NRA 2nd Amendment Misreadings Corrected with Snark | Building Background Knowledge
In her August 14, 2016 article "Fuck your imaginary Second Amendment" for Medium.com, Betsy F. Yerguns both deconstructs the language of the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and identifies crucial ommissions from and intentional misrepresenations of the clause by the NRA. In the article she writes: She then continues to carefully examine key concepts in the language, including: "well regulated" and "militia". Take a read! #SecondAmendment #SCOTUS #NR
How the NRA Aids and Abets Criminals | Building Background Knowledge
“We ain't got a registration system. Ain't nobody registering no damn guns.” This is from the mouth Charlie Houser, a federal agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. This is the central problem the ramifications of which are explored in "Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns" an article in the lastest edition of GQ by Jeanne Marie Laskas with photos by Matthew Monteith. Ms. Laskas continues, "There is no national database of guns. We have no centra
Blood Money: Gun Violence, Marketing, and Big Business | Building Background Knowledge
The in the June 27, 2016 edition, the New Yorker magazine published an excellent video and article which outlines the steps that the gun industry took to carve out a market for weapons in the United States. The video can be viewed here: http://video.newyorker.com/watch/how-the-gun-industry-sells-self-defense The article is here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/after-orlando-examining-the-gun-business These pieces breakdown both the psychology of the buyers and,
GAG Participates in Gun Violence Panel After Screening of "Making a Killing" Documentary
"GAG is not about being polite," said GAG-NY cofounder John Grauwiler who joined NY state senator Brad Hoylman, NYC public advocate Tish James, and other activists at a panel discussion Thursday night after a screening of MAKING A KILLING, the stomach-turning documentary about how the NRA blocks sensible gun laws for their industry's own limitless profits. #NRApreparetogag If you want a really deep and infuriating picture of how the gun industry is blocking laws that would
Homophobes, Misogynists Attack Mass. AG and GAG's First Fierce Kween Maura Healey
No surprise that Mass. Attorney General Maura Healey is getting a toxic load of homophobic and misogynist backlash for vowing to truly enforce her state's ban on automatic weapons. Well, Atty General Healey, we're here to say that you've got more allies in common-sense gun reform than you do stupid sexist haters who can't even spell. Folks, tell Mass. Governor Charlie Baker to stand by Healey's brave resolve by signing this petition! :http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/governor
Know Your Enemy (The NRA) | Building Background Knowledge
The Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the lobbying arm of the NRA. Established in 1975, ILA is committed to preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The ILA is also deeply committed to putting forth shrewd, yet incoherent, arguments that help perpetuate an ideology of fear in its constituency. We literally GAGged at the title of a re
Signed More Pro-Gun Laws than Any Other Fla Gov | NRA Puppet Fla Gov Rick Scott | Building Backgroun
Another mass shooting has occurred at a nightclub in Florida in the early hours this morning. This one at a party for young people. Current reports are that 2 are dead and 16 to 17 are wounded. Governor Rick Scott, a Repbulican, offered the same tired platitudes that any NRA puppet offers. That is "Thoughts and Prayers" But this is to be expected when someone else is pulling the strings and a government official is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the gun industry and the
Death in Summertime 2016 | Eleven Normal Days of Gun Violence In America | GAG Background Knowledge
"Shots Fired", ABC News Correspondent Pierre Thomas's special report for ABC's Nightline series, gets down to detail on all the gun violence occuring across the United States over a sample 11 day period begining on June 24, 2016. Mr Pierre covers all facets of gun violence in these two 11 minute videos. He touches upon: types of gun violence (mass shootings to domestic violence to stray bullet to police involved shootings); geographic distribution (urban to suburban and rural
GAG and Friends Take to Trump Towers Midtown To Say "Stop the Hate, Stop the Guns!"
Photo Courtesy of Rob Kohl STOP THE HATE STOP THE GUNS "Racist, sexist, anti-gay! Donald Trump, sashay away!" And "GOP, NRA, how many kids did you kill today?" Those were just two of the fierce chants of Gays Against Guns tonight in midtown, teaming up with Queer Nation and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence in a wet but 300-strong rally against Toxic Orangeman, Pence, the GOP and the NRA in front of Orangeman Tower on Fifth Avenue during Night 1 of the RNC's cirque du hate+fea
Critical Mass? Gun Control Movement Has Been Building for a While | Building Background Knowledge
The Gun Control Movement in America has been growning for some time now. It's even been growning in conservative areas. After the disgusting April, 2013 Senate vote defeating small but sensible federal gun control legislation while families of slain Sandy Hook victims sat in the gallery, "...[S]omething unexpected happened." writes Alec MacGillis in his May, 2013 article for the New Republic called "This Is How the NRA Ends: A bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has
