Gun Control Archive
The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill last week that will prevent the state’s child protection agency from requiring foster parents to lock up firearms. Lawmakers say the Department... By Christie Renick This post Firearms and Foster Homes: Arizona …
David Hogg, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks at a rally calling for more gun control. Photo by Jonathan Drake / Reuters After 17 people, mostly teens, were shot and killed by another teen last week in Parkland, …
My mother was a special education public school teacher in Prince George’s county Maryland for 36 years. It required a fervent, unimaginable patience. It required a sense of humor. It required empathy. It didn’t require combat training.
I’ve been thinking a lot about guns recently. Okay, I can understand how that is a worrisome sentence to start with. And most who know me know I’m very pro-gun laws. You can read the article where I make my …
Unattended guns can harm your children. Guns may cause injury or death. Guns may increase the case-fatality rate of firearm suicide attempts. Imagine these phrases plastered on the box of recently purchased gun. We see analogous sentences, “smoking seriously harms …
STUDENT VOICES By Robert Schmaltz December 3, 2015, a BBC News headline reads “California Shooting: Just another day in the United States of America, another day of gunfire, panic, and fear.” By all measures this act of violence claiming the …
I was in London when the Newtown massacre occurred. As a father of four and like so many others, the event devastated me and left me searching for answers. Realizing my American status, some Brits would ask me how Americans …
Australia is typically seen as a rough country, filled with crocodile hunters and deadly animals at every turn. It might be assumed that this down-under country would side with pro-gun groups in the wake of the shooting. Prior to 1996 …
Numbers. It’s what we seek. It’s the basis behind a lot of what is asked when someone states a “fact.” It’s data. It’s statistics. It’s also a count of HUMAN LIVES. In 336 days, there have been 355 mass shootings …
Redundant to say the least, reading headline after headline of schools, churches and other public places being overtaken by yet another mass shooting is becoming too commonplace in the United States today. Most recently, there was a shooting in downtown …
