hollow-gram:

Saturday Night Live 36x12

“When you talk about guns you always hear a lot about the Second Amendment and the Founding Fathers, and what they would say if they were here. Well, I for one think that if the Founding Fathers were here today, they would be super freaked out by cars. You can talk to them all you want about the Second Amendment, and they would just yell, ‘What are all these metal beasts doing rolling down the thoroughfare?’ And you’d tell them, ‘Those are cars’. And then you’d try to talk to them about militias and they would scream, ‘How can you speak of militias when steel dragons fly through the sky?’ And you’d say, ‘Those are airplanes.’ But even if they could wrap their heads around that they would eventually ask, ‘Why are all the slaves out?’ And they would think that. You can groan all you want, but they would think that.

And yes, the Founding Fathers wanted you to have the right to bear arms, but the guys who wrote that would pee through all eight layers of their pants if they saw what guns are now. In 1787 shooting a bullet was slightly faster than throwing one. If you wanted to be bulletproof in 1787 you put on a heavy coat. So with that in mind, I’m all about Americans having guns as long as they’re the muskets from 1787 that take forever to load.”

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61 in 30 years: A timeline of mass shootings in America
December 15, 2012

On Friday morning, 27 people were reportedly shot and killed  at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT. According to sources, 18 of these casualties were children. This is the second mass shooting in the US this week, after a gunmanopened fire  in an Oregon shopping mall on Tuesday, killing 2. ABC News reports that there have been 31 school shootings in the US since Columbine in 1999, when 13 people were killed.

The rate of people killed by guns in the US is  19.5 times higher  than similar high-income countries in the world. In the last 30 years since 1982, America has mourned at least 61 mass murders . Below is a timeline of mass shootings in the US since the Columbine High massacre:

• December 11, 2012. On Tuesday, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts  killed 2 people and himself with a stolen rifle in Clackamas Town Center, Oregon. His motive is unknown.
• September 27, 2012. Five were  shot to death  by 36-year-old Andrew Engeldinger at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, MN. Three others were wounded. Engeldinger went on a rampage after losing his job, ultimately killing himself.
• August 5, 2012. Six Sikh temple members were killed  when 40-year-old US Army veteran Wade Michael Page opened fire in a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Four others were injured, and Page killed himself.
• July 20, 2012. During the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, CO, 24-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people  and wounded 58. Holmes was arrested outside the theater.
• May 29, 2012. Ian Stawicki opened fire  on Cafe Racer Espresso in Seattle, WA, killing 5 and himself after a citywide manhunt.
• April 6, 2012. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, shot 5 black men in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in racially motivated shooting spree. Three died.
• April 2, 2012. A former student, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed 7 people  at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, CA. The shooting was the sixth-deadliest school massacre in the US and the deadliest attack on a school since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
• October 14, 2011. Eight people died in a shooting at Salon Meritage  hair salon in Seal Beach, CA. The gunman, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai, killed six women and two men dead, while just one woman survived. It was Orange County’s deadliest mass killing.
• September 6, 2011. Eduardo Sencion, 32, entered an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, NV and shot 12 people. Five died, including three National Guard members.
• January 8, 2011. Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head  when 22-year-old Jared Loughner opened fire on an event she was holding at a Safeway market in Tucson, AZ. Six people died, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a 9-year-old girl. 19 total were shot. Loughner has been sentenced to seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole.
• August 3, 2010. Omar S. Thornton, 34, gunned down  Hartford Beer Distributor in Manchester, CT after getting caught stealing beer. Nine were killed, including Thornton, and two were injured.
• November 5, 2009. Forty-three people were shot  by Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. Hasan reportedly yelled “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, killing 13 and wounding 29 others.
• April 3, 2009. Jiverly Wong, 41, opened fire  at an immigration center in Binghamton, New York before committing suicide. He killed 13 people and wounded 4.
• March 29, 2009. Eight people died in a shooting  at the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, NC. The gunman, 45-year-old Robert Stewart, was targeting his estranged wife who worked at the home and survived. Stewart was sentenced to life in prison.
• February 14, 2008. Steven Kazmierczak, 27,  opened fire  in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing 6 and wounding 21. The gunman shot and killed himself before police arrived. It was the fifth-deadliest university shooting in US history.
• February 7, 2008. Six people died and two were injured in a  shooting spree  at the City Hall in Kirkwood, Missouri. The gunman, Charles Lee Thornton, opened fire during a public meeting after being denied construction contracts he believed he deserved. Thornton was killed by police.
• December 5, 2007. A 19-year-old boy, Robert Hawkins,  shot up  a department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE. Hawkins killed 9 people and wounded 4 before killing himself. The semi-automatic rifle he used was stolen from his stepfather’s house.
• April 16, 2007. Virginia Tech became the site of the  deadliest school shooting  in US history when a student, Seung-Hui Choi, gunned down 56 people. Thirty-two people died in the massacre.
• February 12, 2007. In Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square Mall, 5 people were  shot to death  and 4 others were wounded by 18-year-old gunman Sulejman Talović. One of the victims was a 16-year-old boy.
• October 2, 2006. An Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, PA was  gunned down  by 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts, Roberts separated the boys from the girls, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were injured. Roberts committed suicide afterward.
• March 25, 2006. Seven died and 2 were injured by 28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff in a shooting spree  through Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA. The massacre was the worst killing in Seattle since 1983.
• March 21, 2005. Teenager Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend before  opening fire  on Red Lake Senior High School, killing 9 people on campus and injuring 5. Weise killed himself.
• March 12, 2005. A Living Church of God meeting was  gunned down  by 44-year-old church member Terry Michael Ratzmann at a Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, WI. Ratzmann was thought to have had religious motivations, and killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old son, and 7 others. Four were wounded.
• July 8, 2003. Doug Williams, a Lockheed Martin employee,  shot up  his plant in Meridian, MI in a racially-motivated rampage. He shot 14 people, most of them African American, and killed 7.
• September 15, 1999. Larry Gene Ashbrook  opened fire  on a Christian rock concert and teen prayer rally at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX. He killed 7 people and wounded 7 others, almost all teenagers. Ashbrook committed suicide.
• July 29, 1999. Mark Orrin Barton, 44,  murdered his wife and two children with a hammer before shooting up two Atlanta day trading firms. Barton, a day trader, was believed to be motivated by huge monetary losses. He killed 12 including his family and injured 13 before killing himself.
• April 20, 1999. In the deadliest high school shooting in US history, teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold  shot up Columbine High School  in Littleton, CO. They killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. They killed themselves after the massacre.

