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Category Archives: gun control
Marketing Death Machines To Children
Got this email the other day from Everytown For Gun Safety. This on the heals of one 6 year old child shooting his teacher in Virginia and a video showing a 4 year old child in diapers wandering around his … Continue reading
Posted in gun control, gun safety
Tagged every town for gun safety, marketing guns to kids
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Domestic Terrorism: Electric Substations Under Attack
Last Monday, Rachel Maddow did a 12 minute segment on attacks on America’s electric infrastructure. Attacks on our electric system is not new. They are sure vulnerable. Folks may remember that there have been cyber attacks on our electric systems … Continue reading
Posted in gun control
Tagged Domestic terrorism, electric substations, North Carolina
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“America Is A Gun”
Another day, another mass murder in America. No other country has this problem. In a country that blathers on and on about “freedom” there can can be no real freedom until we overthrow the tyranny of the gun. In his … Continue reading
Posted in gun control, gun safety
Tagged Domestic terrorism, Sandy Hook murders, terrorism
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Thanks, Kids
As I write this we still don’t know who will be in power in Congress. Will Democrats retain control of the US House? Will they retain leadership in the US Senate? Or will the extremist Republican Party take control of … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Climate Change, firearms, gun control, Health Care & Medicare, Republican Policy, womens rights
Tagged abortion, race, younger voters skew democratic
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Reminder: Victims Of Gun Violence Scarred For Life
Cooper Roberts, 8 year old victim of the July 4th Highland Park shooting, has a long haul ahead of him (35 seconds) It has been what? around 50 days since the mass shooting by a teenager during a July 4th … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Charles Grassley, gun control, gun safety, Joni Ernst
Tagged carnage, gun laws, gun victims
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Gun Violence In America
Guns in America: 16 Charts You Need to See I came across this article from the Reader’s Digest the other day. It is a fairly quick read chock full of statistics that make it very clear just how pervasive guns … Continue reading
Posted in gun control, gun safety
Tagged mass shootings, mental health and guns, more guns and safety, victims of gun violence
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Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Becomes Law
On June 25, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law S.2938, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The bill passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 65-33, and the U.S. House by a vote of 234-193. Chuck Grassley, Randy Feenstra, … Continue reading
Posted in gun control
Tagged Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, gun control, gun control legislation, Uvalde
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Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis
In July, Blog for Iowa will present some different news sources on Feature Friday as the regular editors take summer break. This week is a blog post from International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War on the relationship between … Continue reading
Posted in gun control, Public Health
Tagged gun control, gun violence, IPPNW, public health
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Return Iowa To Normalcy
As the J6 Committee hearings roll on there is little question that the then president was the driving force behind an attempt to end our constitutional government in the US after some 230 years. There had been little question before … Continue reading
Posted in #nevertrump, Charles Grassley, firearms, gun control, gun safety, SCOTUS
Tagged Mike Franken, SCOTUS decision on concealed guns, treason
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Money In Politics: The Root Of All Evil
We are in what I often think of as the Patriotic days of summer. From Flag Day on June 14th, when the flag was adopted by the Continental Congress through Juneteenth when all the slaves finally learned they were free … Continue reading
Posted in Charles Grassley, gun control, gun safety, Joni Ernst, money out of politics
Tagged corporate influence, corruption
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