In 2017, the state of Georgia passed a law allowing guns to be carried on campus. To date, I don’t believe there have been any instances of gun-carrying students thwarting terrorist attacks. Today, a University of Georgia student did inadvertently shoot himself through the leg while studying Chemistry, though. Coincidentally, at roughly the same time […]
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Does EMU have a clear and consistently enforced policy on the carrying of firearms on campus?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged credit union, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Georgia, guns, guns on campus, open carry, University of Georgia, University of Michigan Credit Union, Wobblie 3 Comments
As some Republicans begin to stand up against Trump and McConnell on white nationalism and gun control, the fight shifts to Walmart and the corporations underwriting Trumpism
It’s now been a few days since a white nationalist gunman took the lives of 22 people in El Paso and there are any number of things that we could discuss. I’m inclined to focus on Mitch McConnell’s continued refusal to bring House Resolution 8 to a vote in the Senate, but I really don’t […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Amy McGrath, Andrew Ross Sorkin, assault rifles, assault weapons, Ben Sasse, domestic terrorism, Doug McMillon, fascism, Georgetown, gun control, H.R. 8, Joaquin Castro, John McCollister, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, mass shootings, Michael R. Turner, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, money in politics, Nebraska, Nebraska Republican Party, NRA, Ohio, open carry, Parkland, Poway, racism, San Antonio, Tucker Carlson, universal background checks, Walmart, white nationalism, white supremacy 69 Comments
Yet another young white male with a gun goes on a killing rampage citing the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory
Yesterday morning, at approximately 11:00 AM, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white male wth a history of racist views, walked into the Walmart next to El Paso’s Cielo Vista Mall with an AK-47-style assault rifle, and proceeded to take the lives of 20 human beings. While some on the right, like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, are […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 8chan, anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, assault rifles, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, background checks, Beto O'Rourke, border wall, call to action, call to violence, Charlottesville, Christchurch, conspiracy theories, domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, Drudge Report, El Paso, gamification, go back to where you came from, go back to your countries, Great Replacement, Greg Abbott, gun control, gun violence, impeachment, incitement to violence, infested, invasion, levitate the Pentagon, levitation, manifestos, mass murder, mass shootings, mental health, mental illness, Mexico, New Zealand, NRA, Nuremberg, Patrick Crusius, racism, Renaud Camus, Texas, The Inconvenient Truth, universal background checks, violence on the extreme right, Walmart, white nationalism, white supremacist, Will Hurd 93 Comments