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States with weakest gun laws lead in deaths, study shows

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 18:06 — Dave Culver
  • As if further proof were necessary; here's some simple facts supporting strict gun laws. Time to clean up our act folks, before we have a lot more 'cold dead hands'.
  • Eight of the states with the highest levels of gun violence are among the 25 with the weakest gun laws, a recent report finds.
  • GOP and NRA Protect Domestic Violence Abusers

Ian Simpson, Reuters

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4/3/13 | Many states with the weakest firearms laws have the highest rates of gun-related homicides and suicides, according to a study released on Wednesday by a liberal think tank.

Alaska had the most gun deaths, with 20.28 deaths per 100,000 people in 2010, twice the national average, the analysis by the Center for American Progress showed.

Louisiana and Montana, which followed with 19.06 and 16.58 deaths per 100,000 people, respectively, were among the 10 states with the weakest gun laws, according to the study, the latest to link gun laws to firearm deaths.

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GOP and NRA Protect Domestic Violence Abusers, David Sirota, Salon

As president Obama visits Colorado to discuss guns, state GOP launches fight to protect batterers' gun rights.

 

 
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Film shows challenges of female veterans

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 14:44 — Dave Culver

  • Sue Downes, who served as a driver and gunner in Afghanistan, had both legs amputated below the knee after her Humvee hit landmines in 2005.
  • Stand with anti-war veteran Mike Prysner against right-wing attacks!

Tom Wilemon, The Tennessean 

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Apr. 14, 2013 | Sue Downes, the first female double amputee from the war in Afghanistan, will drive five hours from the small town where she lives in East Tennessee so she can share stories with other female veterans on Monday during the screening of a documentary.

She is one of the stars of “Service: When Women Come Marching Home.” The documentary chronicles eight veterans and the challenges they face — both physical and invisible. Fitted with prosthetics and able to fully walk, Downes said she is resilient but feels isolated living in her hometown of New Tazewell.

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Stand with anti-war veteran Mike Prysner against right-wing attacks! March Forward!

  • Former S. Carolina GOP Exec. Dir. launches fascist attack via Twitter
  • Sign the petition: I stand with Mike Prysner and other veterans and active-duty service members who are taking a stand against war and occupation.

 

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Two Obamas, Two Classes Of Children

Sat, 04/13/2013 - 15:01 — Dave Culver

  • Unless the American people come to realize that a president must be subject to the rule of law and our Constitution, our statutes and treaties, every succeeding president will push the deficit-financed lawlessness further until the inevitable blowback day of reckoning. That is the fate of all empires.
  • A Culture That Condones The Killing Of Children And Teaches Children To Kill

Ralph Nader, Nader.org

The lifeless bodies of Afghan children lay on the ground before their funeral ceremony, after a NATO airstrike killed several Afghan civilians, including ten children - Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Naimatullah Karyab)

13 April, 2013 | An Associated Press photograph brought the horror of little children lying dead outside of their home to an American Audience. At least 10 Afghan children and some of their mothers were struck down by an airstrike on their extended family household by order of President Barack Obama. He probably decided on what his aides describe as the routine weekly “Terror Tuesday” at the White House. On that day, Mr. Obama typically receives the advice about which “militants” should live or die thousands of miles away from drones or aircraft. Even if households far from war zones are often destroyed in clear violation of the laws of war, the president is not deterred.

These Obama airstrikes are launched knowing that very often there is “collateral damage,” that is a form of “so sorry terrorism.” How can the president explain the vaporization of a dozen pre-teen Afghan boys collecting firewood for their families on a hillside? The local spotter-informants must have been disoriented by all those $100 bills in rewards. Imagine a direct strike killing and injuring scores of people in a funeral procession following a previous fatal strike that was the occasion of this processional mourning. Remember the December 2009 Obama strike on an alleged al-Qaida training camp in Yemen, using tomahawk missiles and – get this – cluster bombs, that killed 14 women and 21 children. Again and again “so sorry terrorism” ravages family households far from the battlefields.

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A Culture That Condones The Killing Of Children And Teaches Children To Kill, Lucinda Marshall, Common Dreams

  • Sandy Hook did not happen because of a lone, disturbed young man and it is not an isolated incident. It is an epidemic and we are all to blame. And today (and tomorrow and every day after that) is the time to confront this self-inflicted tragedy.
  • The US Military Approves Bombing Children

 

 

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Your Guide to the Gun Debate

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 17:53 — Dave Culver

  • Myths & Facts About Background Checks
  • Connecticut Passes Nation's Strictest Gun Law In Wake Of Sandy Hook Massacre

Progress Report, ThinkProgress

April 11, 2013 | This morning, the Senate took one of its most bipartisan major votes in years when senators voted 68-31 to begin debating a package of gun violence prevention measures. Despite being supported by more than 90 percent of all Americans and nearly as many gun-owning Americans, the National Rifle Association’s implacable opposition to common sense solutions has rendered expanded background checks controversial in Congress.

Here’s your ThinkProgress guide to the myths and facts around the policy at the center of the Senate gun violence prevention bill.

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Connecticut Passes Nation's Strictest Gun Law In Wake Of Sandy Hook Massacre, Christina Wilkie, Huffington Post

 

 

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Taylor Jones | Sammy Get Your Gun / media.cagle.com

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 16:47 — Dave Culver

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Ex-CNN Reporter: I Received Orders to Manipulate News to Demonize Syria and Iran

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 16:21 — Dave Culver
  • She revealed that the scenario used before launching the war on Iraq is being prepared to be repeated where Iran and Syria are now being subject to constant 'demonization'.
  • Apparently, MSNBC and Faux got the same orders.
  • The Koch brothers’ media investment

H. Said, SANA

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March 30, 2013 | Ex-CNN reporter Amber Lyon revealed that during her work for the channel she received orders to send false news and exclude some others which the US administration did not favor with the aim to create a public opinion in favor of launching an aggression on Iran and Syria.

Lyon was quoted by the Slovak main news website as saying that the mainstream US media outlets intentionally work to create a propaganda against Iran to garner public opinion's support for a military invasion against it.

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The Koch brothers’ media investment, Sasha Chavkin, Columbia Journalism Review

 

 
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