Clerk with concealed gun permit shoots 2 robbers at cellphone store

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An employee at a Far South Side cellphone retailer shot two would-be robbers late Wednesday morning, at least the second time in a week a worker has shot two robbery suspects at a Chicago business, according to police and store officials.

More Lies and Nonsense from La Pierre

#NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has a challenge for the president. https://t.co/xzM1NnsZpF #2A @POTUS

— NRA (@NRA) 14 Gennaio 2016

"The American people know a liar when they see one."

The Gap Between Gun Deaths in the U.S. and Other Advanced Nations Is Getting Wider

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2003

• U.S. gun death rate: 2.8
• U.S. gun homicide rate: 4.1
• U.S. gun suicide rate: 5.8
• U.S. unintentional gun death rate: 0.3

• Other high income countries’ gun death rate: 0.2
• Other high income countries’ gun homicide rate: 0.2
• Other high income countries’ gun suicide rate: 1.0
• Other high income countries’ unintentional gun death rate: 0.0

2010

• U.S. gun death rate: 2.7
• U.S. gun homicide rate: 3.6
• U.S. gun suicide rate: 6.3
• U.S. unintentional gun death rate: 0.2

• Other high income countries’ gun death rate: 0.1
• Other high income countries’ gun homicide rate: 0.1
• Other high income countries’ gun suicide rate: 0.8
• Other high income countries’ unintentional gun death rate: 0.0

Smart Gun Technology

Identilock smart gun lock

This biometric gun lock is one step towards the "smart guns" President Obama is asking for.

Posted by The Verge on Saturday, January 9, 2016

Making a Killing

Making A Killing: Guns, Greed & the NRA • OFFICIAL TRAILER

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Posted by Brave New Films on Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The Problem with Private Sellers of Guns

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Lewisbey made so much cash from the gun sales that he had to bury some of it in his backyard. Yet he insisted that his gun business wasn’t a business at all. Rather, he maintained that he was a hobbyist. His lawyers claimed he bought guns in Indiana to add to his collection, from which he sold the occasional firearm — hardly enough to require him to get a license from the ATF and conduct background checks on his buyers.

David Bowie - Running Gun Blues

The Idiocy of Guns in the Home

Some harsh statistics for those who still believe guns make their families "safer" courtesy of @ChildDefender. pic.twitter.com/NPjeW27b71

— March on Washington (@GunCtrlMarch) January 9, 2016