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Too Many Victims – Join Our Vigil
Sunday, January 8, 2012 @ 10am sharp (Rain or Shine) Gather @ Santa Barbara CountyCourthouse – corner Anacapa/Anapamu Host: Coalition Against Gun Violence, A Santa Barbara County Coalition The City & County of Santa Barbara are joining with communities across America as One, Sunday, January 8, 2012 to honor and remember the victims of gun [...]
Mayor Cory Booker’s urgent call
Congress is on the verge of passing a law that would deny states the right to decide who can carry hidden, loaded guns. But Newark Mayor Cory Booker is fighting back. Check out Mayor Booker’s passionate new video, then help spread the word by sharing it with your friends and family. Mayors and law enforcement [...]
The Second Amendment: NRA’s Challenges Shot Down!
Not satisfied! That is the theme of the National Rifle Association – not satisfied until every U.S. citizen is packing heat everywhere and anytime. The gun control advocates are not surprised. The Supreme Court’s rulings on Heller and McDonald, an activist’s decision which made new law, redefined the Second Amendment as an individual’s “right to [...]
Teen Tragedy
Tragic firearm stories are far too numerous in which both victim and perpetrator share misery at multiple levels – death, grief, loss and a knowing that justice, whatever that means, will never resolve the pain. There are many questions left unanswered perhaps forever in this tragic story – a story that has been investigated, analyzed, [...]
A Glimpse Into An Intriguing Book on Guns & Male Role Models
Mike Messner grew up with a typical male bonding experience – hunting with his dad and Gramps. In a personal narrative about his life and family, Mike describes how the male family rite of passage created inner conflicts within him. At age 13 Mike decided he didn’t like killing animals. In 1973 he wrote, “I [...]
Bullying is Not Just Teasing — It’s More Invasive Today
Yes, kids have always teased each other. It begins in kindergarten and continues, accelerating during the tumultuous years of middle school. Deep emotional scars often result. Today, bullying has become more invasive due to social media and a media that celebrates violence. Another difference is that stories are being heard, facts are being collected and [...]
Condolences for Norway
Numbing grief and profound sorrow; mere words cannot plumb the depths of the loss of a child. Millions of words searching for the “why” behind this heinous act matter little to the precious space that adored child occupied which is forever empty. We wish to extend our expressions of condolence to the families and the [...]
Highly Dangerous Killing Instruments
“In discussion of the atrocity in Norway, there is one subject which has been notable by the almost total silence about it: guns.” “Highly dangerous killing instruments” is a far better term than “guns” according to A C Grayling in an article from the Independent.co.uk. Grayling, currently the first master of New College of the [...]
New ad from FixGunChecks.org
Al-Qaeda spokesman Azzam al-Amriki calls on lone wolves in the U.S. to exploit gaps in our gun laws, buy assault weapons and launch a deadly new wave of mass shootings. Please watch this video, share it with your family and friends, and urge Congress to take action at http://fixgunchecks.org.
