The tragic shootings in Omaha in which eight people lost their lives (not including the gunman himself) again raises the issue of firearm ownership. Next year the US supreme court is set to debate, for the first time in 70 years, the right of citizens to bear arms and yet again the reaction is that of immediate [...]
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Omaha Massacre fuels gun control debate
Posted in Gun Control on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An actual post about current affairs
Posted in Anarchism, Gun Control, Justice, Philosophy, Political, Social, Society on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The media has a habit of latching onto a story and then only fixating itself upon stories which support its current crusade but nontheless for a story to be reported it generally has to have happened. So we hear the story of the 11 year old Rhys who was shot in the back of the [...]
Categorisation, our favourite pastime
Posted in Capital Punishment, Civil Liberties, Corporeal Punishment, Crime and Punishment, democracy, Gun Control, Justice, Labour, Life, Non-Violence, Nuclear Weapons, Political, Rare coming of the senses, Social, Socialism, Violence on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent a couple of days doing my usual complete reappraisal of myself, I’ve been on a bit of a high of late and somewhere up in the clouds where logic and reason fell short of reaching me. Not that I’ve had a great deal of Logic and Reason thrown at me by other people, [...]
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- And the monkey at the controls shouts "fair enough", and all else is forgot. 6 days ago
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