As I stated in yesterday’s post, after a mass shooting, there are always people who say that guns aren’t the problem, mental illness is the problem. This bothers me because it is just a smokescreen used to prevent any real discussion of the real issues. But it also bothers me for deeper reasons. Very generally,…
In the news surrounding Freddie Gray’s murder and the ensuing outcry in Baltimore, one thing has shocked me. It’s really sad that only one thing has shocked me. It ought to shock me that the police would arrest someone without cause and then kill that person while transporting him to jail. It ought to shock…
On October 24th, 2014, there were at least two shootings in America. One involved high school students in Washington and the other involved police officers in California. Shootings like these have become so common that they don’t even steal the headlines in the news cycle. These two incidents were right alongside stories about the Ebola…
