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		<title>Failing to Gasp the Gun Debate</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/04/18/failing-to-gasp-the-gun-debate/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That is not a typo there in the title of this piece. I don&#8217;t mean grasp, I mean gasp. Listen. I recently attended a town hall held by my newly elected member of Congress, Dean Phillips. It was pretty nice getting to go to a town hall held by my representative in Washington, because the &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/04/18/failing-to-gasp-the-gun-debate/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Failing to Gasp the Gun Debate</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Should people be charged if their gun is used in a crime?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/08/01/should-people-be-charged-if-their-gun-is-used-in-a-crime/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shootings]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, just as if their car is used in a crime. Obviously if someone breaks into your house, breaks open your gun safe, takes your gun, goes down the street and robs a bank with it, that is not your fault. But if you leave a loaded gun laying around unsecured, and a four year &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/08/01/should-people-be-charged-if-their-gun-is-used-in-a-crime/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Should people be charged if their gun is used in a crime?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Candidate Rebecca Otto Lauded By Moms Demand Action</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/03/20/candidate-rebecca-otto-lauded-moms-demand-action/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moms Demand Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Otto]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29340</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[On the day of yet another school shooting (in Maryland), we have some serious issues to think about. Every four years in Minnesota, we elected a new gubernor. We&#8217;re doing that right now. This is an especially important race, for four reasons. 1) We have to have Democratic rule in Minnesota for the next eight &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/03/20/candidate-rebecca-otto-lauded-moms-demand-action/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Candidate Rebecca Otto Lauded By Moms Demand Action</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walk out not up #walkoutnotup #walkoutandwalkup</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/03/15/walk-not-walkoutnotup-walkoutandwalkup/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with &#8220;walk out and walk up&#8221; because it expands consideration and activism in a good direction. It says, &#8220;while you are busy protesting the fact that dozens of children and teachers are murdered in their schools per year &#8212; and good for you for doing this &#8212; note that in your &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/03/15/walk-not-walkoutnotup-walkoutandwalkup/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Walk out not up #walkoutnotup #walkoutandwalkup</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A gun by any other name is still a gun&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/28/gun-name-still-gun/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assault rifle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assault weapon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fully automatic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gun synonyms: firearm, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, carbine, automatic, handgun, semiautomatic, machine gun, Uzi. A rifle has a long rifled barrel. Rifling is a spiral groove that causes the bullet to spin. A spinning bullet flies straighter, so point-blank range is longer. Point-blank is not gun-to-the-head (or rifle-to-the-head) distance, it is simply the distance over &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/28/gun-name-still-gun/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A gun by any other name is still a gun&#8230;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">29124</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Trump and Gun Control. LOL Republicans.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/21/trump-gun-control-lol-republicans/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ABC Scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assault rifle]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump will advance the regulation and control of deadly weapons but not in the way you might think. He is currently contemplating, which is a big word to use for Trump so maybe I mean having some verbal diarrhea that vaguely resembles an idea, banning assault style weapons and bump stocks. Of course, he &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/21/trump-gun-control-lol-republicans/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Trump and Gun Control. LOL Republicans.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paul Ryan on the Massacre of Children</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/18/paul-ryan-massacre-children/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass killings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School shootings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Prayers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It appears that there never will come a time when we should do anything about the massacre of children or mass killings in general, according to the Republican leader:]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">29038</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Gun Control and School Shootings</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/15/gun-control-school-shootings/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homicide]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28986</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[When a school shooting happens, good people become horrified and many ask for better gun laws. The answer that comes from the anti-safeguard lobby, those who mainly want guns to be unregulated with respect to ownership, safety, use, or disposition, is that such laws would not have stopped the tragedy that prompted the conversation. They &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/15/gun-control-school-shootings/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Gun Control and School Shootings</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Falsehood: &#8220;People, not guns, kill people&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/07/falsehood-people-not-guns-kill-people/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, of course, you need a person (usually) to pull the trigger. But it is abundance of and ease of access to guns that causes the United States to be off the charts in woundings and killings from firearms. This is what the research has shown for a very long time and continues to show. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/07/falsehood-people-not-guns-kill-people/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Falsehood: &#8220;People, not guns, kill people&#8221;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">27679</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Hey Texas, Give This Guy All The Guns He Wants!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/06/hey-texas-give-guy-guns-wants/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devin Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun nuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas mass shooting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! Ride &#8217;em cowboy! Shoot &#8217;em up and get &#8216;er done! That&#8217;s what I say. Tell those namby pamyb libtards to stuff their gun control where the sun don&#8217; shine. You betcha, Texas, give this man all the guns he wants! &#8220;The gunman who turned a Texas church into a shooting gallery had a turbulent &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/06/hey-texas-give-guy-guns-wants/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Hey Texas, Give This Guy All The Guns He Wants!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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