Pax on both houses: Gun Violence Bibliography. A Hundred Carefully Chosen Resources

Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership, Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH; et al, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 327, No. 7, August 13, 1992, pp. 467-472. Key Statistic: The presence of one or more guns in the home increases the risk of suicide in the home nearly five times. http://www.vpc.org/studies/whersuic.htm

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Guns in homes increase risk of death and firearm-related violence

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100204/Guns-in-homes-can-increase-risk-of-death-and-firearm-related-violence.aspx

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Firearm Access Is A Risk Factor For Suicide: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/risk/index.html

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Guns in home increase likelihood of violent death: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full

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Sandy Hook Kindergarten Carnage

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/sandy-hook-kindergarten-slaughter-guns.html

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The Bushmaster AR-15: Adam Lanza’s Weapon Of Choice

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-bushmaster-ar-15-adam-lanzas-weapon.html

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Tom Toles: "Arguments in favor of gun control"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/tom-toles-arguments-in-favor-of-gun.html

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Post Sandy Hook Republicans Cower On Gun Control

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/post-sandy-hook-republicans-cower-on.html

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NRA Takes Down Facebook Page

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/nra-takes-down-facebook-page-goes.html

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God and Gun Control: Shootings Prompt Religious Debate

http://www.religionlink.com/tip_120806.php

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Iranian Woman Asks: “Why Did Nancy Lanza Love Guns? Probably The Same Reason I Did.”

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/iranian-woman-asks-why-did-nancy-lanza.html

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Gun Stores Are Selling Out Of The Rifle Used To Kill 27 People In Connecticut

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/gun-stores-are-selling-out-of-rifle.html

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Are Israeli Teachers Armed?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-israeli-teachers-armed.html

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Sales of Kids Armored Backpacks Soar

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/sales-of-kids-armored-backpacks-soar.html

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A Story Of The NRA’s Influence – In Two Charts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-story-of-nras-influence-in-2-charts.html

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Is It Time To Distribute Handguns At The Entrance Of Every Public Place?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/it-is-time-to-distribute-handguns-to.html

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The Killing Of American Children Has Become An American Norm – Richard Cohen

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-killing-of-children-has-become-us.html

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Will Our Anger Be Buried Alongside Newtown’s Dead? – Jay Bookman

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/will-our-anger-be-buried-alongside.html

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The Killing Of Children; Our National Shame – Richard Cohen

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-killing-of-children-our-national.html

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Sandy Hook Parent, Lynn and Chris McDonnell, Live Through Grace

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/sandy-hook-parents-chris-and-lynn.html

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Diane Rehm: Mass Shootings And Their Affect On The American Psyche

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/diane-rehm-mass-shootings-and-their.html

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Do Concealed Weapon Laws Result In Less Crime?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/do-concealed-weapon-laws-result-in-less.html

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Text: Fresh Air's Assault-Style Weapons In The Civilian Market

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/text-fresh-airs-assault-style-weapons.html

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The Second Amendment: Would Jesus Pack?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/second-amendment-would-jesus-pack.html

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Second Amendment Expansion; First Amendment Contraction

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/second-

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The Debacle of Gun Control

(Since 1968 handguns, not rifles have been used to kill one million Americans)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-debacle-of-gun-control-richard-cohen.html

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NRA Stopped CDC Research On Gun Violence

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/nra-stopped-cdc-research-on-gun-violence.html

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Have Gun, Will Travel

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/have-gun-will-travel.html

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Pro-Gun Senators More Deadly Than Al Qaeda

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/pro-gun-senators-more-deadly-than-al.html

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“Why More Guns Won't Make Us Safer”

Sean Faircloth

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/why-more-guns-wont-make-us-safer-by.html

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Guns Save Lives

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/05/guns-save-lives.html

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Gun Saves Lives 2

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/guns-save-lives-2.html

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I Don't Get This Gun Cartoon...
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/i-dont-get-this-gun-cartoon.html

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The Collapse of Civilization:

Now we can legally kill people if we "feel" threatened by them.

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Gun Cartoons From The Washington Post
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/gun-cartoons-from-washington-post.html

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Do these folks have any functioning synapses?

Jesus Christ!

(a prayer)

The Second Amendment:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

This amendment begins with the phrase "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state." The amendment begins with these words because not one of The Founding Fathers believed in a "standing army," preferring instead local militias that could be quickly mustered into unified force.

http://www.madisonbrigade.com/library_bor.htm

The right to "keep and bear arms" derives from citizen participation in well-regulated militias.

