There's a lady in Newark, NJ who makes jewelry out of guns from buyback programs. One could look her up and commission some custom made baubles out of one's old guns!

A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used to kill or injure in a domestic homicide, suicide, or unintentional shooting than to be used in self-defense.

but you don't mention whether she divorced her husband for running away. She divorced him for running away, right? Right?

The Queen is so well dressed you might say Wintour is coming....i'll let myself out.

Yep the law, Florida Privacy of Firearm Owners Act, was upheld in July and hasn't moved in the court since then. Florida's chapter of the AMA told doctors to ignore the law and ask patients anyway.

I am trying to unpack all the stupid in this...

It is awful especially considering how many kids are killed are injured in firearm accidents. It does specifically exclude psychiatrists, so it at least does have a mental health provision. It's shortsighted though in many ways. Not the least of them being that primary care doctors often recognize mental illness…

I have had doctors ask me about seat belt use, condom use, fire safety, guns, drinking, drugs, heavy machinery, and about everything else. Muzzling doctors is blatantly unconstitutional. This broken nation.....

I don't think that anyone is arguing that doctors can't give medical advice unless they know about a gun in the house. It's that asking about guns in the house is relevant to patient health and safety.

"...while doctors may "know medicine," they're not the best people to ask about guns or gun laws: "[A]s a group they don't have any specialized knowledge of firearms or firearm policy."

I can't believe they didn't drop the charges. I hope he not only beats the charges but also sues them into smitherines.

Johnson, who had just been reelected to the Honor Committee and serves on the Black Student Alliance executive board, had been turned away from Trinity Irish Pub around 12:45am March 18, according to a statement from the ABC [Alcoholic Beverage Control, I think]. His friend, Bryan Beaubrun, told the Daily Progress…

There is no excuse whatsoever for the ABC to have cops. None. This bunch needs to be disbanded now. Their last two misadventures on the UVA campus are just the ones that have come to light. Here in Harrisonburg they treat students at JMU with the same contempt as they did Martese Johnson and Elizabeth Daly (look up…

While Pharrell is in his sheltered bubble talking about being a New Black, our folks are over here being subjected to New Lynchings, New Jim Crow and now New Slavery.

A walk-in 40... I'm crying. I'm crying for the server. I'm crying for the host and bussers who had to put that table together. How does a group of 40 people not have a single person in it that says MAYBE THIS IS A BAD IDEA AND MAYBE THIS IS RUDE.

Because I have compassion for people who are in different places than I am when it comes to their faith. It's actually pretty easy to have affinity with people who exist in a different life path than you, once you acknowledge that they're not idiots who need unsolicited advice and hand-holding, but people in their own…

The Episcopal Church, for one. Unitarian Universalism as well, I would expect. Reform Judaism, probably Conservative Judaism, as well, although with more of an eye toward traditional Jewish law (namely, the movement is strongly in support of maintaining Roe v. Wade and access to abortion, while acknowledging that…

What on earth are you talking about? You made a dumb reductive statement about religious people, Pyrax said you were being dumb and reductive. I too am an atheist and it's clear to me too you're doing that dumb atheist thing where we assume that religious people don't question anything, that they're either mindless…

No, you said:

I'm an atheist. This is not a defensive comment because I feel attacked. This is a reminder that the faith of others is complex, multifaceted, both personal and political, and is intertwined in many different ways with a person's life. It's never as simple as "the church says birth control is a sin and I don't believe…