Independent U.S. Senate candidate Gordon Howie gleefully presents his new campaign bumper sticker: God, guns, and Gordon—ah, yes, a perfect triumvirate of things that are mostly useless when it comes to solving practical policy problems. But that's o.k.: you don't…
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Gordon Howie tags his post on our video conversation about the Second Amendment with a graphic reading, "Criminals prefer unarmed victims, and dictators prefer unarmed citizens." Australia isn't a dictatorship, is it? Just as the Newtown shooting triggered new gun…
I should be wary of any conversation that starts with my interlocutor's promise not to shoot me. But Gordon Howie stuck to his promise: cameraman Ed Randazzo aimed nothing but the cameras at me during this conversation about guns and…
Last year South Dakota adopted an unpopular, unnecessary, and potentially costly law allowing schools to arm teachers, volunteers, and other school-grounds gunslingers. A full school year has passed, and still, not one South Dakota school has felt the need to…
Gun sales have boomed over the past few years due to right-wing paranoia and the failure of fearful people to recognize that guns produce less practical, daily return on investment and produce more risk than groceries, clothing, appliances, power tools,…
No good comes from this story: nine-year-old Freeman boy kills seven-year-old brother with handgun. Hutchinson County State's Attorney Glenn Roth says the older boy told investigators he and his brother were playing with a handgun Tuesday when he pulled the…
Gooney McBuckshot continues to dominate debate in the South Dakota Legislature. Our legislators again worked themselves into a lather yesterday over the simple question of whether they ought to allow themselves and other gun-fetishists the pleasure of carrying their pistols…
Rep. Betty Olson (R-28A/Prairie City) exposed her own ignorance and irresponsibility when it comes to her pet gun proposals and her own gun-carrying habits. Rep. Olson testified before House State Affairs this morning in support of her House Bill 1117,…