Guns - Texas Outlaw Writers

One Nation, Under Gun

To treat Charlie Kirk's fate as inexplicable is to misunderstand the soil from which violence grows in America. In most states, it’s easier to buy an AR-15 than it is to register to vote. We act shocked when those weapons are turned on politicians, activists, or everyday citizens.

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Cemetery America

"We avert our eyes from the cause and nod sadly at the effect, but take no steps to prescribe a solution. The culture of the gun in the U.S. has lost no battles in the modern era. Our politics keep fertilizing the bloody fields with fewer and fewer controls."

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OK, Yes! I shot my foot! Now shuttup!

I'm not Wild Bill, obviously. Unless there are legends he kept secret.

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So… What About the Children? Are We Following the Trail that Gun Violence Leaves Behind?

My father had a deer rifle and a pistol, but we never knew where they were kept. There was an unspoken sense that if someone broke into the house, he’d likely shoot them, but gun violence in a broader context was not really on our minds.

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Using the Second Amendment to Battle the First Amendment

Another example of the thousand cuts extremist Republicans employ to sabotage democracy.

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(More) Random Thoughts About Gun Love

There is a way to prevent this and we know what it is. And if anyone cared to read the Constitution beyond the 2nd Amendment, they'd see that we have gotten it all wrong for years.

Texas History

What Really Happened at Waco

"Everybody was panicked, I can tell you that. Especially those guys who had been hit. They were screaming. I think one or two of them got hit in the gut just below their armor... No one other than the ATF and the Davidians knew what started all the shooting."

Texas Politics

A Letter from Texas

"Fascism in Texas is no longer creeping. It is up and running with Olympian legs."

Texas Politics

Can Greg Abbott Get Past November 8th?

"Every morning this summer, Greg and Cecilia Abbott arise early and give thanks to God for the blessing of a new day. Then they... pray to whatever dark spirits that the electricity grid will hold for justonemorefuckingdaypleaseGod..."

Texas Politics

Governor Death

Nothing reaches his dark heart. How many Texans who need help and won’t be able to get it because of Abbott’s policies, and then will end up hurting themselves or others?

Texas Politics

The Race to Ruin

The rest of America ought to view Texas as a conservative crystal ball and get an honest read of the potential future under unrestrained Republican leadership.

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Can a Photo Stop a Bullet?

"Let the people see what they did to my boy." -Mamie Till Mobley (mother of the lynched Emmett Till)

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To See, Or Not To See

The government controls what we see, and we have let them, which is foolish in the extreme. Because we are now met in a battle on our own soil, except it is not a war, it’s the slaughter of our children.

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Baseball, Apple Pie, and Violence Baked into America’s Legacy

If you start a country by killing, stealing, and victimizing people, it’s not surprising that your cultural DNA is made up of killing, stealing, and victimizing people.