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Santa Barbara’s Advocacy Work in the Schools on Bullying
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has developed the No Place For Hate Initiative to organize schools to work together on developing projects that enhance the appreciation of diversity, and foster harmony between diverse groups. These programs are empowering many of the schools within the United States, promoting respect for individual and group difference, and challenging prejudice, [...]
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 [...]
Guns in Mexico: Hard to Buy, Easy to Smuggle
Unlike the United States, Mexico has strict legal restrictions on gun ownership, with most legitimate sales processed through one tiny store on a military base on the periphery of Mexico City. However, Mexico is awash in guns, thanks mainly to the criminal cartels and lax US gun laws. What has become increasingly apparent is that [...]
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 [...]
Gun Control Laws Work
- The San Francisco Chronicle California’s tough gun control laws are targeted at armed criminals in general and mass-shooters in particular. But they appear to have had the unintended consequence of making California gun stores unattractive to purchasers buying weapons for the Mexican drug cartels. A Hearst Newspapers survey of guns purchased in the United [...]
Reducing Access To Lethal Means: SAVES LIVES
The following article is from the Nevada County Public Health Department and the Nevada County Suicide Prevention Task Force —May 6, 2011 Many families think that suicide could never happen in their household. But it can and it does. Already this year, 11 people have died by suicide in Nevada County. Eleven precious individuals took [...]
Guns in the Home Do Not Deter Crime
“…most children, older adults, and women are murdered at home. A gun in the home is a particularly strong risk factor for female homicide victimization.” A study, “Risks and Benefits of a Gun in the Home,” released in February 2011 in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, (published by SAGE, a publication by the Harvard [...]
