Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, Tucson, Aurora, Newtown: An Etiology
“Guns are not simply tools or commodities; they are instruments of social power.”
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Posts Tagged: gun violence
Today, Enough
We are crying out for change, for a mental health care system that can truly help the people who soothe their inner torment by reaching for weapons of such destruction. We are crying out for gun control laws that, at the very least, make it more difficult for such tragedies to occur.
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Guns and the American
A gun is a mechanical device used to punch holes in people and other animals in order to kill them. I list humans first since “anti-personnel” weapons, as military firearms are euphemized by governments and the gun industry, comprise the bulk of worldwide production.
...more“I’ve had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies . . .”
” . . . Once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once by my mother and twice by myself.”
All across the country, people are having conversations about the insanity of gun violence here in America.
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