This past week in the ‘if they only had a brain’ category Georgia’s Republican Lt. Governor Burt Jones introduced legislation that would reward teachers who undergo firearms training to get a permit to carry guns to school with a $10,000 … Continue reading →
Toys and guns have always made for a precarious combination. For Years we’ve written about how accidental shootings commonly arise because kids find a gun and think its a toy . . . a problem made even worse since the … Continue reading →
Imagine the followings: You’re an 11-year-old boy. There’s conflict in your house and you are scared, so you call 911 for help. The police arrive, and an officer draws his gun and orders everyone out of the house. So you … Continue reading →
In yet another example of America’s relationship to guns gone wrong, On Friday a first grader at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia got into an argument with his teacher. kThats when the six-year-old pulled out a gun and shot her. … Continue reading →
Sometimes, real life truly is much stranger than fiction. This is especially the case wherever children and safety issues come together. One of these stories really happened. The other two were derived from the voices inside our head. Can you … Continue reading →
Here we are yet again: Another mass shooting, another group of kids mowed down in their classroom, another set of grieving parents suddenly forced to refer to their children in the past tense. A new batch of photographs running across … Continue reading →
In the book ‘Guns for Protection?,’ I write about the folly of Stand Your Ground laws, which allow people to go free from murder after shooting someone dead, so long as they claim to have felt threatened by the other … Continue reading →
There’s little about society that the coronavirus has left untouched. This pandemic has had consequences extending far beyond its medical toll: economic hardship, increases in inequality, and a general rise in fear and paranoia, as if America needed any more … Continue reading →
