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On Being Tough

  • Kathleen Gullion
  • January 11, 2022
The path down to the riflery range was steep and winding, littered with roots.
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Within the Scope

  • Laura Stanfill
  • February 18, 2020
While my friends write their truths in nearby cabins, I wear my silence like a bulletproof vest.
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A Friend in the Dark

  • Loren Kleinman
  • February 11, 2019
The process of guiding people to speak their truths was isolating.
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Two Extraordinary Books: Bullets into Bells and Inquisition

  • Barbara Berman
  • August 3, 2018
The obscenities and tragedies of American life pile up with speed, and in quantities, that are appalling.
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Guns or No Guns: Mental Health Crisis in Schools

  • Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
  • February 26, 2018
I do the best I can to reach out to those I see isolated or disturbed, but I have to also be careful I don’t make myself a target.
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What to Do with My Body in the Event I Die in a Mass Shooting

  • Tom McAllister
  • February 15, 2018
Don’t join them in their prayers (the god they pray to doesn’t exist).
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Boyz n the Hood, Chi-Raq, and America 2016

  • Argun Ulgen
  • July 14, 2016
And while the faces and nomenclature between these historically discrete agents of change differ, the one governing commonality remains the same: unfettered gun ownership and correlative violence play a pivotal role.
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On Refugees, and Refusing to Be Scared

  • Brian Spears
  • November 16, 2015
The news that governors are suddenly deciding that they don’t want to welcome Syrian refugees has really driven home to me just how cowardly much of this country is. We…
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The Truth is Ugly

  • Craig Reinbold
  • April 15, 2014
In light of this history that Vann has uncovered, in light of more recent tragedies, the questions remain, as then, the same: How did this happen? What might we learn from this?
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Guns in the Family

  • Sarah Malone
  • January 10, 2013
In my extended family, a generation ago, it was the odd household that didn’t have guns. I think that for my father’s father, a gun served mainly as another mechanical…
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25 Years

  • Alizah Salario
  • December 17, 2012
I was a first grader at Hubbard Wood School in 1988 when a woman entered my school and shot six kids.
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Today, Enough

  • Roxane Gay
  • December 14, 2012
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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