Yee-Haw!
Bullets are in demand as the nation's appetite for firearms has soared. U.S. gun sales are up since the 2008 presidential election, during which the National Rifle Assn. poured millions of dollars into advertisements suggesting that Democrat Barack Obama would move to restrict gun sales if elected.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-ammo30-2009aug30,0,2720417.story
Monday, August 31, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Armed Protesters At Townhall Meetings
Like wow. Just when you thought things couldn't possibly get uglier...
From today's Democracy Now...(www.democracynow.org)
Armed Protesters Attend Anti-Obama Rally in Phoenix
In news from this country, gun control advocates have expressed concern over the growing number of armed protesters attending town hall meetings and speeches by President Obama. On Monday, police in Phoenix reported at least a dozen protesters were carrying arms near a convention hall where President Obama spoke. At least one man had an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle slung over his shoulder. Police made no arrests, citing a state law that allows people to carry unconcealed guns. On August 11, police arrested a man for having a loaded, unlicensed gun in his car near a New Hampshire school where Obama later held a healthcare forum. In a separate incident, another man outside that same event displayed a gun in a holster on his leg. Protesters also brought guns to recent town hall meetings on healthcare in Tennessee and Arizona. On Monday, Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews and defended the right of protesters to be armed.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Supremacy Crimes
Whenever i get into conversations about the pandemic of suicidal gunmen in this country, i always cite this article by Gloria Steinem written shortly after Columbine ten years ago. I just found an online version of it to share...
"These "senseless" killings begin to seem less mysterious when you consider that they were committed disproportionately by white, non-poor males, the group most likely to become hooked on the drug of superiority. It's a drug pushed by a male-dominant culture that presents dominance as a natural right; a racist hierarchy that falsely elevates whiteness; a materialist society that equates superiority with possessions, and a homophobic one that empowers only one form of sexuality."
http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0106/010618.htm
"These "senseless" killings begin to seem less mysterious when you consider that they were committed disproportionately by white, non-poor males, the group most likely to become hooked on the drug of superiority. It's a drug pushed by a male-dominant culture that presents dominance as a natural right; a racist hierarchy that falsely elevates whiteness; a materialist society that equates superiority with possessions, and a homophobic one that empowers only one form of sexuality."
http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0106/010618.htm
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Another lonely desperate soul kills a bunch of strangers
PITTSBURGH - A man carrying a duffel bag walked into a rear door of the L.A. Fitness center in the suburb of Collier last night and opened fire, killing four or five people and wounding as many as 11 more.
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