Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings – Part III
“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. But … laws and institutions must go hand […]
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Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings – Part II
This is the second of four articles on how to address the the gun violence epidemic in the U.S. Part I can be found here Mental Health Care & Gun […]
Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings
The times we find ourselves in with mass shootings and an excess of gun violence did not take a few days, weeks or months to evolve. It has slowly gathered […]
America’s Gun Culture: The Freedom to Live in Fear
Once again we are witnesses to yet another mass shooting by an individual whose twisted mind compelled him to take innocent lives through the use of a gun. And once […]
What Do You Mean “We” Wayne?
As of this morning, 5/6/2013, there have been 3,852 gun deaths since the Newtown massacre. SOURCE In fiery rhetoric you would expect to see in a Thomas Paine pamphlet […]
What the Senate’s Failure to Pass a Sane Gun Control Bill Was Really All About
Who brought you to the dance? In her NY Times piece, Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer in Washington and a director of the NRA spent very little time and space providing sound […]
What is it About Texas Politicians Who Have No Shame?
Texas used to have a healthy mystique about it that was often the envy of other states and far away places like Lithuania. That’s been lost for future generations now […]
Gun Lore versus Contemporary Reality
In the ongoing debate about the virtues and risks to legislate some sensible federal gun control measures both sides have established certain talking points to boost their position. The middle […]
C’mon NRA. Quit Overplaying the “Rights” Card!
None of us should live in fear every time we’re out in public. Feeling that we have to pack heat to feel safe merely conceals that fear because we are […]
Gun Control: Deconstructing the “People Kill People” Argument
Perhaps one of the first defenses many gun advocates like to put out there when some form of gun control is proposed is the old seven-word saw, “Guns don’t kill […]
