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Gun control
Adults fail on gun control; children pay the price
Students protecting students: This has become a horrifying part of the story of this countryโs gun violence.
Feedback 3/14
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Feedback 2/28
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com or post them with articles on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com. We edit selections for publication, and we don’t publish comments sent to other media. The shootings in Parkland Thursday night, I watched the CNN Town Hall about the Florida school shootings. All of the discussion was about gun control, which I support, […]
Students and parents cry, Trump wants more guns
Sensible restrictions work. They work in Australia, and they have worked here. And they don’t infringe on responsible gun owners’ rights.
The F Word: The right to keep and arm bears
The F Word. An online column for Frank De Blase to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. Who am I to argue with Ronnie Van Zant? He was […]
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Race, fear, and America’s gun problem
Behind Americans’ love of guns: a manufactured, exaggerated fear of crime and the nation’s unresolved issue of race.
Las Vegas, guns, and the evil of inaction
We knew what we needed to do when we saw the pictures of the children murdered in Newtown. And nothing happened.
The Orlando tragedy and our struggle against hate
Yes, we need to talk about gun control and ISIS-inspired terrorism. But we also have to talk about hate.
Feedback 2/3
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Have we all gone mad? Guns, anger, and us
We may not be able to get control of our gun violence unless we do something about our anger, fear, and hatred.






