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 […]
Category Archives: Gun Culture/ Gun Violence
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 […]
If all lives really mattered we would seriously deal with the conditions that foster violence.
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 […]
Quit Preaching to the Choir
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 […]
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 […]
Considering the Lame Argument That Asserts Cars Kill More People Than Guns
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 […]
Trying To Make Horse Sense Out of the Horse Manure
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 […]
Gun Lobby Vows Revenge
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 […]
The Kraken Has Been Released
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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