Tag: Guns

The Family Profiting From the Opioid Crisis Hides Behind Charity

America is facing an unprecedented public health crisis— opioid addiction and the subsequent loss of many lives. The prescription drug OxyContin has been attributed to many of these deaths. Amazingly, however, little is known about the proprietors of OxyContin— the Sackler family. Their secret? Calculated and lavish acts of philanthropy. America’s Opioid Crisis: a Public Health Issue of Epic Proportions A recent article published in the New...

Big Pharma Billionaire Arrested for Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Opioids

Billionaire and founder of Insys Therapeutics, Dr John Kapoor, has been arrested for his involvement in a diabolical scheme involving his company's top selling opioid drug— Subsys. Curiously, it all went down on the very same day the Trump administration declared America’s opioid crisis as a national public health emergency. According to CBS News, Kapoor was arrested early on Thursday morning at his home in...
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#CocksNotGlocks: Why Texas Students Carry Dildos on Campus

When a new law began permitting the concealed carry of personal firearms on campus in August 2016, University of Texas (UT) at Austin students...

Gun Safety Measures Won’t be Enough When People Can 3D Print Guns at Home

In the wake of June’s fatal mass shooting in Orlando, Florida that killed 49 people in an LGBT nightclub, Democratic lawmakers set out to...

Senator Argues Against Himself With Asinine Gun Control Comparison

With the Orlando Pulse nightclub tragedy that took the lives of 49 innocent people dominating headlines, both proponents for and against gun control heavily...

New ‘Smart’ Bullets are Able to Change Direction in Midair

It's always easier to hit a bull's-eye when your bullet can change direction in midair. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed...

Tons of Guns, But No Mass Shootings: What We Can Learn From the Swiss

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, with over 2 million firearms in circulation of its 8.2 million...

This Man Was Almost a School Shooter. Here’s What Stopped Him.

On the afternoon of Wednesday, February 14, a 19-year-old man stepped out of an Uber outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida....

California Gun Law Aims to Reduce Police Brutality. Here’s How

Stephon Clark. Michael Brown. Treyvon Martin. These are three of the many unarmed black men killed recently at the hands of police officers. How...

10 Things That Are Illegal in the US – While Semi-Automatic Weapons Aren’t

America, as we all know, is the land of the free. It’s so free, that in fact, if you want to own 40 semi-automatic assault...

10 Symbols You Missed in Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’, Explained

Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino's newest single "This Is America" is a catchy track, but what has people really talking is its music video. The...

Recent Incidents Prove Arming Teachers Was Mind-Numbingly Stupid

In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14th, 2018, teenaged students have become outspoken activists. Formally politically “neutral” companies...