At this point, it’s well documented that mass shootings cause people to buy guns. This was pointed out in an Atlantic Wire article published yesterday. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that, starting Friday morning — immediately following the tragedy in Aurora — Colorado saw increased gun-buying activity. An article published Monday in the Denver […]
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NEWS BLOG: The guns in Aurora
What would compel a 24-year-old to walk into a movie theater armed with four guns and open fire What would compel a 24-year-old to walk into a movie theater armed with four guns and open fire? The suspect in that horror this morning is a college graduate student, so presumably he knew exactly what devastation […]
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The XX Files 10.26.05
“Can I wear fake gunshot wounds for Halloween?” my 9-year-old said. At a party store, he had seen a kit that contained theatrical glue and a scrap of rubber shaped into a dark bubble of blood — where the bullet went in — surrounded by torn-up rubber skin. I suddenly felt like vomiting. Does he […]
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Urban journal 10.05.05
Do something! “Man shot dead in argument.” “Father, son arrested in fatal assault.” “Gunfire kills girl, 16.” “Boy, 2, wounded by stray bullet.” “Another child shot in city.” “Teen suffers stab wound.” Well, you’ve seen the news. Rochester’s in the midst of a full-blown epidemic of violence. And there are the usual, predictable, calls for […]
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The XX Files
I confess to feeling more than just a little freaked out by all these stories lately about violence against women. I’m not alone; a recent poll shows that the top priority of women, over abortion and equal pay, is finding a solution to domestic violence. When they’re not abducting or raping, men seem to […]
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Reader Feedback 12.4.02
Preventing the war, Cobbs Hill views, the US and violence
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Reader feedback 7.31.02
Step forward again; Guilty as charged; Westside slam; A friendly critic; Targeting Muslims
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Reader Feedback 7.17.02
Just fed up A day after reading Mary Anna Towler’s “A God-fearing People” (July 3), the following appeared on my e-mail: “No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.” At a time when we are “at war,” to quote President Bush, it is a sad commentary to find that we are being censored for using […]
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Reader feedback 7.10.02
What if? In response to Jack Bradigan Spula’s “Just a Child: Learning the Facts of Death” (June 19): What if Craig Heard was “a wonderful little, smiling little (white) person”? What if officers Serge Savitcheff, Hector Padgham, and Mike Tymoch were people of color? What if we had a police force that […]
