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School shootings: Looking for solutions in all the wrong places

May 21, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Guns, Public safety, Violence Leave a comment

School shootings in America have proliferated. In response, individuals and for-profit companies have developed a plethora of products aimed [pun intended] at reducing the

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Recent right-wing violence reeks of proto-Fascism

December 3, 2015 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Violence Leave a comment

During my freshman year in college, my professor for “Political Ideologies” class made a pretty bold claim: “In the next fifty years,” he intoned,

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Reasonable and effective ways to reduce gun violence

October 15, 2015 Susan Cunningham Guns, Politics Leave a comment

It is obvious now that the majority of Americans, in fact the majority of gun owners, support better screening of those who shop for

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