Guns and Crime in America
Maury Harris was a top economist in the U.S. When he retired, he went back to graduate school to study criminology. This is his first...
Category : Guns
Holding Parents Accountable When Their Children Kill
This very important story appeared in the Washington Post. She had seen her grandson’s red, spiral-bound notebook before that night, but now, as Catherine O’Connor...
Remember Sandy Hook.
Nine years ago, a deranged gunman blasted his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. He murdered 20 children and six educators, including...
Nancy Flanagan on the Killings at Oxford High School
Nancy Flanagan, a retired teacher in Michigan and expert blogger, asks rhetorically, “Who is to blame?” Obviously the shooter and his parents, who bought the...
Michigan: Another Tragic School Shooting
You read the news: another school shooting. This time in Michigan. Students and teachers in most schools have drills to practice defense against a shooter,...
Sandy Hook Parents Win Defamation Suit Against Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones
Sandy Hook parents won a defamation lawsuit against rightwing media figure Alex Jones. Their children were murdered on December 14, 2012, in a massacre at...
Texas Removes All Limits on Buying and Carrying a Handgun
Other nations have figured out that the best way to reduce gun violence is to impose many barriers to buying a gun: background checks, registration,...
Children and Guns: One More American Tragedy
I thought you might want to read this. It’s a sobering story. There are about 300 million guns in the U.S. This story appeared in...
Armed Protesters Are Making Protests Dangerous and Risky
This article in the New York Times magazine describes a protest at the Capitol in Virginia on January 20, 2020. It is supposed to be...
BREAKING NEWS! QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Appointed to House Education and Labor Committee
The House Republican conference just indulged in a sick joke: It assigned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the House Education and Labor Committee. Rep. Greene...