Category Archives: Guns, Guns, Guns

It’s Yeehawd, y’all (-Qaida)!

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Oh, those Taiwanese joke animators. They are sure quick off the mark, aren’t they? And right on point, too.

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Remember Montréal.

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Sabina Becker

26 years ago, as a third-year university student and feminist volunteer at the Queen’s Women’s Centre, I felt murder breathing down my neck. Walking to class every day, the ever-present Kingston slush seeping cold and damp through the seams of … Continue reading →

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Why it’s never “too soon” to talk about gun violence — or racism, or misogyny

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Every time there’s a gun massacre somewhere in the United States, every time there’s an occasion for them to finally start addressing the gun-crime connection, this happens: Right on cue, the NRA rolls out its paid-off bottom-feeder of the moment … Continue reading →

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A few random thoughts about race and gender (and religion, guns and terrorism)

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. For the past week or so, my mind’s been getting messed with by people who are idiots when it comes to race and gender. Not all of them the usual suspects of FUX Snooze, either. So I’ll beg your … Continue reading →

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Another paramilitary band broken up in Venezuela

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Venezuelan federal authorities are always on the lookout for paramilitaries. And no wonder: Ever since Chavecito rose to power (and Madurito succeeded him), the old ruling classes have had this ongoing problem with actual, functioning, democratically-elected government. They don’t want … Continue reading →

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Ex-DEA agent slams Salazar, CIA and DEA

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Celerino Castillo busted his ass in the 1980s trying to get to the bottom of the Nicaraguan cocaine trafficking networks in Central America. Imagine his horror when he found out that the very same US government he was working for … Continue reading →

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Bad news for ammosexuals

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Music, Maestro Cummings: Ah, that was lovely. And now, the news. First, the sublime: It looks as though John “Mary Rosh” Lott has been definitively debunked, by real scientists not in the pocket of the gunmakers’ lobby. Instead of “More … Continue reading →

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Canada’s real terrorism problem

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Sabina Becker

This mosque in Cold Lake, Alberta, was spray-painted by xenophobic vandals. The town is home to an airbase from which CF-18 jet fighters recently departed en route to the war zone of Iraq. The people of Cold Lake have since … Continue reading →

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Argentine torturers took military courses in Spain — and vice versa

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Sabina Becker

A cordial letter from the Spanish ministry of exterior relations to the Embassy of Argentina in Madrid. Note the date stamp: September 14, 1979. Even at the height of the junta’s horrors, Spain was awfully chummy with Argentina. Spain supposedly … Continue reading →

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Open Carry gunbunny gets jacked

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Think you’ll be safer if you’re toting a firearm in plain sight? Think again. This “open carry” gun guy got robbed of his brand-new piece…at gunpoint: A man practicing his open carry right was robbed of the gun he was … Continue reading →