4 posts tagged ‘guns’
The Dead Children We Must See
The New Yorker,
It’s time for Americans to rethink their squeamishness about releasing the photos of the youngest victims of mass violence.
Watch a real firearms historian tear apart video game guns
Boing Boing,
The unconscionably huge Modern Warfare 3 naturally features more guns than you can shake a stick at. It's not the story or gameplay these guns are attached to that weapons expert and Royal Armouries museum curator Jonathan Ferguson is concerned with, though- it's the guns themselves. — Read the rest
Eugene the M16 is a "Cute, Squishy, Tactical Japanese Kawaii Style Assault Rifle"
Meet "Eugene the M16," a plush toy in the shape of an M16 automatic assault rifle. Yes, you read that correctly. Just when you thought America's obsession with guns couldn't get any worse, a company called "TactiCouture" is currently running a Kickstarter to raise money to produce the first in a product line it's calling "Battlemallows." — Read the rest
Teens bring guns to school across America on a daily basis
After stumbling upon two articles today in which two different high school students were arrested or expelled for bringing a gun to school, I did a quick Google search. Turns out in just a few minutes I easily found eight different stories about middle and high school students bringing guns to school, all just this week. — Read the rest