With Gun Metaphors Like These . . .

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Sports writers have a lot more leeway than reporters covering any other topic. They're about as likely to provide straight reporting as a gay man is to masturbate to a picture of Marissa Miller....

Have You Noticed That The Media Turns Off Comments for Gun-Related Stories?

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Gun owners are a fairly vocal group of people. Well, some of them are. And the ones that are, really are. When The Huffington Post takes a proverbial swing at gun owners' rights (or...

How Not To Report a Gun-Related Story: Iowa’s New Domestic Abuse Gun Confiscation Law

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According to KIMT reporter Natalie Tendall's official bio, "she loved to play news reporter as a child." Judging from her article Domestic Abuser Gun Bill Reaction, she's still playing at being one now. Tendall...

That Didn’t Take Long: Tea Party “Debate” Focuses on Guns

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Counterpunch columnist Christopher Ketchum confounds critics with an anti-Tea Party polemic that attempts to wrest Second Amendment rights from the protest group's agenda---while continuing the media meme that they're all trigger-happy madmen (and women)....

Question of the Day: Are Armed Teachers the Answer to Spree Shooters?

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The "gun debate" has two sides. On one side, gun control advocates believe that eliminating firearms from society (legal or illegal) makes it safer ("guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people"). On...

Question of the Day: Do Guns Have To Be So Macho?

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Earlier this morning, I posted on a Huffington Post polemic by ex-federal judge H. Lee Sarokin. The New Jersey native painted gun owners as violent, pig-ignorant southerners. The portrait was unfair. Prima facie. It...

Romney: Palin is Armed and Dangerous

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Ha! We SO knew that! Well, actually, not exactly. The only gun we can positively identify as belonging to Republican ex-Governor and non-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the Henry Repeating Arms "Big Boy," which...

UK Rapper Plays the “Gun Crime Sucks” Card

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Don't get me wrong. A rapper who says guns are bad is better than a rapper who glamorizes them. But a rapper who says guns are bad and glamorizes himself for surviving guns is...

Shooting Times Celebrates 50 Years of Handgun Innovations

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It's hard to believe Shooting Times is about to pass the half century mark; I'd just turned zero when the mag was born. Bart Skelton marks the occasion with an article celebrating handgun innovation...

Canada Looks to Ditch Gun Registry

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In 1989, Marc Lépine entered Montreal University's École Polytechnique engineering school armed with a Ruger Mini-14 and murdered 14 people. Six years after the École Polytechnique Massacre (a.k.a. The Montreal Massacre), the Canadian parliament...

Christian Science Monitor: 2nd Amendment Encourages Terrorism

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The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) asks the right question about the recent McDonald Supreme Court case: "Do gun rights protect against tyranny?" And they quote the right person: Daniel Schmutter in a friend of...

YouTube “Guns Are Awesome” Video Approached 1m Views

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny9O7yAXK8g