gun control

WHEN WILL LIBERALS GET A CLUE?

LIBERALS, AM I RIGHT? IF IT’S NOT MAKING UP CLIMATE CHANGE, IT’S TRYING TO TAKE OUR GUNS. WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA? JUST YESTERDAY, SOME LIBERAL GIRLY MAN NAMED WES SILER (WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT, ANWAYS? I BET HE’S MEXICAN) TRIED TO TELL TED CRUZ (PRAIS JESUS) HE WAS HOLDING HIS SHOTGUN WRONG.…

Facebook and Instagram announced on Wednesday that they would tighten policies to make it more difficult to buy and trade illegal guns on their websites. It’s about time.

Reddit Has a Burgeoning Gun Market and Its Sales Numbers Are Shocking

Reddit’s great for many things: funny pictures, interesting factoids, revealing crowd-sourced interviews. Also, assault rifles. Mother Jones just published an unnerving investigation into the little known gun market tucked into the GunsForSale subreddit, and the numbers are disturbing. According to the magazine’s research, the site has hosted at least 159 transactions since last June, nearly…

Pundits: Games are good practice for murder, bigger problem than guns

Following the killing of an old woman by her eight-year-old grandson using a loaded gun, pundits from Fox News, MSNBC and CNN are claiming that videogames are good practice for murder. Video games are, according to a U.S. senator, “a bigger problem than guns.” Then again, if the eight-year-old had not had access to a…

Criminals Can Now Make Unregistered Guns With One Mouse Click

This can make the entire gun control debate pointless: student/inventor Cody Wilson has successfully designed and tested a pistol that can be easily downloaded through the internet and made into reality using a cheap 3D plastic printer by anyone. One push of a button and bang, you are done. It’s called The Liberator and it…

Remember the Journal News’ map of gun permit holders in New York? Turns out it was highly inaccurate. Oops.

It’s Pretty Clear That We Want to Talk About Gun Control Now

This is a Google search trend chart that shows the search results of ‘gun control’ in Google over the past seven years. As you can see, the Google query for gun control spikes significantly every time a mass shooting takes place but it has never received more interest than these past few days since the…

Of Course Today Is the Day to Talk About Gun Control

The entire point of technology is to work to our benefit, not against us. The entire point of being a responsible, reasoned human being is to face our failings head-on, not to hide from them. Those points seem inarguable. So why is it that the only time we’re not allowed to talk about guns as…