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		<title>Hey Texas, Give This Guy All The Guns He Wants!</title>
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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>
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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>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>You betcha, Texas, give this man all the guns he wants!<span id="more-27654"></span></p>
<p>&#8220;The gunman who turned a Texas church into a shooting gallery had a turbulent past, including a court-martial from the Air Force for assaulting his first wife and child — and a habit of harassing ex-girlfriends.&#8221;</p>
<p>But, in Texas, of course you can have as many guns as you want! Who cares!</p>
<p>By the way, half the victims killed by Texas Gun Lover Devin Kelley were kids.</p>
<p>Those close to him were shocked and claim this is out of character, though one of his ex girlfriends was utterly unshocked. Also, I got a recommendation a few months ago for a contractor from for a very simple job, and the best he could do was 300% of the average cost. And, I&#8217;ve recently been to two business establishments with excellent reviews on Google and Yelp one of which was mediocre the other, basically, sucked.  The lesson here is: recommendations, reviews, and opinions, by anybody of anything, are useless. Especially, it seems, about taco joints and gun nuts.</p>
<p>Texas Gun Nut Devin Kelley was court-martialed in the Air Force because of his violent behavior including against a child.  Did I mention that he killed a dozen children in that Texas church?  He was actually house-jailed in the military for a year for his behavior.</p>
<p>But hey, Texas, give the man all the guns he wants! Yahoo! Shoot &#8217;em up!</p>
<p>Two of his ex girlfriends claim that Texas Gun Nut Devin Kelly is a stalker.  One claims he tried to pay her to hang out with him, called her all the time, pranked her. She claims he would say things that were &#8220;very sick&#8221; and that she won&#8217;t repeat.  And eventually, he assaulted her.</p>
<p>But seriously, Texas, you better give this stalky violent assaulter all the guns he wants! Yippe! Bang Bang!</p>
<p>When he was 18, he got himself a 13 year old girlfriend who now recalls being stalked by him after she broke off the relationship. She had to change her phone number over and over because he would not leave her alone.</p>
<p>This guy, Texas, needs a gun, don&#8217;t you think? Keep those 13 year old girls in line? And who doesn&#8217;t love the smell of gun metal and discharged powder, and the sound of expended shells clinking as they hit the ground until their sound shifts from ping ping to plop plop because they are now falling into pools of your victim&#8217;s blood! Yahoo!</p>
<p>He offered that same young girl, later on when he was married, a deal. I&#8217;ll take care of you, he said, if you move in with my wife and me, and all you have to do is remain topless.  I suppose this helps explain this thing I may or may not have mentioned: He killed a dozen children in his shooting spree. Revenge, I suppose.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the kind of guy I want to give all the guns he wants to!  Yesireee!  I should be a Texan, that idea feels so good.</p>
<p>It is still not clear if Kelly killed himself after his murder spree, or if he died of wounds inflicted by a Texas Good Old Boy with a Gun who happened on the scene.</p>
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		<title>Which US Senators Voted Against Expanded Background Checks For Gun Purchase? UPDATED</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/12/03/which-us-senators-voted-against-expanded-background-checks-for-gun-purchase/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun nuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Bernardino Shooting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[UPDATE! This post was written months ago when, yet again, the Senate tried to do something about guns. You are probably looking for information on the more recent chance for the Senate to show that the are not up to the task of protecting American Citizens. For information on who voted for what in this &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/12/03/which-us-senators-voted-against-expanded-background-checks-for-gun-purchase/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Which US Senators Voted Against Expanded Background Checks For Gun Purchase? UPDATED</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>UPDATE! This post was written months ago when, yet again, the Senate tried to do something about guns. You are probably looking for information on the more recent chance for the Senate to show that the are not up to the task of protecting American Citizens.  For information on who voted for what in this round, <a href="http://everytown.org/senate-vote-orlando/?source=twno_WhipCount&#038;utm_source=tw_n_&#038;utm_medium=_o&#038;utm_campaign=WhipCount">CLICK HERE</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve had a spate of spree killings lately, most recently and famously the killing of 14 people in San Bernardino by two people who should not have owned firearms but were apparently able to legally purchase assault rifles, pistols, and thousands of rounds of ammo.</p>
