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While Michigan Republicans dismantle the middle class, Democrats are trying to actually solve problems

By on May 10, 2013 in Gun Control, Michigan Democrats, Michigan Republicans, War on Women

Actions speak louder than words

As Michigan Republicans continue their corporatist agenda of eviscerating the middle class, destroying unions, harming public employees and taking women’s rights back to the middle of the last century, Michigan Democrats are proposing important pieces of legislation that solve actual problems.

The first comes from Representatives Jim Townsend, Vicki Barnett, and Andy Schor. They are introducing a package of legislation designed to reduce gun violence in our state and to increase public safety. A separate package of bills will be introduced by State Representatives Gretchen Driskell, Jeff Irwin, Adam Zemke and state Senator Rebekah Warren that will reverse some of the restrictions Republicans have put on women’s health care, educate women about health care options, support rape survivors and address health care inequities women face.

Details after the jump.


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Test of elementary school readiness for gun attack narrowly avoids going horribly wrong

By on May 2, 2013 in Gun Control

Thank heavens they weren’t “ready”

Out in Halfway, Oregon, a group of teachers were meeting for an in-service training. Suddenly, two masked gunmen burst into the room and began firing handguns at the teachers, administrators, and trainers.

Click through to find out how this school narrowly avoided an unintended tragedy.


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Republicans in Congress bust Obama admin for buying up all the danged bullets, legislation has been introduced

By on April 29, 2013 in Bwahahahahaha, Gun Control

Has Conan O’Brien gone to work writing talking points for Congress???

You know how all those gun shops are running out of ammo to buy? Well, two Republicans in Congress have figured out why: Obama is buying it all.

No, seriously.

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It’s not just the NRA: Gun owners are a potent political force that shouldn’t be underestimated

By on April 20, 2013 in Gun Control

If you die of a gunshot in the United States, the person most likely to have fired that gun is you.

A modest expansion of background checks was defeated in the Senate just a few days ago — though it seems like a childhood memory after the anxiety dream that was this week.

Commentators pointed out that nearly all polls show around 90% of Americans and majorities of even NRA members support universal background checks, an even more strict version of the policy that was defeated.

Gun owners often dispute these polls, but they should be proud of them. It shows they have political power almost unrivaled in the United States.…


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A year later and Ted Nugent is still alive, not in jail and thinks he’s Rosa Parks

By on April 17, 2013 in Bwahahahahaha, Gun Control

Meanwhile Rosa Parks is turning in her grave

You might remember last year about this time Ted Nugent was on the stump, campaigning for billionaire Mitt Romney. At the time, he said “[I]f you want more of those kinds of evil, anti-American people in the Supreme Court then don’t get involved and let Obama take office again. Because I’ll tell you this right now, if Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

Well, it’s a year later and this misogynistic clown is still free to roam the streets and pollute our airways. This year, he’s back on the road with his band in his “Ted Nugent Black Power 2013″ tour.

Click through for the audio of Nugent comparing himself to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.


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Art and artists against guns and gun violence: GunShowGallery.com

By on April 9, 2013 in Gun Control

Art is more powerful than violence in the long term

Earlier this month, Van Jones’ group Rebuild America announced a new project that has artists creating amazing art to fight back against gun violence and those that would stand in the way of progress on controlling the proliferation of guns, especially assault-style weapons, in America. The project, called GunShowGallery.com is worth checking out.

Images and links after the jump.


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Michigan GOP responds to sensible gun control proposals with bills to make enforcing federal laws a felony

By on April 3, 2013 in Gun Control, Michigan Republicans, Things That Make You Go Hmmm

What’s next? Secession?

Since the Newtown Massacre, there have been thousands of additional gun-related deaths in this country. It stimulated a national debate with a heighted push for sensible gun regulation. In response to this debate, Michigan Republicans have introduced legislation that would make it a felony to enforce any federal laws that attempt to regulate gun ownership.

Details after the jump.


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Former Tucson, Arizona mayoral candidate raising money to give away free shotguns in high-crime areas

By on March 27, 2013 in Gun Control, LOLGOP

Oh, for the love of Goddess…

If you don’t believe the headline of this post, I really don’t blame you. I myself was skeptical until I clicked the link to the Arizona Daily Star article and was forced to confront the unfortunate fact that there are actually people this stupid, this unbelievably moronic roaming the earth.

But there it was, in black and white: “Ex-Tucson mayoral hopeful McClusky plans free shotguns for high-crime areas”.

All the facepalming details after the jump.


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Michigan GOP introduce law to let teachers carry guns in class, tea party group to give free classes

By on February 21, 2013 in Gun Control, Michigan Republicans

Because with only 1,565,390 students in class, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

It’s hard to say which the most freakish element of this story is. Is it that some Michigan Republicans want to allow concealed weapons to be carried in our children’s classrooms? Or is it that a tea party PAC is offering free gun classes to get teachers trained so that they can?

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Sign the Petition: Support the new Assault Weapons Ban

By on February 14, 2013 in Gun Control

The Second Amendment wasn’t intended to include gun fetishists

One of the most disingenuous claims by the gun fetishists lobby is that assault weapons are protected by the Second Amendment. This, of course, is not true. The Second Amendment was never intended to allow for the unregulated promulgation of weaponry throughout our country and our communities. That is, in fact, the reason the phrase “well regulated militia” is part of it. What is, to me, the most galling are the laughable justifications they use to defend their bizarre obsession with owning and shooting weapons that so closely resemble those used by our military men and women.

But, we are a rational society and the time when a tiny minority of people who get a thrill out of owning and shooting military-style weapons get to make all of the decisions is coming to an end. They may call themselves “hobbyists”. They may say that their desire to pretend to be a soldier is protected by the constitution. But when the rest of us watch our fellow citizens, including small children, mowed down by weapons with high-capacity magazines, we know it’s time for the adults to start putting some limits down.

One of those limits is to replace the Assault Weapons Ban that expired 2004 with a new, strengthened version. Senator Diane Feinstein has introduced such legislation. Please sign the Democracy for America petition, urging members of Congress to pass it.

More after the jump.


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