In June, The Shinbone Star published Trump’s Support For Militarized Policing Can Get You Killed, in part lamenting the practice of American police departments’ use of 12-gauge pump shotguns as the final exclamation point in a crisis. The comments were tangential to an inquiry into why Donald Trump is encouraging vacuous yahoos brandishing military grade […]
A headline in The Washington Post on Wednesday screamed, “Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmakers in a bind.” Donald J. Trump’s incessant drum beating has reached enough disenfranchised fools with guns seeking liberation from frustrations they can’t otherwise escape. In their own bizarre way, the raging boys […]
Watching ignorant gun owners — all male — armed with semi-automatic rifles and pistols, storm a state capitol, sticking their ugly faces inches away from very tolerant state police, it makes one want to scream loudly. Donald Trump, you ignorant asshole, there “are no good people here.” Period. Seeing these low IQ creatures wave their […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: When Shinbone Star artist and contributor Skye Hunter (not her real name) woke up last week to news of the massacre in New Zealand, she set down her thoughts on Facebook. It is reprinted here with her permission. By SKYE HUNTER I woke up this morning and after my shower I went downstairs to get […]
Rose Mallinger lived 97 years before being shot down by an anti-Semitic lunatic who shared his life with a family of Glock pistols, an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, and a social media page called gab.com, home to a handful of like-minded people who equate free speech with guns and hatred. Robert Bowers gunned Mrs. Mallinger down […]
Reading today’s story by former-and-still colleague Christine Lavin jogged my memory of events in the newspaper business. I have never seen the business end of a weapon, and hope that I never will. But Chris’ memories of newspaper security are more or less right on. When I worked at The Beaumont Enterprise in Texas, I […]
When I was the editor of The Oakland Tribune back in the 1990s I kept a loaded Glock in my top drawer. I take issue with the blanket news reports that the Annapolis shooting at the Capital Gazette, which killed four journalists and an employee, was a “surprise, a shock.” Newspapers in the ‘90s — and even more so […]
Last Thursday, Oval Office Occupant Don Trump told reporters that he and his team would be having “fun” on a trip to Texas where the president would meet with survivors from the deadly school shooting in Santa Fe. He met privately with more than two dozen people affected by the shooting and didn’t publicly share […]
When Parkland, Fla. high school students proclaimed that the February 2018 shooting at their school would be “the last mass shooting,” sadly, we knew it wouldn’t be true. After all this is America, where too many people love their guns more than the life of your child. After another horrific school shooting today, this time […]
Manuel Oliver is an artist whose son, Joaquin, was among the victims in the Parkland High School massacre. He has become a noted critic of the NRA, the nation’s gun laws and the cowardice of American politicians who won’t stand up to the gun-rights organization and it’s payoffs — uh, campaign contributions. The Shinbone Star […]
Mostly in the shadow of Dallas City Hall, two generations of gun attack victims were together on Saturday just up the street from the annual convention of the National Rifle Association. The catalyst for youth and adults who want to do something about the proliferation of automatic weapons in the U.S. was, of course, the […]
Perhaps before the day is out, in various media availabilities, National Rifle Association spokesmen will have something to say about the concerns that they’re receiving money from Russian oligarchs — money they use for . . . well, what DO they use that money for? And aren’t the Russians suddenly trying a little too hard […]
We’re expecting more than 70,000 Americans, many of them gun-totin’, to attend this year’s convention of the National Rifle Association this week here in Dallas. Registration was yesterday and I was expecting a 101-gun salute, but it didn’t happen. That would have commemorated the number of lives sacrificed across the country since the last […]
Yellow-bellied, draft-dodger Ted Nugent is now a board member for the National Rifle Association and has compared Democrats to “rabid coyotes” that should be hunted and shot. “Keep your gun handy,” Ted said, “and every time you see one, you shoot one.” Ted, you will remember, was too cowardly to go to Vietnam. “Took a […]
All she wanted was to go to school. Linda Brown, whose father Oliver was the named plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, died on Sunday in Topeka, Kansas. She was 75. It was the Topeka Board of Education that refused to enroll Brown in an all-white school in 1950 when she was 6 years […]
Dear NRA, Wayne LaPierre, Dana Loesch, Congress & Donald Trump: How does it feel to be in the crosshairs of a powerful projectile? Millions of young soon-to-be voters are pissed at you and your failure to protect them from being murdered with vile semi-automatic AR-15s. Millions across the nation are speaking and singing a loud message. […]
Ever wonder who has the most really nasty guns, the kind intended for killing dangerous enemies? Did you guess hunters, militias, militant groups, or perhaps radical fringe groups with long guns and bad attitudes? How about biker gangs, dope dealers, all manner of thugs, survivalists or cops? Nope, none of the above. Since the turn […]
Donald Trump insisted earlier this week that he will unilaterally “ban bump stocks,” the gun accessory used to simulate automatic rifle fire, even if lawmakers decline to take up the issue. “I’m writing that out myself. I don’t care if Congress does it or not. I am writing it out myself,” Psycho said this week […]
Marion Hammer, the National Rifle Association’s Florida lobbyist, owns the balls of that state’s legislators. Because of this miserable piece of dung, Florida has been the model for the loosest gun laws in the nation. Hammer, 78, is nearing four decades as the most influential gun lobbyist in the United States. According to The New Yorker, […]
Sometimes the wings of a butterfly can start a hurricane. Emma Gonzalez, the 18-year-old senior and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 of her classmates and teachers, is that butterfly. Her impassioned 11-minute speech at an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale just two days after […]
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