Showing posts with label Gun culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gun culture. Show all posts
Sunday, May 14, 2023

You gotta be kidding me!

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Apparently they have the solution in Texas to kids dying in classroom shootings: Train third graders to administer first aid to gunshot wou...
Monday, April 24, 2023

A few links of interest

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Read a few interesting things yesterday. On the link between UTIs and meat (esp. poultry): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Another reason to restrict hand guns

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I haven’t even mentioned the biggest example of how our inability to understand suicide costs lives: roughly 40,000 Americans commit suicide...
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Friday, March 01, 2019

But is it right?

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Believe in educators carrying weapons in school? Read this and weep. The videos, instruction, and repetition play a trick on my mind, thou...
Monday, May 02, 2016

In which Preston Sprinkle nails it

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Just ran across a great post by Preston Sprinkle on a theoretical discussion about the old "killer at the door" scenario. Here...
Monday, March 28, 2016

In the end, dialogue and respect

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While we take some of the steps above and are convinced we are 
following God’s call, we must never demonize our Christian brothers and sist...
Friday, March 25, 2016

These things ought not to be!

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In 2010, my state and others passed laws that permit gun owners to take their weapons into bars and other places that serve alcohol provided...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Cop-out!

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The most pathetic words I ever hear are from people who listen to the innumerable ways the Gun Empire deceives us and perpetuates murder and...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Turning power on its head

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Can we get our sophisticated twenty-first-century minds around that image of the triumphant Lamb of God, who “was led to the slaughter and d...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Overreach

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To enhance its image the Gun Empire boasts of pure American values, yet preaches insurrection and plots the overthrow of a democratically el...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Violence is the answer!

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When violence and guns are destroying the character and moral fiber of our nation, it is of infinite importance that the faith community wak...
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I'd say it is an epidemic

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Every American today lives on the slippery slope of gun violence and each of us is endangered because public safety is not a national priori...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Making the world safe...

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Enough people believe more guns will resolve human conflicts to make this country the most dangerous in the developed world. With 300 millio...
Monday, March 14, 2016

It's a slippery slope, but not the direction you think...

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Those who live in the mountains are most aware that every mountaintop has more than one slope. The purpose of this book is to alert people o...

More gun violence—but it won't change anything

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In the six years and nine months since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, through December 2009, 4,400 American servicemen and women l...
Friday, March 11, 2016

And when money talks, death results

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For decades church folk pleaded with elected leaders to enact balanced legislation, but they turned a deaf ear. They listened only to those ...

Money talks

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The United States Congress is presently in sync with a small, extreme minority of gun owners, who along with manufacturers, distributors, an...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Which will it be?

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I concede that stories of stopping a crime are more compelling. They are like an account of our Navy SEALs killing Osama bin Laden. People h...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Same old same old

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At a mass shooting, the only germane question is how. How were thirty-two people killed and fifty-seven injured in just a few minutes? How w...
Tuesday, March 08, 2016

The (not so) Wild West

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Who cares if the gun fighter in the Old West was a figment of the imagination? Who cares if the infamous Wild West was actually the birthpla...