Tag Archives: gun control

Gun Freedom

Gun freedom stems from the need to repress the freedom of the others. – James Steele – unrepentant counterfeiter

Time To Talk

After the Sandy Hook shooting several right-wing TV pundits admonished the call for a national dialogue on gun control. There was no mention of guns during the presidential debates between President Obama and Mitt Romney the GOP challenger. When Bob Costas commented on a KC football player shooting his girlfriend and then himself, the NRA […]

Their Man Romney

GOP candidate Mitt Romney appeared on NBC to say the following about the Aurora shooter; “This person shouldn’t have had any kind of weapons and bombs and other devices and it was illegal for him to have many of those things already. But he had them. And so we can sometimes hope that just changing […]

Charlton Heston “My Cold DEAD Hands” NRA Speech

The movie actor Charlton Heston was an active progressive throughout the 50s and 60s. He marched against segregation and even opposed the Vietnam War, but the star of TOUCH OF EVIL reversed his beliefs in the 80s saying, “I didn’t change. The Democratic party changed.” By the 90s Heston’s swing to the right had reached […]

Bang Bang Batman

On July 31, 1966 Charles Whitman typed out a suicide note in his Austin, Texas home. The following is an excerpt from that letter; “I do not quite understand what it is that compels me to type this letter. Perhaps it is to leave some vague reason for the actions I have recently performed. I […]