Gun Control Archive

#Marchforourlives has taken over national headlines, as well it should. This student driven movement, that not only addresses one of the largest public health issues of our time, but also does so in such an inclusive fashion that civil rights …

I never had active shooter drills in schools. We had one nuclear bomb once that seemed silly, as hallways and desks were known even then for being a poor substitute to any actual threat. Now children go through so many …

Unattended guns can harm your children. Guns may cause injury or death. Guns may increase the case-fatality rate of firearm suicide attempts. Imagine these phrases plastered on the box of recently purchased gun. We see analogous sentences, “smoking seriously harms …

I was in London when the Newtown massacre occurred. As a father of four and like so many others, the event devastated me and left me searching for answers. Realizing my American status, some Brits would ask me how Americans …

Numbers. It’s what we seek. It’s the basis behind a lot of what is asked when someone states a “fact.” It’s data. It’s statistics. It’s also a count of HUMAN LIVES. In 336 days, there have been 355 mass shootings …

Redundant to say the least, reading headline after headline of schools, churches and other public places being overtaken by yet another mass shooting is becoming too commonplace in the United States today. Most recently, there was a shooting in downtown …

In what is becoming all too familiar, another gun was fired in an American school. This time it was an AK47 in Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Gerogia.  According to USA Today, the suspect is a white male in …