More U.S. Voters Own Guns Than Ever Before, Finds Poll
Gun ownership has reached a record high among American voters, according to an NBC poll published Tuesday. More than half of respondents (52%) reported that they or someone in their…
Gun Violence In USA
Mass Killings In The U.S. – A New Record For The Deadliest 6 Months
Slain at the hands of strangers or gunned down by loved ones. Massacred in small towns, in big cities, inside their own homes or outside in broad daylight. This year's…
The Idolatry of Gun Worship
In the aftermath of the horrific Nashville school shooting that took the lives of three adults and three little children, Tony Perkins president of the Family Research Council, refused to…
Stop Killing Us, Guns in America
For seven years now former Marine and anti-gun violence activist Jamal Johnson has undertaken a three week 140-mile walk from Philadelphia to Washington, DC to participate in the annual Stop…
Oldest Interfaith Organization in America Calls for Children to Have More Rights Than Guns
March 27, 2023 – The Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, established in 1915, is horrified at the senseless loss of seven lives –…
Gun Violence Memorial Closes as Gun Violence Continues
WASHINGTON (03-04) – Today marked the closing ceremony at the National Building Museum where the shocking and profoundly sad Gun Violence National Memorial Project has been on display since April…
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Memorial
NOVATO, CA (12-14) – On the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, activist groups around the country honored the memory of the 20 first graders ages six…
Ending Urban Gun Violence in America
A profoundly inspiring and positive news conference was held today at the National Press Club addressing the ever-increasing street gang gun violence problem in America. No community in the country…
Average Number Of Gunfire In U.S. Schools Nearly Quadrupled During Last School Year, Says Report
No school year in the U.S. in nearly a decade saw as much gunfire as the 2021-2022 academic calendar, a report released Friday shows. The report (https://everytownsupportfund.org/press/new-everytown-report-finds-average-number-of-gunfire-on-school-grounds-incidents-nearly-quadrupled-during-last-school-year/?_gl=1*ifxwvo*_ga*ODUyMTMyNDc4LjE2NjA3NjgzMTU.*_ga_LT0FWV3EK3*MTY2MDkyMjczMC40LjEuMTY2MDkyMjc5My4wLjAuMA) was published by Everytown…
Biden “Celebrates” New Gun Laws, Activists Lament
Today being 7-11, one would have thought it would be a lucky day. But America being America, ever fascinated with guns and gun culture, it’s just another day of violence…
Hardening Schools and Arming Teachers Is the Wrong Approach
American schools are soft, you say? I know what you mean. I taught college for 15 years, so I’ve dealt with my share of still-teenagers fresh out of high school.…
Can the United States Curb the Epidemic of Gun Violence?
An epidemic is hitting the US and ordinary citizens are unable to stop it. The reason is simple: the laws protect the killers. And those responsible for making the laws…
Texas School Shooting- If Gunman was a Black, a Muslim, an Arab…?
Irrespective of whatever is ethnic identity of any shooter leading to violence and/or murders, how can approach towards him be decided by his religion, race, colour or any ethnic as…
Weapons of Faith: The Arming of American Schools
The United States remains a country of tenacious faith. The nature of that faith stretches from the digital pulpits of Silicon Valley, where cool technology occupies the seat of majesty,…
A Country Armed to the Teeth
The gun I carried on the streets of New York City in the late 1960s was a Beretta, similar to the pistol James Bond packed in the early Ian Fleming…
Gun Violence: What Can Be Said After So Much Grief?