<p>So, Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, a Democrat and a Republican, introduced an amendment that would expand background checks for commercial gun sales.  This would be a helpful provision, but really wasn&#8217;t much of a restriction.  No one in the Senate should have voted against it. But several did.  By definition, those who voted against the proposal are gun nuts, and they should not be in the Senate or any other elected office. Here are their names:</p>
<h3>Democrats Who Voted Against the Proposal</h3>
<ul>
<li>Max Baucus (D-Mont.)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</li>
<li>Mark Begich (D-Alaska)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</li>
<li>Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</li>
<li>Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helevetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Harry Reid (D-Nev.)&nbsp; (Voted &quot;no&quot; as a procedural move to preserve option to reintroduce the bill.)</span></li>
</ul>
<h3>Republicans Who Voted Against the Proposal</h3>
<ul>
<li>Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)</li>
<li>Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.)</li>
<li>John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)</li>
<li>Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)</li>
<li>John Boozman (R-Ark.)</li>
<li>Richard Burr (R-N.C.)</li>
<li>Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)</li>
<li>Dan Coats (R-Ind.)</li>
<li>Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)</li>
<li>Thad Cochran (R-Miss.)</li>
<li>Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)</li>
<li>John Cornyn (R-Texas)</li>
<li>Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)</li>
<li>Ted Cruz (R-Texas)</li>
<li>Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.)</li>
<li>Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)</li>
<li>Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)</li>
<li>Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)</li>
<li>Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)</li>
<li>Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)</li>
<li>Dean Heller (R-Nev.)</li>
<li>John Hoeven (R-N.D.)</li>
<li>Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)</li>
<li>Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)</li>
<li>Mike Johanns (R-Neb.)</li>
<li>Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)</li>
<li>Mike Lee (R-Utah)</li>
<li>Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)</li>
<li>Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)</li>
<li>Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)</li>
<li>Rand Paul (R-Ky.)</li>
<li>Rob Portman (R-Ohio)</li>
<li>James Risch (R-Idaho)</li>
<li>Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)</li>
<li>Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)</li>
<li>Timothy Scott (R-S.C.)</li>
<li>Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)</li>
<li>Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)</li>
<li>John Thune (R-S.D.)</li>
<li>David Vitter (R-La.)</li>
<li>Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)</li>
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		<title>What Climate Change Denialism Looks Like</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/02/25/what-climate-change-denialism-looks-like/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[#TwitterTrashTalk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun nuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lies and Denial]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I generally ignore climate change denialists on Twitter. I use The Zapper to do that, and it works great, better than blocking. But sometimes I check my Twitter feed on something other than Chrome on my own desktop or laptop and then I see them, and occasionally engage. When I do, I often see troubling &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/02/25/what-climate-change-denialism-looks-like/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What Climate Change Denialism Looks Like</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I generally ignore climate change denialists on Twitter.  I use <a href="http://www.theblockbot.com/?page_id=128">The Zapper</a> to do that, and it works great, better than blocking.  But sometimes I check my Twitter feed on something other than Chrome on my own desktop or laptop and then I see them, and occasionally engage. When I do, I often see troubling or annoying visual tropes that seem to go along with this breed.  Guns, exploitative photos of women, flag-draped symbols, and Nazis.  That sort of thing.</p>
<p>So, this morning I put together a collage of images off the Twitter home pages of just the last handful of Denialists who were obsessively tweeting and retweeting to or about me this morning.  For your enjoyment:</p>
<p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/scienceblogs.com/gregladen/files/2014/02/Collage_of_Twitter_Denialists.png"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/scienceblogs.com/gregladen/files/2014/02/Collage_of_Twitter_Denialists-620x418.png?resize=604%2C407" alt="Collage_of_Twitter_Denialists" width="604" height="407" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-18975" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a></p>
<p>Scared? Yeah, I didn&#8217;t think so.</p>
<p>Are the scared? Given how well armed they are, it would seem so.  Trying to push the world in to climate apocalypse so they can do the survivalism thing?  Interesting idea.</p>
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