Orlando Shooting
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GOP's Overall Message to LGBTs: We Don’t Actually Want You Dead, Okay?
Are we really seeing a culture shift or a new marketing strategy for the war on terror?
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Brickbat: What You Don't Know
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How America's Counter-Terrorism Model Is Making American Less Safe and Free
The Orlando massacre shows the folly of fighting a decentralized terrorism model with centralization.
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Impotent Gun-Grabbery, Redacted Islam, Deflated Trump, and O.J. All Day: The New Fifth Column
Three-headed podcast argues amongst itself over race, terrorism, and...infrastructure?
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And Now the Republicans Will Try to Use Orlando Attack to Undermine Citizens’ Rights
Attempt to expand unwarranted FBI surveillance authority fails (barely) in Senate.
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The Useful Illogic of 'Assault Weapon' Bans
Their arbitrariness lets them pass constitutional muster while paving the way for broader gun control
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Don’t Be Deceived: Democrats’ Gun Control Push Is Not Limited to Those on No-Fly List
Feinstein’s bill would affect hundreds of thousands of people, not just suspected terrorists.
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What Will Gun Controllers Do When Americans Ignore an ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban?
Prohibitions have a long history of stumbling over people’s unwillingness to obey. This time won’t be any different.
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All 4 Senate Gun Bills Fail Today
Two bills to restrict "terror watchlist" people from getting guns, two to strengthen federal background check system in general, all fail to garner needed 60 votes in Senate. Sen. Rand Paul angers some Second Amendment activists by voting for one of the terror suspect bills.
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Talkin' Orlando Conspiracy Theories on Public Radio
KCRW interviews Jesse Walker.
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Where Did the Justice Dept. Learn to Censor Info About Violent Attacks? From the Public (Updated: Redactions Reversed)
Here are your unintended consequences for demanding media censor info about mass killers.
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The Second Amendment, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution
What the historical evidence says about the Second Amendment and individual rights.
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Feinstein Made Her Gun Control Bill Even Worse
The Senate will soon consider her proposal and two others aimed at stopping "suspected terrorists" from buying firearms.
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After Orlando, Irrelevant Solutions Dominate Discussion
Violence leads to parade of bad or useless policy proposals.
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Friday A/V Club: Pink Pistols, Bill O'Reilly, and the Lesbian Gang Menace
Cable news at its cable-newsiest
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America Needs a New, Decentralized Counter Terrorism Paradigm in the Wake of the Orlando Tragedy
Giving more draconian powers to intelligence bureaucracies will make us less free, not more safe
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Poll Shows the Partisan Gulf in Views of Orlando Attack’s Causes
Yet all sides seem to support one really terrible solution.
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Libertarian Gary Johnson on Denying Second Amendment Rights Based on Unadjudicated Suspicion
He's against it, because he thinks government watchlists can never be free of people who shouldn't be on them.
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Of Course the Second Amendment Protects an Individual Right
Correcting the record about guns and the Constitution.
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Will Orlando Shooting Derail Thomas Massie's War on Warrantless Data Collection?
'You can’t waive the Fourth Amendment just because it’s not convenient,' says Massie.