Link-o-rama

By Heraclitus

Ann at Feministing has two excellent posts up today. The first deals with a new book by Joan Burbick called Gun Show Nation, and discusses "the connections between gun culture, misogyny and domestic violence." These connections include the following:

The gun lobby also lends its support to domestic abusers in more concrete ways. Burbick explains that the Lautenberg amendment to the Violence Against Women Act bans people from owning firearms if they have restraining orders against them or misdemeanor convictions for domestic assault. The NRA and other gun groups publicly oppose the law.

But Burbick notes that this is at odds with the supposed reasons their right to bear arms needs protecting. One of their standard catchphrases is that if guns are criminalized, only the criminals will have guns. Yet they fight for gun rights for domestic abusers, who are certainly criminals.

Hmm... I wonder what their reasoning could be?

The second post is a run-down of some of the more egregious chicanery surrounding the vote on the ban on abortion in South Dakota, particularly concerning the public proclamations of various doctors. The post also contains several very good links, both to previous Feministing posts and to a New Republic article.