“I hope your dogs eat your face.” “You deserve to be raped. I want to be the one to do it.” “I’m going to hunt your family like you hunted that deer.” These gems and others like them have become nauseatingly familiar to me. Most people managed to hunt and shoot without ever being on … Read more
By Theresa Inacker New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy recently used his personal dislike for the Second Amendment as justification for closing New Jersey gun shops during a national emergency. Governor Murphy unilaterally decided that gun shops and NICS background checks are not essential, but liquor stores and garden centers are. When asked at a COVID-19 … Read more
By Meghan N. My entire childhood was filled with four irrational fears: bees, spontaneous house fires, drowning, and guns. Bees (and, honestly, any stinging insect) is easily explained as I stepped in a well-concealed underground nest when I was seven. Buh. No thank you. I still get the creeps from anything with a stinger. Harboring … Read more
You don’t have to know anything about guns to support (or finance) more limits on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. All you have to know is that you hate guns and the stupid people who own them. While defending his permit-to-purchase proposal, Bloomberg drew a confused analogy between requiring a permit … Read more
“If you feel that it is somehow at all appropriate to bring a gun to class (hint: it is not — this is absurd, antisocial, and frightening behavior), you are restricted to spending your time in class in my ‘second amendment zone’ a 3×3 taped square on the floor in the very back of the … Read more
An unidentified man (not pictured) ‘armed’ with only an umbrella prompted a three-hour lockdown of the East Carolina University campus in Greenville, North Carolina this morning. And no, it wasn’t a rifle-shaped umbrella. It was just an umbrella . . .
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