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Sandy Hook

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Lamentation for Songbirds

  • Lindsey Trout Hughes
  • September 30, 2021
If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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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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Moving Targets

  • Allie Marini
  • March 20, 2018
Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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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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The Rumpus Saturday Essay: The Savage Mind, Pt. 3

  • David Treuer
  • April 15, 2017
To deny violence is to do it. Our surprise at Sandy Hook and Cold Springs and Columbine is a form of violence in its own right.
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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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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Rick Moody

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 16, 2015
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Rick Moody about his new book Hotels of North America, unreliable narrators, hotel porn, how titles are uncopyrightable, and Internet comment sections.
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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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