What more can be said with so much grief, after the spate of recent gun violence around the country? Can anything be added that has not already been said. The…
America Needs a Jubilee
The horrifying mass murder of 18 school children and two teachers in Uvalde, TX occurred at the same time as the funeral of Celestine Chaney, grandmother of six and Buffalo,…
Shame
The burden of absence savages the heart. How to give voice to the horrors of grief? In the valley of tears rivers from Eden run red with the salt of…
America and Guns, the Unresolved Deadly Debate
This Memorial Day, as the nation reflects on, mourns and honors the sacrifices of U.S. military personnel who have died in the line of duty, another senseless killing of innocent…
Gun Rights – Gun Wrongs
I have been numb and silent. Not like me. But I guess I am also human and sometimes the pain is too much. 19 children dead? Should I be thankful…
‘That’s not the devil. That’s America.’, a Washington Post headline
The Washington Post (WashPost) made a front-page headline after the Buffalo’s East Side mass shooting. The headline – “‘That’s not the devil. – That’s America.’” tells state of the one…
The Economy of Tolerable Massacres: The Uvalde Shootings
Societies generate their own economies of tolerable cruelties and injustices. Poverty, for instance, will be allowed, as long a sufficient number of individuals are profiting. To an extent, crime and…
Weep not just for Uvalde but for the hatred that consumes America and the world
America continues to unleash unparalleled madness in the world. It’s the madness spawned by an all-consuming hatred against: Children, Women, Men, Black-Brown-White folks, Russians and Communists, Palestinians and Houthi, Nature,…
The Rittenhouse Verdict
Fanon had written that the colonized belonged to a higher cognitive category than the colonizer for a simple reason: The colonized have to be able to think of themselves and…
Record Weekend Violence in USA Again Exposes High Risks of Gun Culture
The weekend of 4 July was supposed to be a celebratory time in the USA as celebrations of freedom day were being held all over the country and fireworks celebrations…
Mass shootings, racism, video games, Fox News, CNN, Washington DC and Americans’ opinions
A new poll has found a majority of Americans is blaming mass shootings in the U.S. on easy access to guns and racism, but a significant portion also put networks…
Slaughter Central
By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date. The reason’s simple enough. No matter what mayhem I describe, with so much all-American weaponry in…
Kill a Jew, Kill a Nigger, Kill a Chink!!
Cold blooded murder, as they call it, sucks! When it is pre-meditated it is even worse. In Nazi Germany, once Hitler and his gang were in power, ' No holds…
Street violence in Portland as armed far-right returns “prepared to fight”
Over the last three months in Portland, mass protests against police violence and racism gradually gave way to nightly often violent standoffs between a core of pro-Black Lives Matter (BLM)…
Entitlement of the Gun
I write these words in an agony of urgency. Already this year, 2019, there have been 31 mass shootings in the USA; more than in any other nation. Over half…
Howie Hawkins: ‘The US Culture Of Violence Is Reaping What It Has Sown’
The US is in the midst of an epidemic of mass killings. In the 215 days so far this year, the US has seen 252 mass shootings – an average…
El Paso shooting: Hundreds of mothers and students demanding gun control march on White House and the Capitol
Hundreds of mothers, students and other volunteers demanding action on gun control marched on the White House and the Capitol on the heels of the deadly shooting in El Paso,…
School Shooters and Drones: Linking Gun Violence at Home to America’s Wars Abroad
In the wake of the February 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 students and staff members, a teacher said the school looked…
American Gun
Another mass shooting in America! They are so frequent they are anticipated. I favor stick gun control, and the application of the Second Amendment of the Constitution should be challenged…
Afghanistan war veteran kills 12 at a southern California dance club
Another horrible mass shooting took place in the US on Wednesday night, the 307th such episode on the 311th day of the year, according to a website that tracks gun…
Salvaging Broken People
We just had another mass murder in the USA. A military connected person carried it out. I know two Marines. Both have shell shock permanent brain damage AND PTSD. One…
Guns Trump Everything, Including Journalism
It’s Friday. There have been 28,420 incidents of gun violence so far this year in the US. 1,135 of those have happened since last week. Yesterday saw the 154th mass…
Mass Shootings In The U.S. – An Historical Perspective
A week ago on May 18, 10 students were killed and 13 wounded at Santa Fe High school just south of Houston, within its metropolitan area. The shooter was a…
The Angle From Which I Chose to Teach Eight-Year-Old Children About Guns
The mother of one of the dozen third graders I was teaching last year in a home school setting crossed paths with me the other day. She reminded me of…
13 Killed, 19 Years Later
The quaint, unassuming, elevated area south of Denver known as Columbine rarely, if ever, caught the attention of the average American residing outside the State of Colorado for just over…
YouTube, Censorship And Nasim Aghdam
“People like me are not good for big business, like for animal business, medicine business and for many other businesses. That’s why they are discriminating and censoring us.” Nasim Najafi…
Arms of America: From Yemen to Florida
Co-Written by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox The United States government views human rights not as the foundation of human dignity but as an impediment to corporate profits. —…
Stephon Clark & Alton Sterling & Saheed Vassell: Police Murder, System Cover Ups & What Must Be Done Now!
