gun rights
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Missouri City Official Facing Charges After ‘Teasing’ Co-Worker With Gun
So a city official walks into work one day and allegedly pumps a shotgun toward his “liberal” co-worker. When the cops come a-calling (because, you know, what the entire fuck), he claims he was just “teasing” the female clerk. I kid you not. This is not a joke. According to the Associated Press, Poplar Bluff,…
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Idiot Gun Owner Shoots Himself and Wife in Church While Speaking About His Right to Have a Gun in Church
In today’s “What Would Jesus Do?” news, a Tennessee man shot himself in church while trying to advocate for his right to bring guns to church. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, the incident occurred at the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains, Tenn., after an 80-year-old man pulled out his gun during a…
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Will White Identity Politics Prevail on Tuesday? Conservatives Use Racist, Anti-Immigrant Messages to Get Out the Vote
To paraphrase The Root’s editor-in-chief, Danielle Belton, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, rife with xenophobia, sexism and racism, made a cattle call of what previous conservative leaders had merely dog-whistled. Now, as select state and local races across the country draw to a close this Tuesday (among them, Virginia’s hotly contested gubernatorial race), conservatives around the…
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Will the Va. Shooting Sway the GOP on Gun Violence?
Just after 7 on Wednesday morning in the all-American Washington, D.C., suburb of Alexandria, Va., GOP congressional members were on a ball field practicing. The annual Democrats-vs.-Republicans baseball game was a day away, and the participants were just wrapping up a successful workout. Nobody suspected a mass shooting. Rep. Jeff Duncan, a Republican from South…
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NRA Staffer Accidentally Shoots Himself at Gun Organization’s Va. Museum
According to the National Rifle Association, “Guns don’t kill people.” But, as one of its staffers can attest, they sure do shoot people. Which is what happened Friday when an employee of a museum representing the nation’s largest gun-rights organization accidentally shot himself. USA Today reports that an unnamed staffer at the National Firearms Museum,…