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Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings – Part III

March 13, 2018by lbwoodgate 7 Comments

“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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Gun Control, Gun Culture/ Gun Violence, History, Social Discourse, Wedge Issues

Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings – Part II

March 12, 2018by lbwoodgate 4 Comments

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 […]

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Gun Control, Gun Culture/ Gun Violence, Health Care Reform, Social Discourse

Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings

March 11, 2018by lbwoodgate 12 Comments

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 […]

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Gun Control, Gun Culture/ Gun Violence, Social Discourse

If all lives really mattered we would seriously deal with the conditions that foster violence.

July 9, 2016by lbwoodgate 6 Comments

Thinking All Lives Matter and saying it out loud doesn’t mean those who express this are sincere.  Most probably are but for some it’s merely a way of deflecting the […]

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Gun Culture/ Gun Violence, Society and Politics

Quit Preaching to the Choir

December 7, 2015by lbwoodgate 10 Comments

Today we recall that infamous day in 1941 that pulled us into WWII.  Roosevelt’s words assuring us that “the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself” are […]

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Gun Culture/ Gun Violence, Terrorism

America’s Gun Culture: The Freedom to Live in Fear

October 2, 2015by lbwoodgate 16 Comments

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 […]

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Gun Control, Gun Culture/ Gun Violence

Considering the Lame Argument That Asserts Cars Kill More People Than Guns

March 9, 2015by lbwoodgate 14 Comments

Someone would have to be detached from reality to compare guns to automobiles as an intentional killing tool.  One doesn’t run to the driveway to get their weapon of choice […]

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Gun Culture/ Gun Violence

Trying To Make Horse Sense Out of the Horse Manure

December 29, 2014by lbwoodgate 6 Comments

Horse sense, n.:  Stable thinking.  ~Author Unknown   Following the recent murder of two NYPD cops sitting in their patrol car, the right-wing media and their supporters went on a […]

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Gun Culture/ Gun Violence

Gun Lobby Vows Revenge

December 17, 2014by lbwoodgate 12 Comments

In a scene out of Sarah Palin’s 2010 tasteless campaign to target congress people who supported sane gun control measures, just months before Congresswoman Gabby Gifford of Arizona was nearly […]

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Gun Culture/ Gun Violence, Satire

The Kraken Has Been Released

June 16, 2014by lbwoodgate 14 Comments

The gun violence that is occurring at an ever alarming rate has followed the course of action taken by those who would allow the unlimited access to guns of nearly […]

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