Keep Rhode Island campuses gun free
Still before the Rage released at the Board of Education meeting on May 23, 2013.On April 4, 2013, the University of Rhode Island campus was locked down for hours after, as the Providence Journal reported, “people in a lecture hall said they heard someone say they had a gun. Police found no gun or [...]
Arming URI Campus Police: Bullet Points
On April 4, the URI campus was locked down for a couple of hours after, as the Providence Journal states it “people in a lecture hall said they heard someone say they had a gun. Police found no gun or a shooter.” Today, there was a forum at URI about arming campus police. In his [...]
The NRA, Bilbo Baggins, URI and Teny Oded Gross
Just like it did in Congress, it looks like the NRA will beat back stricter gun laws at the Rhode Island State House as well, reports Sam Bell of the Rhode Island Progressive Democrats. “Rhode Islanders favor an assault weapons ban by a margin of 64% to 27%, but we aren’t hearing from them,” Rep. [...]
Tell the NRA: not in RI
The campaign for common-sense gun reform in Rhode Island is in trouble. Speaker Gordon Fox and Senate President Paiva-Weed both support the strong bills Governor Chafee introduced, but they have described them as a starting point for talks. And it is not looking good. State Rep. Linda Finn tells me, “Rhode Islanders favor an assault weapons [...]
Gallagher And Gun Control
Ever tried to pry out a nail with a screwdriver or pave a driveway with plastic resin? No? That’s because you’re smart enough to use the right tool for the right job. Which is why the “hammers, knives and baseball bats kill more people than guns, but they’re not regulated” argument used by Second Amendment [...]
Teny Oded Gross’ Unique Look At Gun Violence
Something nefarious happened last week at the State House in regards to reforming the state’s gun control laws, and it wasn’t that an NRA lobbyist came to push his conservative agenda. It’s that Teny Oded Gross was the only member of the public to ask him to take it elsewhere. ‘It’s a deceitful organization,” Oded [...]
RI Legislature Should Ignore NRA Lobbyist
In May 1998, I was driving through east Texas. I pulled off at a restaurant to grab a bite to eat. I grabbed a newspaper to catch the headlines. I turned the folded paper over and received perhaps the biggest shock of my life. Mrs. Kinkel, my high school Spanish teacher in Springfield, Oregon, where [...]
Externalities Kill
I can almost stretch my memory back to the day of Dec. 14, back through the fog of politicized media spin, the miasma of special interests spreading to capitalize on crisis and grief in one way or another. I can almost remember the overwhelming flood of empathy, the consolation, the unconditional love, and the deep [...]
Rally Saturday For Greater Gun Control Legislation
The effort to make our kids and communities safer comes to the State House tomorrow afternoon as a coalition against gun violence is holding a rally at the State House from noon to 1:30. According to a Facebook invite: Gun violence is EPIDEMIC in the US – and has become not only a major public [...]
What Will Obama Gun Regulation Accomplish?
Recent controversy over which actual weapons were used at Sandy Hook, including MSNBC’s report as to whether an assault weapon was used at all, is likely to have no impact on the government response moving forward. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Similarly, the fact that the government told [...]
Commonsense Gun Laws
The horrific images from the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School are still seared into our minds – of six-year olds fleeing from danger, law enforcement officers overwhelmed with emotion, and parents grieving for loved ones taken from them forever. President Obama’s powerful words after the shooting spoke directly to the soul of a [...]
A Brief Word On Guns
We all need to realize that allowing people to purchase and own AR-15s is just as much social engineering as not allowing them. Either way creates a certain sort of society, which is pretty much the definition of social engineering. The problem is not pro-gun per se. The problem is that the current manifestation of [...]
Four Reasons the NRA is a Red Herring
In the wake of another tragedy, calls for gun regulation rises again. Many citizens do not tend to “wait and see” what the politicians will do, and many expect a little saber-rattling and then see their elected officials bow down to the powerful pro-gun lobbyNational Rifle Association. People have already begun targeting the NRA as [...]
All Guns Should Be Insured, Just Like Cars
It’s an old idea that hasn’t gotten a lot of play, but the recent events in Newtown and the seemingly endless impasse in our society over what if any restrictions should be applied to firearms has gotten a few people to start thinking outside the box. Hence Robert Cyran and Reynolds Holding have proposed that [...]
The Right Needs A Head On A Stick; Erik Loomis’ Will Do
It’s been a bad end of the year for conservatives. After deluding themselves into thinking they were going to win the presidential election by a landslide, they instead found themselves routed by a president they’d labelled “socialist” and claimed that he “palled around with terrorists.” And then in the wake of a national tragedy which [...]
Sign Local Gun Control Petition Here
How many more must die? We need true gun control now, and our congressional delegation agrees. Today’s a great day to re-watch “Bowling for Columbine” and you can do so here. It’s a great day to honor the heroism of our educators – any of whom could one day be put in the same situation [...]
Newtown Tragedy, and the Wages of American Cruelty
I really don’t know what to say about the events in CT today, so close to where I grew up, at precisely the time my own children were in school. Tragic events like this are, in the end, inexplicable — but much like the 9/11 attacks, to simply describe what happened as a consequence of [...]
Watch Michael Moore’s ‘Bowling for Columbine’
In 2002 Michael Moore released the seminal progressive examination of the way American culture embraces guns, and that cultural ethos’ role in school shootings such as what happened at Columbine in 1999 and yesterday in Newtown, just 134 miles away. Moore won an Academy Award for best documentary but as we saw yesterday, not much [...]
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