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		<title>The chilling effect of concealed carry law on the Texas classroom</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/02/24/the-chilling-effect-of-concealed-carry-law-on-the-texas-classroom/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[faculty-student conflict]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Texas has adopted a law that allows students to bring a handgun to class, or to meetings with professors. As a response to this policy, the president of the Faculty Senate, Jonathan Snow, gathered a group of faculty and gave a powerpoint presentation that included the slide at the top of the post. Snow&#8217;s presentation &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/02/24/the-chilling-effect-of-concealed-carry-law-on-the-texas-classroom/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The chilling effect of concealed carry law on the Texas classroom</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Senator Kelly Ayotte: Going down in flames</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/05/01/senator-kelly-ayotte-going-down-in-flames/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 22:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly Ayotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sandy hook]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey, guess what? It turns out that if 90% of the people want something, and it is the only right thing to do, and not doing it not only &#8220;not the right thing&#8221; but it is also an abysmally horrid, insensitive, immoral, and boneheaded thing to do, that YOU LOSE. Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/05/01/senator-kelly-ayotte-going-down-in-flames/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Senator Kelly Ayotte: Going down in flames</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A little gun math</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/01/19/a-little-gun-math/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As you know, I often mention reports from the Ohh Shoot blog, which chronicles the virtually daily instances of someone doing something accidental with a gun and the associated serious wounding or killing of one or more other individuals. These events are not part of the large number of suicides using guns that happen every &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/01/19/a-little-gun-math/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A little gun math</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Gun Appreciation Day!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/01/19/happy-gun-appreciation-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy Gun Appreciation Day! Let&#8217;s spend a little time to appreciate guns. Because this is the very first Gun Appreciation Day! I&#8217;m not sure why we&#8217;ve never had a Gun Appreciation Day before, but now that we have one let&#8217;s celebrate with a review of the last month&#8217;s interesting stories about guns! Yay! For completeness, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/01/19/happy-gun-appreciation-day/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Happy Gun Appreciation Day!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Suicide (and sometimes murder) on the Gun Range</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/01/17/suicide-and-sometimes-murder-on-the-gun-range/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, a person shows up at a gun range, checks out a gun ostensibly to use in target practice on the range, but instead uses the gun to commit suicide. In one case not long ago, a woman brought her teenage son to the range, and checked out two pistols. They took turn shooting for &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/01/17/suicide-and-sometimes-murder-on-the-gun-range/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Suicide (and sometimes murder) on the Gun Range</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Unpack this, NRA (trigger warning)</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/21/unpack-this-nra-trigger-warning/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Below the fold is a description from Wikipedia of the Red Lake School Shooting. Consider the details in relation to issues of gun ownership, safety, school security, and whatever other issues it brings to mind. Warning, this is graphic and horrid. The day of the massacre, Weise got a .22 caliber pistol from his bedroom, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/21/unpack-this-nra-trigger-warning/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Unpack this, NRA (trigger warning)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gun Nuts Stay Home: No Teachers or Staff With Guns in Schools!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/19/gun-nuts-stay-home-no-teachers-or-staff-with-guns-in-schools/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns in schools]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The gun nuts did not waste much time after the brutal slaying of 20 six year olds, some teachers, a principal, and some others at a school in Newtown Connecticut to start suggesting that everything would have been fine if only the teachers were armed. And now, after more days have gone by, it seems &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/19/gun-nuts-stay-home-no-teachers-or-staff-with-guns-in-schools/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Gun Nuts Stay Home: No Teachers or Staff With Guns in Schools!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">15033</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Sandy Hook: Their Horror, Our Country, Your Guns.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/17/sandy-hook-their-horror-our-country-your-guns/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14969</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Let me start with this. People talking about Sandy Hook need to stop saying that &#8220;20 children between the ages of 5 and 10 were killed.&#8221; That is technically true but misses an enormously important point and indicates that you really haven&#8217;t thought this through. All of the children who were killed were born between &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/17/sandy-hook-their-horror-our-country-your-guns/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sandy Hook: Their Horror, Our Country, Your Guns.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stand Your Ground, Racism, and the Second Amendment</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/19/stand-your-ground-racism-and-the-second-amendment/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Race and Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I want you to do a little thought experiment. Don&#8217;t worry, if you have had a long day and your brain is tired, it won&#8217;t be too hard. If you&#8217;re a Teabagger and are not very smart, it won&#8217;t be too hard. If you&#8217;re a middle class white person with concerns about brown people moving &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/19/stand-your-ground-racism-and-the-second-amendment/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Stand Your Ground, Racism, and the Second Amendment</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>If you do something wrong, you should be fired or killed.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/10/if-you-do-something-wrong-you/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun ownership]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you do something wrong, you should be fired or killed. Whether you should be fired or killed has nothing to do with what you did, but rather, the context in which you did it. If you do something wrong in the presence of a legal gun owner with a Conceal Carry permit and a &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/10/if-you-do-something-wrong-you/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">If you do something wrong, you should be fired or killed.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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