Tag: Assault

When you think about The United States Supreme Court, what comes to your mind? If your first thought is a negative one, you are not alone. Currently, only 41% of Americans approve. Supreme Court approval was generally above 50% between 2000 and 2010, with the notable exception of a 42% analysis in 2...

Should the gun-safety movement have its own Mamie Till? She showed the world the horror of the 1955 murder of her 14-year-old son, Emmett, for whistling at a white woman. The Chicago boy visiting relatives in Mississippi was tortured, shot, wrapped in barbed wire attached to a 75-pound fan, and t...

Assault weapon” and “assault rifle,” — as well as descriptors like “military-grade” — may seem at first glance to be technical terms to gun-control advocates. But to a gun-rights advocate, these are political terms used drum up fear and create restrictive la...

Why do Republicans in Congress remain recalcitrant regarding the enactment of smart, sensible gun reforms to end mass shootings? This is clearly evidenced by Republican ruthlessness in protecting the powerful gun lobby at the expense of citizens’ safety and wellbeing — the exact oppos...

We understand that doubling the length of a fish multiplies its weight at least eight times. We know that suspension cables break after a certain length because they cannot support their own weight. However, we are almost clueless about the fractal nature of the digital world and how it will chan...