Gun deaths and snake handling: Statistics show firearms are more deadly. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Several Slate readers are skeptical of yesterday’s article comparing snake-related deaths with gun-related deaths.
They singled out this line: “Having a gun in your home is far more dangerous than having a snake.” I didn’t provide data or a link to back up that statement. My readers want evidence. Watch: How the NRA Distorts the Gun Debate With Disinformation. Zimmerman Is Acquitted in Killing of Trayvon Martin. After three weeks of testimony, the six-woman jury rejected the prosecution’s contention that Mr.
Zimmerman had deliberately pursued Mr. Martin because he assumed the hoodie-clad teenager was a criminal and instigated the fight that led to his death. Mr. Zimmerman said he shot Mr. Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, in self-defense after the teenager knocked him to the ground, punched him and slammed his head repeatedly against the sidewalk. The jury, which had been sequestered since June 24, deliberated 16 hours and 20 minutes over two days. The case began in the small city of Sanford as a routine homicide but soon evolved into a civil rights cause examining racial profiling and its consequences — an issue barred from the courtroom — and setting off a broad discussion of race relations in America. Even President Obama weighed in a month after the shooting, expressing sympathy for Mr.
Laura Browder: Women's Gun Culture in America. We welcome a guest post today from Laura Browder, who has written about women and firearms in two books: When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans and Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America.
Dangerous Gun Myths. How the NRA Became an Organization for Aspiring Vigilantes (Part 1) Share The radical left, including the Black Panthers, also contributed to the rise of gun vigilante culture in the United States, a phenomenon that later shifted to the right.
(AP.) Three Ways Sensible Gun Control Could Have Prevented Aurora Shootings. Share Colorado shooter James Holmes was able to acquire large amounts of ammunition and rapid-fire weaponry despite his erratic behavior.
(AP Photo/Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool.) Our Moloch by Garry Wills. Few crimes are more harshly forbidden in the Old Testament than sacrifice to the god Moloch (for which see Leviticus 18.21, 20.1-5).
The sacrifice referred to was of living children consumed in the fires of offering to Moloch. Ever since then, worship of Moloch has been the sign of a deeply degraded culture. Ancient Romans justified the destruction of Carthage by noting that children were sacrificed to Moloch there. Milton represented Moloch as the first pagan god who joined Satan’s war on humankind: First Moloch, horrid king, besmear’d with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears, Though for the noise of Drums and Timbrels loud Their children’s cries unheard, that pass’d through fire To his grim idol. Read again those lines, with recent images seared into our brains—“besmeared with blood” and “parents’ tears.” Giffords and Husband Announce Campaign Against Gun Violence.
Former Representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark E.
Kelly, unveiled a new campaign against gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the shooting in a Tucson shopping center that killed six people and left Ms. Giffords critically injured. In an op-ed article published in USA Today, Ms. Murder in America. Michael Moore: Aurora Happened in America's Culture of Twitchy, Bloodthirsty Killers. July 24, 2012 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The Aurora Movie Theatre Shooting and American Gun Culture. Trayvon Martin and America’s Gun Laws. Just after seven-thirty on the morning of February 27th, a seventeen-year-old boy named T.
J. Lane walked into the cafeteria at Chardon High School, about thirty miles outside Cleveland. It was a Monday, and the cafeteria was filled with kids, some eating breakfast, some waiting for buses to drive them to programs at other schools, some packing up for gym class. NRA: A lobby for criminals. We’ve read the sickening script before.
Following virtually every mass shooting in the United States, the news media focuses briefly on the question of whether anything can be done to prevent such incidents in the future. Soon, a softly spoken “no” infiltrates the coverage, either out of sheer hopelessness or the certain knowledge that our elected officials are so firmly in the thrall of the gun lobby that they quiver in fear at the mere thought of contemplating even tepid measures advanced by gun control advocates in the wake of the latest atrocity. If the aftermath of Aurora (12 dead, 58 wounded) plays out as others of recent or fading memory — Tuscaloosa, two weeks ago (18 wounded), Tucson in 2011 (six dead, 14 wounded), Binghamton in 2009 (13 dead, four wounded), Ft. Aurora Shooter’s Gun Purchases Were Legal. Mitt Romney brushed off suggestions that the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting should renew a national conversation on gun control Wednesday, saying that it "was illegal" for accused Aurora shooter James Holmes to have the "kind of weapons and bombs and other devices" he used in his deadly attack.
Not exactly. Holmes legally purchased the weapons used in the attack, and legally bought thousands of rounds of ammunition online. One of the guns would have been illegal under the federal assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004. "The governor was clearly referring to the homemade bombs in the apartment," the aide told TPM.
Those bombs -- which did not kill anyone and were disabled by law enforcement -- would be illegal under a Colorado law that bans "incendiary devices," though reports indicate those devices were constructed from items weren't aren't illegal to obtain, like gasoline. "A lot of what this -- young man did was clearly against the law.