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The NRA Reaches Out to The Nation’s Homicidal Madmen

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At a press conference held earlier today at the Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters of the National Rifle Association, NRA President Wayne LaPierre issued a plea for “restraint” in the “rampaging-gunman community” while the United States Congress prepares to debate new firearms regulations.

“As most cold-blooded spree killers know, this is a very sensitive time for gun rights in America. Traditionally, the nation can handle three, even four scenes of unimaginable carnage per year without much difficulty,” LaPierre said. “But after what happened in Newtown, the country is just . . . jittery. And so the NRA encourages all homicidal maniacs, wherever they live in this great country of ours, to keep a low profile for a few months.”

LaPierre was referring to the events in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, when gunman Adam Lanza opened fire in the Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing twenty children and six… full story HERE »

Featured Story – Barillas At The Crossroads

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Rocael is Q’anjob’al Maya. He lives in Cantón Recreo B, in the Guatemalan highland town of Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango. He is married and has one daughter. He is 20 years old and studying to be a teacher. And for the first time in his life, on May 1,… full story HERE »

First Person Shooter – Three Truths

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The Red Suit

I had the benefit of hearing this story twice. Ali told it to me once, and then I got to hear him tell it to an unknown couple that we invited to sit at our table in some bar a few years later. I realized with the… full story HERE »

Surly Bartender – Absolutists In Context

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There’s an old saying back in the States that I just made up and it goes something like this: “If there is a zombie in the well, you probably shouldn’t drink the water.” Apropos of which, for all the buzz in El Norte regarding a civil war brewing within… full story HERE »

First Person Shooter – The Ali Files

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One day Ali and I were sitting around shootin’ the shit, telling stories and drinking beer. The topic drifted to the natural beauty of the hills and mountains around Knoxville. Ali said he loved getting out into the mountains — like he had done one day with me and… full story HERE »

The Surly Bartender – Beyond Newtown

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Just over two months ago, we all heard the same soul-gouging news from Newtown, Connecticut. In a nation that has seen more than its share of firearm-related atrocities, a crime had been committed that was so dark, so unrelentingly awful, that none of us could look away — and… full story HERE »

Terrible But True – Reckless Abandon

The barred doors and shuttered windows, the knotted groups of soldiers twitching their fingers against the triggers of their Kalishnakovs, the sand-bagged bunkers sheltering pairs or trios of camouflaged kids all huddled around a massive belt-fed machine gun, the complete lack of civilians: Perhaps, had we not been so… full story HERE »

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