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Hoplophobia: “A mental aberration (a psychotic affliction) characterized by an unreasoning terror of inanimate objects, specifically, weapons. The term does not designate simply a person who has an aversion to firearms, but, rather, most commonly, to one who is afflicted by a mental illness which results in his considering an inanimate object to have a will of its own.” January […]
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A student at Chanute (KS) Elementary School was suspended for five days over possession of an empty rifle shell casing on school grounds. That’s an inert hollow piece of brass, not unlike an empty metallic ball point pen body. The boy’s mother was told by Principal Gary Wheeler that the incident could lead to a 168-day suspension, but they could
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Beloit, WI Police Chief Norm Jacobs has asked members of his community to volunteer to have their homes searched by police for guns, because he hopes the program will encourage people to think about gun violence as an infectious disease like Ebola, and a home inspection like a vaccine to help build up the city’s immune system. You might want
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From Farnam: “Since 2007, there have been 126 ‘reported’ NDs in Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). Three deaths, and eleven other (non-fatal) injuries. However, those are just the ones that were ‘reported.’ You can probably multiply that by at least ten to get the actual number of NDs! Our predictable response has been to endlessly reiterate to beleaguered soldiers how to
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After the left-wing activists including the New York Times and a large cadre of Democrat politicians publicly abandoned their push for an “assault weapons” ban because assault weapons don’t really exist, the black guns singled out that way are not a factor in crime or mortality statistics, and the bans have had no effect on crime, Alan Korwin notes this
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A 10-year-old fifth-grader was suspended for two days from Stacy Middle School in Milford, MA, after pointing an imaginary ray gun – his finger – and mouthing laser sounds in the school’s cafeteria. A conduct slip, written by Assistant Principal Noah Collins, lists the offense as a threat. The school Principal is Nancy Angelini, and the Superintendent is Robert Tremblay.
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The Lynden Pioneer Museum in northern Washington state plans to remove about a dozen borrowed firearms from a World War Two exhibit and return them to their owners to comply with the state’s new gun control law that requires background checks for all gun “transfers.” Washington voters passed legislation earlier this month expanding background checks on all firearms purchases to
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A Wheeling, WV Sunday School teacher was walking after church when he and his fiancée were surrounded by a group of nine men who began making threats, saying “they were going to rape my wife in front of me, cut me.” Even after the woman called 911, the aggression continued. Finally the man pulled his gun and fired a warning
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