There are times when words fail. The news that a nine-year-old child accidentally shot and killed 39-year-old Charles Vacca, an instructor at a shooting
Category: Guns
Gun culture: Missouri-style
Numbers tell stories. Based on statistics from 2010, 24/7 Wall St. ranked Missouri eighth for overall gun violence. Missouri had 14 gun injury deaths
Armed MO teachers will be “90% accurate.” Feel better now?
When the next school year starts, if Missouri teachers become legally sanctioned, gun-toting secret agents, they’ll be able to shoot bad guys with 90%
Gun violence: We’ve abdicated our power to stop the madness
For most of us, safety is something we take for granted. We assume that, after a day at work or leisure, the people we
Missouri wants to “protect” your kids by secretly arming their teachers
Another NRA-backed, bonehead idea has passed the Missouri legislature. On the last day of the 2014 session, the Missouri legislature passed a bill that
Georgia’s new “guns everywhere” law: A new low
As reported by Think Progress: Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) just signed a law former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ (D-AZ) organization described as “the most
Guns in the sun vs. safety in the snow
It’s been a long hard winter here in the Northeast. Extreme cold fatigue set in months ago. Roadside piles of once-pristine snow have turned
Two ways to regulate guns
There are two ways to solve the gun crisis in America that have yet to be discussed. First, there is one group above all
How a new North Carolina gun law hurts women and teens
Sarah Hunt is a 15 year old sophomore from North Carolina who is participating in Progress Women’s “Legis-Ladies” project, which is aimed at getting
Gun craziness
What in the world are we doing to ourselves? Another school shooting – this time in New Mexico. Where will the next one be? Webster Groves?