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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>
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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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		<title>Mass Murder: A Perspective on Young Male Killers</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/10/mass-murder-perspective-young-male-killers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 21:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Race and Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demonic males]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Loyola University&#8217;s James Garbarino, author of Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases, addressed the questions (two years ago), why do males do most of the mass killings: Some of it appears to lie in their (“our”) biological vulnerability. &#8230; about 30% of males (versus &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/10/mass-murder-perspective-young-male-killers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Mass Murder: A Perspective on Young Male Killers</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Falsehoods and Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass Shootings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US and UK compared]]></category>
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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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		<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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		<title>More Guns Equals More Gun Deaths</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/guns-equals-gun-deaths/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[And lax legislation and elected representatives who run their elections using money from the gun industry make sure there are PLENTY of guns to go around. People who are running for office who have pro NRA positions and/or take gun money should be drummed out of politics. The rate of gun ownership in a state &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/guns-equals-gun-deaths/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">More Guns Equals More Gun Deaths</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vote Down The Guns</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/vote-down-the-guns/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[First a word about our lovely press. If I hear one more reporter grovel and squirm about how we don&#8217;t really want to hurt the NRA or take away any gun rights or do anything unreasonable, no, no, we just want to assume there is a solution to the carnage that does not inconvenience any &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/vote-down-the-guns/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Vote Down The Guns</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Response to the Las Vegas Shooting</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/response-las-vegas-shooting/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Americans for Responsible Solutions. I&#8217;m personally not sure about responsible solutions &#8230; I tend to read &#8220;responsible&#8221; as &#8220;watered down&#8221; when it comes to the gun debate. But, for what it is worth (and it is interesting) here it is: Framework for Addressing the Loopholes that Led to the Las Vegas Shooting October 5, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/response-las-vegas-shooting/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Response to the Las Vegas Shooting</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9321</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Vote Down The Guns</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/03/vote-down-the-guns-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Violence and Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Franken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty McCollum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erik Paulsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Ellison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Emmer]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[First a word about our lovely press. If I hear one more reporter grovel and squirm about how we don&#8217;t really want to hurt the NRA or take away any gun rights or do anything unreasonable, no, no, we just want to assume there is a solution to the carnage that does not inconvenience any &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/03/vote-down-the-guns-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Vote Down The Guns</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>BLM+ responds to NRA and White Supremacists</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/08/blm-responds-to-nra-and-white-supremacists/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2017 20:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#BLM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRA]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve seen this horrid person in this horrid video calling for white people to take up arms and kill black people (and maybe Jews). The ad uses mostly dog whistles, so if your head is stuck deep in the sand, or up some orifice or another, you may be able to block out the message. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/08/blm-responds-to-nra-and-white-supremacists/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">BLM+ responds to NRA and White Supremacists</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Johnny Herndon for County Commissioner: Balance the Budget with Guns!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 19:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Personally, I think making everyone own a gun is just another form of taxation. But, he does make a point. If you shoot anyone who threatens you dead, taxes would be lower. Right? It is actually very simple. hat tip Rachel/Laura]]></description>
		
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