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Which is the greater NRA failing: Clinical Paranoia or Willful Blindness?

Of the 12 deadliest mass shootings in American history, six have occurred since 2007.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Wayne Lapierre, CEO and executive VP of the NRA in his statement on Friday morning said: 'Now, I can imagine the shocking headlines you'll print tomorrow morning: ‘More guns,’ you'll claim, ‘are the NRA's answer to everything!’”

It's nice for the NRA for once to be truthful.

Life and Death of the Gun

Guns kill the equivalent of about ten 9/11s every year. Where are their monuments and Freedom Towers?

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Every morning, 312 million Americans get up and begin what they expect to be a normal day. About 80 of those every day end up on a slab in a morgue from gunshots.

Cowboy Rob

Cowboy Rob had been pushed from pillar to post ever since he arrived in Argentina last March.

(PATAGONIA, Argentina) - The latest chapter in the life of a wayward cowboy began with a garbled phone call on a sunny Monday afternoon.

Most of our calls are garbled because they are in Spanish and the earpiece in our cheap handset makes everyone sound like a frightened chicken. This call, however, was in English...

Guns in Switzerland

Gun advocates hold up Switzerland as an example of gun freedom--they could not be more wrong.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Uh-merican gun nuts prominently tout Switzerland as an example of a country that requires adult males to be armed and yet has a low firearms homicide rate.

It sounds good on the surface until you dig a little deeper (which right-wingers seldom do) and discover that not only are the differences between the two nations like night and day but that Switzerland and Finland routinely compete for the highest annual rate of gun death in Western Europe.

Brady Center Urges Appeals Court to Dismiss Challenge to Hawaii Gun Laws

The Brady Center’s brief cites data showing that Hawaii’s strong gun laws have helped Hawaii achieve the lowest gun death rate in the nation.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a brief today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit urging the court to dismiss a challenge to Hawaii’s strong gun laws restricting the carrying of loaded guns in public.

In April, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii dismissed the lawsuit that is now on appeal, finding that Hawaii’s gun laws restricting public gun carrying are consistent with the Second Amendment.

Mexican Diplomat Traded Secrets with Private Intel Firm Stratfor, WikiLeaks Documents Reveal

Exchange of Sensitive Information Focused on the US/Mexican Operations in the Drug War.

(LAS CRUCES, NM Narco News) - US soldiers are operating inside Mexico as part of the drug war and the Mexican government provided critical intelligence to US agents in the now-discredited Fast and Furious gun-running operation, a Mexican diplomat claims.

Canadians are not unarmed Americans with health care

Despite using the same language, reading the same books and magazines and watching the same movies Canadians are, at bottom, fundamentally different.

(Calgary, Alberta) - Known primarily as the oil capital of Canada, every July Calgary hosts the “Stampede” which attracts more than a million visitors to the city—from all over the world.

This year it attracted Walt Wawra and his wife—he a 20-year veteran of the Kalamazoo, MI police department.

Supreme Court Justice Suggests that `Hand-Held Rocket Launchers` Are Allowable Under the Second Amendment

We can only hope that at some point, Scalia realizes that rocket launchers were not the vision of the founding fathers when they gave Americans the right to bear arms.

(WASHINGTON DC KULTURE KRITIC) - During an appearance on Fox News this weekend, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said a few words that are surely going to get the attention of the liberal establishment.

During the interview, Scalia was asked about the recent shooting in Aurora Colorado and what it means to be able to “bear” arms.

Guns in Alberta

Did a grizzly bear warn Canada Customs that George Foster was on his way?

(Calgary, Alberta) - On February 21, 2012 George Foster, 54, of Florida, casually pulled up to customs at Sweetgrass, Montana, intending to cross into Canada. He pleaded guilty to four criminal and two smuggling related charges.

He said he had no firearms but officers found 75 guns, including 48 handguns, four of which were loaded; a blowgun, one pistol crossbow, and 12 high-capacity magazines hidden inside his pickup truck.

Indicting Wayne LaPierre et al at the NRA

Since the gun assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King in 1968, more than a million Americans have been killed by guns.

(Calgary, Alberta) - The NRA is an accessory to crimes against humanity within the United States itself. The New York Times, in an editorial two days after the Colorado movie theater murders, said, in part,

“Politicians are far too fearful of the gun lobby to address gun violence, and, as a society, we keep getting stuck on a theoretical debate about the Second Amendment..”