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babanees:

lipstick-feminists:

Beginning August 1st, 2012 a whole range of crucial health care services will start becoming available  with no cost-sharing like co-pays or deductibles, thanks to Pres. Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

YES! 

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babbybunnybutts:

THANK YOU

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seoulsister:

This is NOT okay at all. 

Here’s the number for the hospital that did it, flood it with phone calls. Reblog this and stuff, friends that have followers.

            (732) 914-3800

SPREAD THIS SHIT LIKE WILDFIRE.

GODDAMMIT.

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typeless:

Ibtihaj Muhammad

First African-American Muslim female fencer in the history of the Olympics represents the United States.

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When gays get so angry about a chicken sandwich, it is because Chick-fil-A has given around $5 million to fight to discriminate against us. When we praise brave Eagle Scouts who give up their badges in protest of the Boy Scouts of America’s prejudice, it’s not about scoring political points; it’s because there are kids in dens who are being taught to believe that they are less than equal. When we rant about the pastor who preaches that gays should be thrown into a concentration camp, we scream out of fear. And our fears are justified — in the last seven days, a lesbian in Nebraska was carved with a knife, a gay man in Oklahoma was firebombed, and a girl in Kentucky was kicked and beaten — her jaw broken and her teeth knocked out — while her assailants allegedly hurled anti-gay slurs at her.