March 18: Stephon Clark—gunned down by two Sacramento, California cops who shot him eight times in his grandmother’s backyard; six times in the back, once in the side and…
Psych Drugs And Guns Don’t Mix
“Violence and other potentially criminal behaviors caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret.” -- David Healy, UK psychiatrist and author (and co-founder of www.RxISK.org) “The establishment…
Millions of Students Demand “Never Again” to Gun Violence
Sonoma County, Northern California: Over a million students and allies walked out of classes in the U.S., from Maine to Hawaii, and elsewhere in the world on March 14. Ten…
Gleaning The Meaning
In the first 11 weeks of 2018, there have been 12 school shootings. Although shootings on school campuses only make up a tiny fraction of gun injuries and deaths annually,…
Blessed Be The Peacemakers: “They Can’t Kill Us All.”
Yesterday, in solidarity with the 17 students killed in Parkland, FL., students all across the country left their classes for 17 minutes. These students echoed the moral determination of their…
Thousands of Students Protest Gun Violence
Sonoma County, California: Driving through small-town Sebastopol on March 14 toward the Senior Center, this 73-year-old noticed groups of young students with signs gathering on downtown street corners and…
Protecting Students’ Rights
A superintendent threatens to suspend students protesting gun laws. But that’s not legal. Curtis Rhodes, the superintendent of the school district in Needville, a small town southwest of Houston, wrote…
Mothers Moving Menacingly….
It doesn't do much good to point out that mothers are going to keep crying their souls out -- losing their lovely children -- unless those mothers themselves are willing…
An Epidemic of U.S Mass Shooting When There Can Be an Answer
That there is a change in the air is evident this time. Since the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, there have been demonstrations by school kids,…
Arming Educators: Trump, Gun Violence And Schools
It had been in the works. Instead of engaging in the traditional revulsion associated with a mass shooting, or even digesting the grief of outraged students and grieving parents, US…
World Sees Florida’s 17 as a Tiny Backfire! Invading Armed Americans Kill Millions of Kids
American college kids only asking for stricter gun laws, should instead ask Iraqis, Libyans, Afghanistani, Somali, and Yemeni what to do about Americans killing Americans, and they will answer, stop…
The School Shooting in Parkland, Florida: Why Do These Atrocities Keep Happening?
On February 14, 2018, it happened again. Young people, full of potential, their futures before them, shot down... at school, supposedly a place for learning, growing, having fun, making…
On Jettisoning Failed Leaders And Mass Shootings In The US
The scene is the House of Commons; the date May 7, 1940. A simple motion to adjourn for the ten-day Whitsun recess is of little concern to Prime Minister Neville…
Providing Protection
My daughter is a guidance counselor, a position like being a school psychologist. She, all by herself, handles a school with 350 children in her role. It is a lot…
The Bucket of Blood Beyond Parkland
"Sixty-eight percent of U.S. citizens believe that 'better mental health screening' would help to reduce the number of school shootings, but one has to ask what's considered mentally healthy in…
Seventeen Killed in Mass Shooting at Florida High School
Seventeen people were killed and at least 14 more wounded Wednesday afternoon in the latest horrific school shooting in the United States. The tragedy unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High…
If A Guy Named Mohammad Blew Up The Texas Church?
'If a guy named Mohammad blew up that church yesterday. O my God, O my God, Washington would be on fire," says MSNBC Moring Joe Host. Joe Scarboroug was…
The Psychology Of Mass Killers: What Causes It? How Can You Prevent It?
In Las Vegas on 1 October 2017, it appears that one man (although it might have been more) killed 59 people and shot and injured another 241 (with almost…
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