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A Demand for Progress on Climate

April 1, 2018 By drtucker

Like gun violence, chronic poverty and unequal health care coverage, the problem of unchecked greenhouse gas pollution won’t solve itself. As important as local and state efforts to reduce the emissions imperiling our planet are, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: #exxonknew, Attleboro Sun-Chronicle, boston-globe, Citizens Climate Lobby, Committee for a Green Economy, Department of the Interior, Donald Trump, Environmental Protection Agency, Eric Schneiderman, fracking, Gary Rucinski, global-warming, gun-control, human-caused climate change, income-inequality, Joseph Kennedy III, March for Our Lives, Maura Healey, medicare-for-all, natural-gas, Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt, second-amendment, Taunton Daily Gazette

Celebrate a Sabbath to Stop Gun Violence

January 4, 2013 By purplemouse

People of all faiths across the country will participate in a Sabbath to Stop Gun Violence this weekend, Jan. 5-6, 2013. Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Demand A Plan encourage faith leaders across the country to speak to their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gun-control, nra, Sabbath

Will We Spend Another $16 Million This Summer on Unknown Outcomes?

March 20, 2012 By PaulHeroux

Times are tight. Money is scarce. Taxes are our money. Last summer Massachusetts spent $16 million on anti-violence and job placement programs for youth. We are likely to repeat such programs again. However, two important question should … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget, crime, gun-control, gun-violence, juvenile-justice, taxes, youth-advocacy-program

Senator Brown’s “leave it to the states” idea about gun control is, well, stupid

January 19, 2011 By David

Legal Reasons This is pretty easy, so let's dispense with it quickly.  For years, the meaning of the 2nd Amendment was a matter of dispute, as was the question whether it applied at all to the states.  But those matters have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: brown, gun-control, guns

Guns Are People, Too

June 28, 2010 By shiltone

The U.S. Supreme Court, expected to rule narrowly on whether the 2nd Amendment precludes states and municipalities from enacting gun control laws, instead -- by the usual 5-4 majority -- swept away more than a century of precedent and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2nd-amendment, constitutional-issues, gun-control, scotus, supreme-court

Lacking Firepower?

August 19, 2009 By ACLUm blog

There is, in fact, a plan to arm certain divisions of the BPD with the guns, bringing up a cavalcade of issues regarding the use of said weapons. There could be circumstances in which the use of these weapons is called for, and nobody one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu-of-massachusetts, boston-globe, boston-police-department, first-amendment, gun-control, massachusetts

The bill of rights is a Good Thing

June 26, 2008 By tedf

As we wait, maybe with a little trepidation, for the ruling in the Heller case, the Supreme Court's first look in recent decades at the Second Amendment, it's worth remembering why our sometimes pesky Bill of Rights, with its protections … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bill-of-rights, great-britain, gun-control, heller

Heston Dead; Coroner Can’t Pry Gun From Cold Dead Hands

April 6, 2008 By jtdgarlic

Heston's death, though has caused a problem, of sorts, for the Los Angeles County Coroners Office. Sources have told The Garlic, when arriving to remove Mr. Heston's body from the home, they haven't been able to pry an antique musket from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ben-hur, charlton-heston, from-my-cold-dead-hands, gun-control, gun-violence, national, nra, obituaries, planet-of-the-apes, satire, soylent-green, the-ten-commandments, touch-of-evil, wayne-lapierre

Lightning round! (random dribbles and drabs)

July 10, 2007 By Charley on the MTA

Things about which I only have a little bit to say:A big woot woot to John Rosenthal for this: Pretty bad-ass. An NRA spokesman called it a "shameless publicity ploy." On a billboard, no less! Shocking!"TOPGUN runs for Congress":As a Naval … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: congress, gun-control, health-care, sicko, us-house

Arm The Campuses

May 7, 2007 By chimpschump

The laws range from little-to-nothing in Alaska and Vermont, to an almost ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION in New York, Chicago and D.C., which are three cities with either the top, or close to the top, of the highest violent crime rates in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: anti-gun, brady, columbine, crock, gun-control, vt

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