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Archives: Guns
Not the Onion: Shooting Range raises Age Limit to 12 after 9-year-old girl Kills Instructor with Uzi
CBS New York buries the lead: "A 9-year-old New Jersey girl accidentally killed an Arizona shooting instructor as he was showing her how to use an automatic Uzi, authorities said Tuesday. CBS…
Vegas ‘Revolution’ Shooters inspired by Tea Party Law allowing Shooting of Police
Vegas cop killers 'had pro-gun militia links' (via AFP) A gun-toting couple possibly linked to anti-government militias killed two US cops execution-style and left a swastika on the bodies, in America's latest…
Georgia Courthouse is shot up by Sovereign Citizen after GOP backs Bundy, Open Carry
By Juan Cole That didn't take long. The Georgia GOP rushed into law an 'open carry' provision in April allowing people to tote around guns in bars and churches (apparently these are…
“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.”
"Joe the Plumber": "Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights." (via The Political Carnival) "Joe the Plumber" (Sam Wurzelbacher, the not-plumber), wrote the following in response to the grieving parents of…
Rep. Louie Gohmert: Constitution only fit for Americans who ‘cling to God and guns’
Louie Gohmert: Constitution only protects Americans who ‘cling to God and guns’ (via Raw Story ) Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) recently asserted that the U.S. Constitution only applied to people “who cling…