Ding dong, the witch is dead
“Yes, yes, you had to be a big shot, didn’t you
You had to prove it to the crowd
You had to be a big shot, didn’t you”
— lyrics from “Big Shot” by Billy Joel
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Category: guns
Thirteen years ago today: Sandy Hook
There have been more than 4,200 mass shootings in the US since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012.
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Free speech, not irresponsible speech
The more things change …
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When?
This time it was in Minneapolis. How many next times will there be?
It’s still the guns
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
Wrenching
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