Rethinking the Second Amendment Can We Indeed Have Peace and Freedom Without Guns? I wrote this essay some weeks ago, but I kept waiting to publish it til tragic mass shootings were no longer in the news. But that day looks as if it will never come, so I am publishing it anyway, with grief […]
“Enough” Biden Calls On Congress To Act On Guns
Joe Biden called on Congress to act after recent mass shootings And in an impassioned plea to the nation, he renewed pressure to ban assault weapons. “My fellow Americans — enough. It’s time for each of us to do our part. It’s time to act. For the children we have lost, for the children […]
Hate Gun Violence, Live in CT? Calls to Action from CT Against Gun Violence to Pass “Red Flag” Gun Laws in Your State
Many communities are struggling with how to find a way to balance the Second Amendment rights claimed by gun owners, with the kinds of safeguards that many on both sides of the issue call “common sense gun control.” Though we rarely hear about policies that are not at the extremes this very sensitive debate in America, […]