I just got done watching the NRA press conference and all I can do is shake my head. The first thing I would like to know is why does this group have the power they do? The NRA only has 4 million members. That’s almost 1/2 of what MoveOn.org has, yet they have so much […]
This is troubling to new levels: An Indiana man convicted of setting fire to a mosque in Ohio told a judge on Wednesday that he committed the crimes because Fox News and conservative talk radio had convinced him that “most Muslims are terrorists.” Randolph Linn, 52, accepted a plea deal in which he pled guilty […]
They are too idiotic to realize it, but it’s the pro-gun idiots out there that are pushing our nation to tougher firearms control. Take this story out of Salt Lake City: A 6th grade student brought an unloaded handgun to West Kearns Elementary School Monday. The 11-year-old boy told other students his parents encouraged him […]
We have been hearing so many ideas about what to do following the deadly rampage in Newtown, Connecticut last week. Ideas range from gun control to better handling of mental health. Good! This is the discussion we need to have. I want to tackle one part of this debate right now – gun control. I […]
Yesterday David Gregory said on Meet the Press that all 31 pro-gun rights senators refused to come on the show. On Friday, following the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA hid their Facebook page. Why are these people in hiding and not out defending what they believe in? Do they realize that they are only […]
Here’s a tragic story out of Pennsylvania (h/t Amato): A 7-year-old boy died on Saturday when he was shot by his father in an apparent accident outside a Mercer County gun shop, state police said. Joseph V. Loughrey, 44, was getting into his truck holding a .9mm Taurus handgun when it discharged. The bullet struck […]
Apparently Oklahoma City schools have a rule dating back to 2005 that prevents students from wearing shirts that don’t support the state’s collegiate teams: Cooper Barton, 5, comes from a family of Michigan fans. He went to school wearing a maize and blue shirt with “The Big House,” the nickname for Michigan’s 114,000-seat stadium, written […]
America has 5% of the world’s population, 25% of the world’s prison population and owns 50% of the world’s guns.Thinking of those numbers makes the following two stories seem almost the norm: Photo of Boy With Gun Leads To Charges For Dad STOCKTON, Calif. – The father of a 6-year-old Northern California boy seen posing […]
I haven’t dove into the Chick-fil-A controversy yet, mainly because there has been enough other stories out there that need covering. But I think it does deserve mentioning that I have to back up Chick-fil-A against Rahm Emanuel and Chicago when it comes to wanting to build a store in The Windy City. Think back […]
Without the precogs: Crime fighters have long used brains and brawn, but now a new kind of technology known as “predictive policing” promises to make them more efficient. A growing number of law enforcement agencies, in the US and elsewhere, have been adopting software tools with predictive analytics, based on algorithms that aim to predict […]