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Paul Lander is a TV comedy writer, award-winning columnist and producer. His humor pieces have appeared in MAD, American Bystander, Weekly Humorist, McSweeneys, National Lampoon, Robot Butt, Little Old Lady Blog, Humor Times, Humor Outcasts, Politipod, and mor... More »
By Martin H. Levinson According to the 2022 PDK poll of the public’s attitudes toward public schools, forty-five percent of Americans support arming teachers to prevent school shootings. Proponents say arming teachers would minimize deaths and deter potentia... More »
By Louis Greenstein “… a [June 3, 2022 CBS and YouGov] poll shows that 44% of Republicans believe mass shootings are ‘something we have to accept as part of a free society.’” My wife Penny and I live what you could call a charmed life. We’re semi-r... More »
By Martin H. Levinson * * * By Gunnar ”Gun ’em Down” QAnonski In 2008, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individuals to own guns. But that’s not all it guarantees. It assures the right to bear any sorts of arm... More »
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and he wouldn’t lose any voters. While that statement may not have been completely accurate—e.g., if the person Trump shot was one of h... More »
By Karen Rile WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump made an unprecedented foray into the Olympic sports world today, tweeting that the US Biathlon team will adopt AK-47 assault rifles for use in competition going forward. The announcement provoked shockwaves t... More »
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Gun control advocates think they’re slick when they quote statistics like more than 35,000 men, women, and children are killed each year by guns in the United States and among high-income countries the US accounts for 80 percent of all gun deaths in the worl... More »
HOSTESS Welcome to Gun Mall USA! Don’t forget you’re entitled to fifteen minutes of free practice with every purchase! Our child care area is located right next to the practice tent. We have slides, swings, a sandbox and toy guns. ASK ME ANYTHING! and have... More »
President Trump today defended the grandparents of Walter Thurman Fredrickson, whose Christmas present to the eleven-year-old—an ALSETEX Cougar MS, magazine-fed, repeating grenade launcher they picked up on vacation in Algeria—was used to destroy a two-blo... More »
WASHINGTON DC. – On the heels of the mass shooting in a Florida high school and President Trump’s promotion of incentivizing armed teachers, the NRA has launched the “A Gun in Every Locker” program that aims to arm those most likely to be on the fr... More »
When the 18th Amendment to the American Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, became law, what happened? A colossal epidemic of violence, corruption and crime. At least 10 thousand people died, most by gunshot, some by drinking concoctio... More »