The Gun debate sandbox

" The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."

not only that, but it was a couple of centuries ago when people wore tri corn hats.

Times change, at least in some minds

So when you raise a red herring in your argument against guns you lose me. Not a valid point.

WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama will announce the Omnibus AK-47 Relief Executive Order, which among other things will allow for the open-carry of AK-47 rifles by black citizens in all National Parks ...

A Kansas gun store owner shot during an attempted robbery Friday afternoon has died, police said.

John Bieker, co-owner of She's a Pistol in Shawnee, was one of four people shot after four assailants tried to rob the shop about 2:10 p.m., said city spokesman Dan Ferguson.

Three of the suspects were also shot, and a co-owner of the store suffered minor injuries.

An apparent bathroom stalker on the Riverside City College campus attacked a student, who stabbed him in the neck with a pencil, campus police said Thursday.

The student was washing her hands in a women's restroom in the Math/Science building when she looked behind her and saw the man, campus Police Chief Jim Miyashiro said in a statement.

She told police he pushed her to the ground and tried to rape her. She then stabbed him in the neck with the pencil. He got off of her, and she ran to class.

A 9-month-old baby boy died Monday after he was shot in the head by his 5-year-old brother in their grandfather's Missouri home, police said.

The 5-year-old found his grandfather's .22-caliber revolver in the bedroom and was playing with it when he ended up shooting his younger brother, said Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White. The baby was in a playpen in the same room and the bullet struck him in the head.

"He was apparently fascinated by the gun, as most young kids would be," White said.

The 9-month-old was flown to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, where he later died.

A Fresno teen accidentally shot himself Sunday as he tried to intimidate his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, police said.

The teen fired half a dozen rounds into the air in front of a home at about 1:30 a.m. before the gun jammed, according to Fresno police.

He tried to clear the gun, and that's when he shot himself in the leg.

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