Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count The Second Amendment to the Constitution is interpreted by lawmakers and judges in an absolute manner. Every American, we are constantly told– even mentally ill ones like the shooter at Santa Monica College who killed 6 persons on Friday, hunting our children as [...]

En el día del 2 de abril, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas aprobó un tratado sobre comcercio de armas por 154 votos a favor, 3 en contra (Corea del Norte, Iran y Siria), 21 abstenciones ( Angola, Arabia Saudí, Bahrein, Bielorusia, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Egipto, Fidji, India, Indonesia, Koweit, Laos, Myanmar, Nicaragua, [...]

For Washington, There Is No Arms Control Abroad Given these last weeks, who doesn’t know what an AR-15 is?  Who hasn’t seen the mind-boggling stats on the way assault rifles have flooded this country, or tabulations of accumulating Newtown-style mass killings, or noted that there are barely more gas stations nationwide than federally licensed firearms dealers, or heard the renewed debates [...]

¿Sabe usted en qué se parecen Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly y Julio Rodríguez? Los tres son periodistas, o personajes mediáticos, u opiniólogos. Esa es la más fácil de las semejanzas. Está claro también que los tres trabajan para los mainstream media, es decir, para medios propagandísticos de capitales corporativos y empresariales. Y, desde luego (¿de [...]

An ongoing source of controversy in America, gun laws are increasingly polarizing the Southern states and Washington. In Arizona, Tea Party supporting, heavily armed, vigilante groups are taking over. “The one thing we know about gun control is that it has never provided security”, argues former Arizona sheriff and local hero, Richard Mack. Despite the recent massacres, [...]

Cuando uno lee la sentencia judicial que condena al sujeto de la zona de San Carlos recientemente indultado por la presidenta Chinchilla, le quedan en claro algunos detalles contundentes. Primero, no hay ninguna evidencia de que este hombre, como tampoco su familia, haya sufrido amenaza alguna a su integridad física. Todo lo contrario: es completamente [...]

Carta al Presidente Obama Sr. Presidente de los EEUU de Norteamérica Barack Obama

Esta frase idiomática estadounidense, acuñada en 1959, se refiere a una verdad tan grande y tan obvia que no puede ser ignorada, y que sin embargo lo es.

The Second Amendment does NOT guarantee the right of any and all citizens to own any and all kinds of guns. It DEMANDS, in the name of national security, that we regulate it.

“In the end, after he has felt the full force of our justice system, what will be remembered are the good people who were impacted by this tragedy,” President Obama said this week in Aurora, Colo., after the shootings. That’s probably not true. From Charles Whitman up to the present day, the collective American memory preserves the [...]