While we seem to finally be gaining ground on the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one public health crisis to which we appear powerless. That is the epidemic of gun violence. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 305 mass shootings as of this writing. 3,044 students did not have the opportunity to graduate high…
Sometimes Republicans say such ridiculous things that you wonder if they are kidding or not. Usually, though, they are deadly serious, and often put forth proposed solutions to our problems that are nothing short of preposterous. The latest of these is conservative commentator and MSNBC host Hugh Hewitt‘s suggestion on Monday that the Santa Fe,…
What if children stopped going to school until gun laws were changed to keep schools safe? That is the radical idea being proposed by former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who wrote on Twitter: “This is brilliant, and tragically necessary. What if no children went to school until gun laws changed to keep them safe?  My family…
Who knew that the entitled Trump son-in-law (and future felon) Jared Kushner has a brother who is a good guy?  I sure didn’t, and I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t read it in an article in Axios.  Just this morning Axios reported that Josh Kushner — brother of Jared — has quietly donated…
That this this school shooting went by without any substantive cries to address our nation’s gun culture and safety laws, especially regarding domestic abusers, is another indictment against this impervious predicament.