Conor Gaughan - “We Are Not Arguing Over Chicken” (Huffington Post)

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Petition against "gender testing" in the Olympics ›

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littlefishsticks:

Okay, I wish I would NEVER have to make a post like this.. but here it is.
That’s Emily, a girl I’ve known for about 10 years. That’s her face a couple of days after her boyfriend beat the shit out of her. She has to get facial surgery for broken bones, a titanium plate inserted for her “pulverized cheekbones”.
She has been amazingly open about her experience and very optimistic, retaining her sense of humour, but her ex-boyfriend hasn’t been caught yet. He beat her in Arizona but he might be out of the state by now.
His name is Chris Young. He’s a raver and a DJ. I’m not friends with him on facebook, so I can’t get any better pictures than that. But you can see that she trusted him. And he broke that trust in trying to break her.
If you see him, please call the Tucson Police. IF you know ANYTHING about him, call the police.
It’d be great if people could reblog this for her.

Yes, reblogging this WILL make you blog look ugly because domestic violence is ugly. Reblog it anyways.

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blua:

VIDEO OF COPS SHOOTING AT CHILDREN AND RELEASING K9s at a crowd of women and children in Anaheim, California. 

THIS IS WHERE YOU CONTACT THEM: http://www.anaheim.net/section.asp?id=124

DO YOUR JOB TUMBLR

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face-down-asgard-up:

However you feel about Anne, bravo to her for this take down.

Watch interviews with her and with ScarJo about their comic book films. Watch how they always get questions about their bodies and clothing and diets and blah blah blah fucking blah. Watch as the male cast members do not get the same treatment.

Because apparently all we care about when it comes to actresses are their bodies and not, ya know, their acting.

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an0m0ly:

Damage

This is not my usual post. But it’s something I had to share. As you read this, imagine how your reaction would differ if this story were being told by a woman, talking about how her husband treated her.

I have been separated from my wife for over a year, though we continue to share a house. We live on separate floors. We share the house because we need to parent our son together, and because we can’t afford to maintain two households.

I’d like to tell you a story, illustrating one reason why I am divorcing her. This is an example of the treatment I have received over the past fourteen years.

This evening, while she was drinking her wine, my estranged wife took exception to the fact that I wanted to talk about how tense she’s been. She said she didn’t want to talk about it.

I left the room (so as to comply with her request).

I went upstairs to use our tiny guest bathroom. She began to yell and throw things around the kitchen, then eventually charged up the stairs and into the bathroom, just as I was finishing and getting ready to leave. She confronted me there, holding her half-full wine glass in her hand. Her voice got louder, her gestures wilder. 

She complained that I had upset her by wanting to talk when she had told me she didn’t want to talk. As I began to feel uncomfortable, I said, “You’re saying it’s my fault you can’t express your emotions responsibly like an adult?”

She said, “Yes!! It’s because you want to go off and take a vacation with your girlfriend!” Then she threw the contents of her glass in my face and smashed it against my bare chest.

The results are pictured here.

I stood there, with shattered glass at my feet, glass shards sticking in my skin, bleeding, for five minutes or so. I asked her to move so that I could leave. She waved the broken stem of the glass in the air and said, “Leave!! Who’s stopping you?”

I told her she was standing between me and the door. I felt threatened. 

She laughed and said, “You’re 6 foot 3 and 250 pounds! You can’t feel threatened by me!”

I said, “You just broke a glass on my chest and cut me. You’re standing there with the stem in your hands. Yes. I feel threatened.”

She said, “No, you don’t.”

I asked her to move out of the way and let me pass. I didn’t want her to think I was pushing her or threatening her.

She held her ground, waved the broken stem and shouted, “Go on! Leave! I’m not stopping you!”

After I asked her repeatedly, she finally moved a bit and I left, carefully stepping over the broken glass.

I have posted this here as evidence, and to help those who may think that size and gender make a difference when abuse is concerned. People who, like my estranged, think some have permission to feel threatened and some don’t.

Abusers come in all sizes and genders.

She and I went to a half dozen therapists over the years. At each initial session, every therapist took a look at me, then at her (5’4” 150 lbs.). Then he or she would gravely ask my wife, “Do you feel safe?”

None ever thought to ask me.

Thanks for listening.

he should’ve beat her fucking ass oh my GOD I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY NOW

This is important!

SIGNAL BOOST

Wait, whoever said he should beat her, that’s not going to solve anything…! One should stand up to abuse, but to become the abuser themself, isn’t the right thing…

I wouldn’t know what to do, other than fight back myself, but it’s a hypothetical for me.

Good luck to the man, kudos for him staying there for his kid.

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