This is a crude little diagram that I made back in 2013. And nothing has changed. I still feel the same way. There are a lot of different reasons for shootings and gun deaths. But there’s one common denominator — guns. Any effort not focused on the sale, distribution, and/or ownership of guns is ignoring … Continue reading It’s still the guns
Monday there was a shooting on the University of North Carolina campus. Associate professor Zijie Yan was killed. The shooter, a graduate student at UNC, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Mainstream media, as usual, covered the story with ample video images. The next day, students at the campus newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, took … Continue reading Wrenching
Did you know June 2 was National Gun Violence Awareness Day? Continue reading Horror and headlines
Jon Stewart takes on Okla. gun advocate Continue reading Stewart v. Guns
It’s certainly been a week of thought-provoking, gut-twisting, all-around bad news. And it’s only Wednesday. But these days could describe most weeks. Of course, we can blame it on the media and their determination to lead with the most catastrophic stuff they can find. But do we, society, have to keep providing such fodder? Apparently … Continue reading Only Wednesday
In May 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by four white police officers in Minneapolis, MN. The ensuing weeks were filled with demonstrations and protests across the nation. It was in that environment that the Denver Board of Education, in June 2020, voted to end the existing program of SROs — school resource … Continue reading From gossip to guns
