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Dear Puds,

I came across this interesting article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/responsible-gun-ownership-is-a-lie/619811/

One segment, near the end, really stood out for me;

America has a gun problem because so many Americans are deceived by so many illusions about what a gun will do for them, their family, their…[Read more]

Guess who my money is on…..

Don’t worry too much Linda. Only 3 more years before you can dust off your MAGA hat.

Let me see Linda,

Was it trump who made the deal with the taliban and excluded the Afghan government? Was it trump who invited the taliban to Camp David? Was it trump who wanted to get all your troops out BEFORE he left office and the generals stopped him?. That was trump’s plan and would have been a royal fu ck up the like of which the world…[Read more]

Tell you what then Linda. I’ll save my sympathy for the poor kids whose parents died on them because they were not vaccinated.

A frightening number of  Americans are a product of the media that they take in and yes fishy, the media IS their culture. Ok, we all are to some extent but the USA takes the Gold Medal in the extremes of media one can choose from and it’s all about audience ratings and fuc king profit. If Murdoch FOX doesn’t say what the audience wants to…[Read more]

https://gunsandfreedomthemovie.com

National Catholic Reporter Aug 2019

In the wake of the horrific mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,  it occurs to me that, when it comes to guns, the United States collectively behaves in a way that mimics an addict in denial. Anybody familiar with 12-step recovery programs knows that the entire effort to manage a behavior or…[Read more]

 
Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback