Tag: Gun Contol

I missed the debate last night but saw a snippet of Beto O’Rourke’s reply to removing AR-15 and AK-47s and similar weapons from America’s civilian arsenal. And he followed up with a related tweet…and got some push back. See it here: I am not surprised that there are vocal and…

And it’s not funny. Last June I took Citizen Action Wisconsin to task for a photo that depicted former Governor Scott Walker and former State Senator Leah Vukmir behind a target with an arrow sticking out of it. Now the NRA has taken a similar tack in an article and…

After the Las Vegas shooting (October 1, 2017), everyone agreed that bump stocks should be outlawed. I reminded everyone on February 20, 2018 that they hadn’t been banned yet. Now we are past a year later and they still haven’t been banned. Come on Washington. This is a very simple…

Following the latest hate crime, domestic terrorist attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh that has left at least ten dead as of this writing and numerous other people wounded…our president suggested that THEY bring back the death penalty, THEY toughen laws, THEY, THEY, THEY…something has to be done. You’re the…

This past week found Middleton Wisconsin, an upscale suburb of Madison, in the national spotlight following a mass shooting at a local software company. In this case the shooter was an employee who wounded several other employees and who died of gunshot wounds after a shoot out with police. As…

There a number of things that would help prevent mass shootings similar to those repeatedly experienced in the United States. And no, nothing will eliminate all gun violence, but something needs to be done to make Americans feel safer in public places…not just schools. First, comprehensive background checks of all…

Then fix it. Fix it. You actually have the power and authority to do something about this. Unlike most of the other wimps in the Republican Party you don’t need to be beholden to the Big Insurance Companies or Big Pharma. Make sure every American has affordable health care including…

Two students dead, 12 other people wounded in Kentucky high school shooting. A 15-year-old boy armed with a handgun allegedly walked into a rural high school in Kentucky and opened fire on his classmates early Tuesday, authorities said, killing two students and wounding a dozen other people before being stopped…

my Senate confirmation was put on hold. Dean L. Winslow, a retired Air Force colonel and flight surgeon, is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and Trump nominee for DOD assistant secretary of defense for health affairs said: “I’d also like to . . . just say how insane…

After the initial reaction from just about everyone including reportedly the NRA, to ban bump stocks, now we are being told that all of us uninformed gun haters don’t know diddly. You don’t need a bump stock to convert your semi-automatic rifle into an automatic weapon…you can do it with…