Absent citizen participation in a "well-regulated militia" there is not constitutional right to bear arms.

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"Christian Nationalism"

-- and its perennial insistence that violence is a solution to every problem --

would make Jesus puke.

More Guns © Pat Bagley,Salt Lake Tribune,Guns, Utah, Tucson shooting, Concealed, Weapon, Gun Control, Glock, Gabby, Giffords, Gabrielle, Loughner, Arizona, Rampage, Assassination, NRA, Chaffetz, Lee

Settle down alarmists.

Sane citizens can keep their six shooters.

They can buy single shot rifles.

They can own double barrel shotguns.
Such accessibility is beyond dispute.
(If Justice Scalia were to follow his own jurisprudential principles, he would praise this interpretation of the Constitution as consistent with "original intent.")

NRA: It's time to add kindergartens to the list of "places to avoid."

The reason we are unable to impose reasonable controls on especially lethal weapons

is that the people who own most of them are crazy enough to have them confiscated.

Here's one of the crazies now...

And another...

Hey! What a great idea!

Every mother packs a semi-automatic assault rifle...

(... thus making it five times more likely her children will die from a bullet.)

Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership, Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH; et al, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 327, No. 7, August 13, 1992, pp. 467-472. Key Statistic: The presence of one or more guns in the home increases the risk of suicide in the home nearly five times. http://www.vpc.org/studies/whersuic.htm

The Right-Wing Dream!

Absolute Safety vouchsafed by ubiquitous firearms.

Of course, if every passenger can "pack," then every terrorist would have a firearm... and only a few of the passengers. (Would you take a firearm on board?)

Those who think ubiquitous firearms are a solution to any of life's problems contribute to the problem.

The possibility that well-armed citizens will perform acts of sudden, salvific heroicism when the criminal already "has the drop" is vanishingly remote.

Such wishful thinking is the product of arrested development, the vestigial puerility of little kids playing at "cowboys and Indians."

Many more innocent Americans are killed by firearms "in the home" than the piddling number of Americans saved by domestic firearm heroics.

When, at rare intervals, such heroics do occur, they tend to result in the death of property thieves who harbor no violent intent.

Where are the Christian literalists when we need them?

“You have heard it said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But now I tell you: do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek too. And if someone takes you to court to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well. And if one of the occupation troops forces you to carry his pack one mile, carry it two miles. When someone asks you for something, give it to him; when someone wants to borrow something, lend it to him. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your friends, hate your enemies.’ But now I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil. Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? Even the tax collectors do that! And if you speak only to your friends, have you done anything out of the ordinary? Even the pagans do that! You must be whole—just as your Father in heaven is whole."

I am 65 years old and have friends "on both sides of the aisle." I have never heard any of them say that their firearm saved a life.

On the flip side of this coin, I have heard several friends say firearms were used by family members to kill themselves.

Whether by accident... or sudden eruption of anger... or by psychological disease... firearms in citizens' homes exact a terrifyingly high toll with correspondingly trivial benefit.

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"One of the most disturbing facts that came out in the [Adolf] Eichmann trial was that a psychiatrist examined him and pronounced him perfectly sane. I do not doubt it at all, and that is precisely why I find it disturbing. . . The sanity of Eichmann is disturbing. We equate sanity with a sense of justice, with humaneness, with prudence, with the capacity to love and understand other people. We rely on the sane people of the world to preserve it from barbarism, madness, destruction. And now it begins to dawn on us that it is precisely the sane ones who are the most dangerous. It is the sane ones, the well-adapted ones, who can without qualms and without nausea aim the missiles and press the buttons that will initiate the great festival of destruction that they, the sane ones, have prepared. What makes us so sure, after all, that the danger comes from a psychotic getting into a position to fire the first shot in a nuclear war? Psychotics will be suspect. The sane ones will keep them far from the button. No one suspects the sane, and the sane ones will have perfectly good reasons, logical, well-adjusted reasons, for firing the shot. They will be obeying sane orders that have come sanely down the chain of command. And because of their sanity they will have no qualms at all. When the missiles take off, then, it will be no mistake."

"A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann" in Raids on the Unspeakable." Thomas Merton - New York: New Directions Publishing Co., 1964

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Merton: "The best imposed as a norm, becomes evil."

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes.html

Thomas Merton Quotations:

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/thomas-merton-quotations.html

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