Changing the Conversation Around Gun Violence

July 17, 2018

I’m not a “gun guy”. While I do believe individuals should have the right to bear arms, I myself don’t own any firearms and I’ve never been terribly interested in buying one. I would be hard-pressed to explain the difference between a Sig Sauer and a Glock or the difference between a 22 caliber or a 45 millimeter. I’ve shot a gun 3 or 4 times in my life, and…

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The Gun Cult-ure

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition artwork from the 1942 song by Kay Kyser for Famous Music.
October 12, 2017

Knowing that I would be writing a piece on gun control in America after recent events, I started this blog with a working title of “The Gun Culture” and my fingers slipped as I typed, a common enough occurrence.  But the typo resulted in the word “culture” being mangled, highlighting the “cult” portion of the word.  I was never intending to take a trip down the rabbit hole of the…

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