Tag: Gun

On May 27, 2022, a large protest for gun control, estimated to be about 4,000 people, was held in Houston, in a park opposite the center where the NRA was holding its convention. The protest was held in the wake of the tragedy at Uvalde, just three days prior and only 300 miles away, in which 19 chi...

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Associated Press, ²CNN, ³Reuters, ???NPR Online News, ???SCOTUSblog and ???The Hill. The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on Monday vacated a lower court ruling against a Biden administration regul...

If you’ve ever been inside an elementary school building, you will realize right away that at any given moment there are dozens of kids outside at recess. After Newtown in 2014, many schools implemented locked door policies. The school where I taught was one of them. As I walked my fifth-grade...

It’s important to note that not everyone with mental health issues poses a threat to themselves or society. In the wake of the Uvalde school shooting in May 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said, “Anybody who shoots somebody else has a mental health challenge.” Mental health expert...

A little over a month has passed since the October 1st Las Vegas massacre, and already, media outlets have buried updates about the shooting on their websites and newspapers. Take a tour of the major sources (NYT, WSJ, CNN, Fox, MSNBC). You will be hard-pressed to find any news, and most importantly...

The anniversary of 9/11 is a day I spend in part remembering with the rest of the country where I was and how I reacted when I heard the news, and how for the 10 years before, that day already meant something else horrible to me. On the anniversaries of traumatic experiences, some survivors exper...

It’s been a heavy couple of weeks in the news — the Uvalde mass shooting and the fallout from the atrocious response to it, rising COVID cases, monkeypox continuing to spread, several dozen immigrants dying in an overheated truck in San Antonio, and a string of Supreme Court cases that h...

It’s a blast from the past, who doesn’t enjoy looking at vintage gun ads? It’s funny to see how they marketed firearms back in the early to mid 20th century, not to mention the prices! Here are 20 beautiful vintage gun ads from a bygone era. While some of these ads are from long...