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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Guns make you safe?

Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:52 PM

Tell that to the family of a Eureka Springs woman killed by a man with a handgun he shouldn't have been able to buy. Huffington Post reports.

Might universal background checks discourage private sale of handguns to domestic abusers? Hard to see how they could hurt.

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Guns make you safe?

Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:52 PM

Speaking of...

In for a penny .... Asa Hutchinson, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, seems happy to be indelibly branded as the NRA's front man on guns as the calendar rolls toward the May gubernatorial primary. /more/

John Lyon of Stephens Media examines at some length today a simmering topic in the gun nut community that is of general interest. /more/

Winners in the Hog Roast. Asa Hutchinson speaks to NRA. Gun nuts argue that open carry now legal in Arkansas. /more/

Good to be associated with the extremists of the NRA? In Arkansas Republican circles, the answer is a big ja wohl! /more/

As several have noted, David Letterman made Mark Pryor his stooge of the night last night for his vote with the NRA to defeat legislation to expand gun purchase background checks to gun shows. /more/

Joe Nocera writes this morning about the vote to block legislation to expand gun purchase background checks and his pursuit of an answer to why from the four Democrats, including Sen. Mark Pryor, who stood in the way of a vote. /more/

The midweek line commences. Final words: * PISTOL PACKIN' PRYOR: Of course Sen. Mark Pryor voted with the NRA and against the Senate measure to broaden gun background checks, a measure supported by liberals like John McCain and Joe Manchin. /more/

Still more stuff to roundup this morning; * MARK PRYOR'S ALLIANCE WITH THE NRA: I've noted before Sen. Mark Pryor's alliance with the NRA on legislation supposedly aimed at reducing gun purchases by the mentally ill. The NRA favor reduced gun purchases? /more/

Who wants to be like Connecticut? HIgh per capita income. /more/

Fiction is as strange as truth. Noted, the article on which the headline above is based is written by Andy Borowitz, a humorist for New Yorker. /more/

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