Scapegoating Mental Illness
Photo by Chip Vincent on Unsplash Over the weekend, a bipartisan framework for "gun safety" legislation was announced. It contains...
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Trying Not to Look Away
Photo by Maria Lysenko on Unsplash My good friend and partner, Jamil, wrote a piece for The Hartford Times called...
Tools of the Trade
Photo by Thomas Def on Unsplash Every job has its tools. My first work experience was as a paper carrier...
The School Walkout
On the morning of March 14, 2018, students all over the country participated in a school walkout to protest gun...
Mass Shootings
The other day, I ran across this headline in The Onion: "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where...
Guns and Christianity
The Bible is a very long and complex book. It is well worth the effort, though. Not only does it...
Guns and Mental Illness
As I stated in yesterday's post, after a mass shooting, there are always people who say that guns aren't the...
Guns Again, Naturally
There was another mass shooting yesterday at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. I was going to write about it yesterday,...
National Gun Violence Awareness Day
Today, June 2nd, is the first National Gun Violence Awareness Day. According to the official website, wearorange.org, The color orange symbolizes...
Knife Control
In the news surrounding Freddie Gray's murder and the ensuing outcry in Baltimore, one thing has shocked me. It's really...
