Guns
Missouri lawmaker seeks to make guns as difficult to get as abortions
A Missouri representative proposed a bill that if passed would subject gun buyers to the same restrictions as a woman wanting an abortion, a procedure also protected by the U.S. Constitution.
...Kansas lawmaker resigns, goes to work for NRA
One of Rep. Travis Couture-Lovelady’s profile pics on Facebook. He usually wears glasses.
...The economics of mass shootings
It’s become a reflexive response every time guns grab the headlines to say that mass shootings drive up gun sales. Go to a gun store or show, and you’ll likely find a poster declaring President Obama to be the gun salesman of the century.
...NRA: No, Mr. President, the NRA is not to blame
Chris Cox, the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action’s executive director.
...The New Yorker cover satirizes ubiquity of guns
Cover by artist Eric Drooker.
...Gun debate heating up over San Bernardino shooting
A law enforcement officer looks over evidence at the scene of a shootout in San Bernardino, California. (Photo: Reuters)
...Secret Service agent indicted for sending obscene photos to a minor
A 37-year-old Secret Service agent was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware, for attempting to transfer obscene materials to a minor.
Lee Robert Moore was arrested last month and remains in custody after engaging in conversations of a sexual nature with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Moore, who was employed at the White House at the time of his arrest and engaged in the activities while at work, allegedly sent sexually explicit photos to undercover agents posing as the teen girl, with one of the photos containing an image of his penis.
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The fight on the home front
First Paris, now San Bernardino—the news reports are preliminary, but it appears that a coordinated attack has been carried out in southern California. At this point, the police have released nothing in the way of information about a motive, other than to say that one of the shooters may have attended a party at the Inland Regional Center before leaving and then returning to begin shooting. The fact that the shooters came in what is described as body armor and may also have brought a pipe bomb with them suggests that this was not simply a workplace disagreement, though. One of the suspects has been identified as Syed Farook, a man whose father claimed is a devout Muslim.
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