Reading Time: 5 minutes The news has sent waves across America: A former pupil returned to their Nashville elementary school to gun down three children and three adults. What happened was horrific. As we discuss the terrible ordeal, no discussion should take away from this reality. What the shooter did was disgusting, and when we seek understanding of what […]
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Shinzo Abe’s assassination doesn’t disprove Japan’s success with gun control
Reading Time: 3 minutes On July 8th, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a gunman while giving a political speech in the city of Nara. Abe had become a towering figure not only in Japanese politics but in international affairs. He held the title of Prime Minister longer than anyone else in Japan’s post-war history, and […]
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Mass killings: Why we need to see the murdered innocents
Reading Time: 7 minutes For several decades beginning in the 1950s, driver education classes in the United States included screenings of “shock films”—documentary shorts, narrated in police drama style, created to bring the reality of high-speed collisions home to young drivers. Names like Highway of Agony, Mechanized Death, and Red Asphalt were meant to terrify teenagers into driving safely. […]
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Republicans want to arm teachers. Here’s how terrible the idea is
Reading Time: 5 minutes After the tragic mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, Republicans are once again offering dubious legislative proposals along with impotent thoughts and prayers. The new/old proposal offered by Republicans in the wake of these shootings, in which dozens of Americans were killed, is an extension of the “good guy with a gun” […]
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America is a culture of death
Reading Time: 6 minutes Americans die in huge numbers because of a minority’s cultlike obsession with guns, and because our broken political system makes reform almost impossible.
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The wisdom of Karl Marx applied to school shootings
Reading Time: 3 minutes Karl Marx gives us an insight that reveals a new response to school shootings.
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Señorita pistols and the amendment after the First
Reading Time: 3 minutes This piece does not intend to minimize the horror of gun violence in the U.S. Indeed, the purpose here is to lampoon the ineffectiveness of our gun policies and the notion that more guns is what we need. Consider this A Modest Proposal. The text of an upcoming speech by Senator Burlo Winchester—an advocate of […]
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How do we explain gun violence to our kids?
Reading Time: 3 minutes How do we strike a balance between honesty and shielding when we discuss Sunday’s mass shooting in Buffalo?