Santa Ana, CA – 4/2/2013 - The Democratic Party of Orange County (DPOC) voted unanimously on a Resolution to support President Obama’s proposed gun legislation. Recent tragedies of unimaginable scale, including the mass shootings in Newtown Connecticut, Aurora, Colorado and…
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Liberals Seek To be the Good Guys With Guns
by Chris Prevatt • • 4 Comments
In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre said; “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” As a Liberal, fighting the right-wing insanity that is Orange County, I find myself agreeing with Mr. LaPierre.
Tea Party Whack Jobs Send Me Mail
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
I’m on some conservative mailing list. It’s happened before. One of my co-workers once registered me for membership in the Republican National Committee as a joke and it was the source of lots of entertainment during the Bush years. And…
UCI’s Erwin Chemerinsky: Congress should repeal law protecting gun makers from liability
by Dan Chmielewski • • 14 Comments
UC-Irvine ‘s Erwin Chemerinsky published an article in The National Law Journal nearly three months ago that if drawing considerable review in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting. Chemerinsky points out that the Bush Administration and the Republican…
Drawing a line on guns not likely, but the conversation must happen
by Chris Prevatt • • 2 Comments
Dan Chmielewski asked on Friday “When are we going to have a meaningful conversation about Gun Control?” Now that smoke of gunfire has cleared the answer to Dan’s question seems clear. There will never be a good time to talk about gun control.
Colorado Shooting: Time to Tax Bullets?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 12 Comments
Second Amendment enthusiasts decried politicizing the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting, lamenting if there was someone in the theater who was armed, they could have taken the gunman out. That’s a big assumption in a darkened theater, and what it they hit an innocent bystander while returning fire?
Gunfight at the OC Corral
by Michael D. Fox • • 4 Comments
There’s a gunfight brewing in Orange County that would make a great John Wayne movie. But the plot of the movie depends on your political perspective and your view on gun control.
