Caroline Starks was 2 years old. Her 5-year-old brother was playing nearby with his birthday present: a .22-caliber Crickett rifle. His mother stepped outside for a moment, certain the gun wasn’t loaded. She was wrong. Caroline was pronounced dead a few hours later at the Cumberland County Hospital in Kentucky….
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There have been at least 67 in the last three decades—and most of the killers got their guns legally.
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Three people were killed and 16 injured Wednesday when a shooter opened fire at Fort Hood, officials said. The suspect died of a self-inflicted wound.
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“Lisa Bloom writes in her book,
“On a very dark, rainy night, Trayvon saw through Zimmerman’s body to a gun holstered behind him, concealed inside his pants? Did Trayvon have X-ray vision?”
“What shocked me most of all was that the prosecution had failed raise this point at trial. Not in the opening statement. Not in the questioning of any of their witnesses. Not in cross-examination of defense witnesses.”
“In Albuquerque, NM, on a dark night in a quiet neighborhood, 23 year-old Iraq War Veteran Jonathan Mitchell was shot and killed in March 2013. He was killed by Donnie Pearson. Pearson has not been arrested due to a claim of self-defense.
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There is a petition on change.org for the arrest of Donnie Pearson. Click here to sign.”
Jordan Davis’ mom, Lucia MacBath, has teamed up with the parents of Trayvon Martin to repeal the Stand Your Ground law.
“Stand Your Ground” is “Kill at Will” – a sick twist in U.S. law to allow lynching by gun.
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“History has proven there is only one way to get the attention of unmovable ideologies to achieve change. Matching and protests are strategies, which is nothing more than a good show for the cameras. For example, the March on Washington and the Million Man March produced little in terms of measurable results. On the other hand, BOYCOTT’s work – the Birmingham Bus Boycott and the Martin Luther King Holiday Boycott on the state of Arizona – WORKED! It is time to stop BS-ing and BOYCOTT FLORIDA and everything connected to it. We will then get change. And that’s my thought provoking perspective…”
Stand your ground against Stand Your Ground.
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Illinois is the last state to legislate conceal carry. Appropriately interpreted by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, I call it the Citizens’ Militia gun rights act. Illinois Governor…
“To be Black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage” -James Baldwin (by DesiBjorn)
Black Lives Matter
