Quote of the Day: Howard Stern on Responding to the Aurora Horror

July 23, 2012 by 5 Comments

The real story is, the President of the United States and Mitt Romney — the two guys running to be President in 2012, they’re running currently — both of them are so fucking pussy-whipped by the NRA, the National Rifle Association, they’re such fucking cowards, the two of them, that neither one of them are willing to get up there and say we need a full ban on assault weapons.

- Howard Stern on his radio show (July 23, 2012)

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Sunday Night Video – The Melissa Harris-Perry Show Addresses Gun Rights

July 22, 2012 by 1 Comment

On the Melissa Harris-Perry Show yesterday, the panel discussed how we went from being a society in which assault weapons were banned into one where we can’t even have a discussion about where to draw the line in what sort of weaponry can be owned by the public. I very much agree with Dorian Warren of Columbia University.

WARREN: When you have military-level fire power in civilian hands, this is what happens. This is the inevitable outcome and it will happen again and again and again unless we want to make a distinction and say we have a value around certain kinds of guns in society that nobody needs.

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Aurora Massacre a Call to Action?

July 22, 2012 by 1 Comment

Holy Assault Rifles, Batman!

Colt AR-15 Sporter SP1 Carbine

Colt AR-15 Sporter SP1 Carbine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There’s great outrage at gun sellers, slammed
For the deaths in Aurora. They’re damned
By the populous. “We
Ask you, how can it be
That an AR-15 could have jammed!?”

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