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Art. Culture. Apocalypse.
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Obama Responds to Gun Control Petitions →
Now if we can just keep NRA-owned Republicans from killing meaningful legislation…
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Sign this petition to ban assault weapons! (It's super easy). →
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
place an immediate ban on the sale of high capacity, military derived semiautomatic rifles.
High capacity, military derived rifles like the Bushmaster .223 that killed 26 at Sandy Hook have no clear benefit to our common good. On the other hand, they put civilians at great risk to mass violence from lone shooters. Although gun control alone cannot end violence, the reinstating of the expired assault weapons ban— WITH provisions that prevent easy workarounds for weapons manufacturers— would be one definitive step toward reducing the scope and magnitude of mass violence in the U.S.
One person’s freedom to bear arms must always be tempered with the consideration for others’ freedom to reasonable safety. We already regulate “arms;” for example, private citizens can’t own missiles or manufacture IEDs. The question is: where do we draw the line? I say, we draw the line HERE.
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America Must Ban Assault Weapons Now: Guns: This Is Where We Draw The Line →
By Brett Sholtis
Figure 1: Olivia Engel, six, killed at Sandy Hook
Figure 2: Advertisement for a Bushmaster .223
Like most people right now, I am profoundly saddened by the news of the school shooting in Sandy Hook, which left twenty children and six adults dead at the hands of…
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I sent this to my friend, to which his fiancee replied, “Maybe it wasn’t your heart you were following.”
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Just in case you ever decide to play D&D.
I do play D&D and my character is a Fey Corgi Barbarian.
oh my god
IT’S DEADLY AND ADORABLE
oh my god xD
I love this!!!
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New Study Definitively Links Armed-Conflicts to Climate Change →
The study was released this morning and published by the National Academy of Sciences. It’s free to download, and looks at over 16,000 conflicts during 1990-2009.
Look, Obama and Romney need to discuss climate change tonight, even if it’s in the context of national security - it has to happen.
A study relating climate to conflict in East African nations finds that increased rainfall dampens conflict while unusually hot periods can cause a flare-up, reinforcing the theory that climate change will cause increased scarcity in the region. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Politicians and many scientists have called climate change a security risk, based on the idea that unusual variations in weather are likely to put immense strain on rural societies dependent on farming and livestock for survival. But the results of studies trying to confirm such a hypothesis have been mixed.
The authors of the new study, from the University of Colorado and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, believe that problems with previous studies may have contributed to previous failures to link climate and conflict, including the use of data only at the country level rather than at the regional or local level.
Instead, the researchers used a conflict database called the Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, or ACLED, which provides location-specific tracking of individual events across Africa — from large-scale acts of war to local fights over farmland.
(via emergentfutures)
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