Two stories in two weeks of the police shooting the wrong person. Both stories have one thing in common.
An interesting story in our local news got me thinking this on this Independence Day, the serious disconnect people have with severity.
As our new week enters it's second day, America awakes to yet another story of a person entering a public place and opening fire.
Numerouns people in our country want to focus on violent video games as being the cause of our recent spike in mass shootings, but they ignore the global reach of this medium.
Once the Republicans took control of the state, the craziness came out. The Ohio House of Representatives approved two bills on Wednesday that would give Ohioans more rights to carry concealed weapons, including one that allows people to carry a gun into a bar. The latter bill allows Ohioans who have a concealed-carry permit to […]
The rhetorical violence of the right continues: Members of the various Tea Party, 9/12, and other freedom-oriented folks in the Atlanta area will be assembling in the vicinity of Georgia State Capitol this coming Wednesday afternoon at 4 pm. We’ll be providing balance to the ravings of the passengers aboard the SEIU Thugbus, which is […]
FOX News has an article questioning the violence of video games and how they can affect people: In the new video game Bulletstorm due February 22, players are rewarded for shooting enemies in the private parts (such as the buttocks). There’s an excess of profanity, of course, including frequent use of F-words. And Bulletstorm is […]
The AP has taken a closer look at the recent rampage of gun violence in this country: They had more in common than unleashing carnage _ nearly every gunman in this monthlong series of mass killings was legally entitled to fire his weapons. So what does that say about the state of gun control laws […]
I have been bringing up the deafening silence on the campaign trail about the increased gun violence in our country. Obama addressed the problem this weekend by showing how close to home it hit for him: At a town hall last night, Obama revealed that one of his top volunteers in Iowa was gunned down […]
Well more so on her campaign – and they deserve it. There has been some serious problems, and I am not talking about Bill. Having said that, I need to point out that this really makes me happy to hear: On the eve of Wisconsin’s Democratic primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton vowed to call a White […]