citizens and a government with the potential to turn tyrannical at any moment—or so the gun lobby would have you believe.

As the argument usually goes, the citizenry needs access to semi-automatic and automatic weapons in order to protect itself if the government decides to violently subjugate its own people.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Federalist Papers, Government, Gun Control, NATO, NRA, Second Amendment

Gun Crazy America

January 11, 2013 by Charlie Meyer Leave a Comment

The debate over gun control is nothing new. The persistence of the Second Amendment, from back before there were real cowboys and indians, affirms the excessive ideological Viagra-Oxycontin titration in the national politic. Governed from the extremes, reasonable firearms control seems to defy finding compromise that works. We’ve become a global bad joke.

The maternal adage of “It’s all fun until someone gets hurt” outlived my mother, and will outlast yours, if you are fortunate to still have her around. … [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Finland, Gun Control, Militia, Newtown shooting, NRA