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It’s Groundhog Day in gun-crazy USA. Another school shooting. Another teenage boy with a military-style rifle. And another round of “thoughts and prayers” from politicians who could actually do something about this madness but won’t. This time, it’s a 14-year-old in Georgia, whose resume now includes the murder of four innocent people at Apalachee High… Read more.
Rep. Bowman confronts Rep. Massie over gun violence Washington is buzzing over how Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) confronted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in Congress over gun control. Here is how The Washington Post is reporting on it today: Standing in the hallway, Bowman accused Republicans of being ‘cowards’ and said voters should force them ‘to… Read more.
Truth be told, the first thought that came to mind when I read the news about the assassination of Shinzo Abe was that it must be fake; or that it must have happened somewhere here in America. Because gun violence in Japan is so rare, it never even crossed my mind that this could have… Read more.
Eager to convince and assured of its purpose, the advocacy documentary Under the Gun tackles America’s persistent gun violence crisis with – word choice intended – an arsenal of information about why even modest fixes have been slow in coming… There’s a villain, of course: the National Rifle Association post-1977, when it shifted from being… Read more.
The aftermath of school shootings is now all too familiar. The shock of the breaking news, the scenes of school evacuations, the ensuing political debate and the inevitable inaction. (Huffington Post, June 16, 2014) It has become customary to say that America has a gun-violence problem. But what America really has is a gun problem… Read more.
