gun control
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9-Year-Old Boy Shot and Killed 14-Year-Old Sister Over Video Game, Police Say
A teenage girl was shot and killed by her younger brother over what police believe to have been an argument over video games. According to the Clarion Ledger, 14-year-old Dijonae White, a student at Tupelo Middle School in Mississippi, was identified as the victim. Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said that Dijonae would not give her brother…
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Report: White Men Stockpile Guns Because They’re Afraid of Black People
In a clear case of reverse racism, an obscure, little-known discipline called “science” has revealed that the vast majority of gun owners are uneducated white males who think black people are preparing to launch a sneak attack against the Caucasians any day now. A new article in Scientific American by Jeremy Adam Smith (yes, “American”…
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We Can Now Add Schoolchildren to the List of People Forced to Clean Up the Mess White Men Made
The biggest surprise of being a parent so far is how often my daughter surprises me. She’s a little over 2 years old now, and it seems like every week she does or says something new that I had no idea she knew how to do or say. Yesterday morning, for instance, she noticed me…
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Let’s Not Forget What Happens When Students Walk Out to Save Black Lives
As I am writing this, thousands of school-age children are walking out of classrooms all across the country to protest U.S. politicians’ unwillingness to enact commonsense gun control. The nationwide demonstration is being hailed as a groundbreaking act of civil disobedience that seeks to protect the lives of America’s most vulnerable citizens. There is no…
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California High School Teacher Fires Gun in Classroom During Safety Lesson, Injures 3 Students and … Must I Really Go On?
Today in “This is exactly why schools should be gun-free zones” news, a Seaside, Calif., teacher—who is also a reserve police officer, mind you—somehow accidentally fired a gun inside a local high school classroom on Tuesday, injuring three students. What makes this even more depressing? The incident occurred during a course about gun safety. According…
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What Kind of Impact Do School Shootings Have on Kids? Well, Ask This Alabama 6th-Grader Who Just Wrote a Will
No student at any age should go to school wondering if they’ll even walk back out. No child should already have a “will” prepared just in case they never return home from school. Unfortunately, in this country, it seems that we don’t care, as lawmakers refuse to put effective gun control measures into place, while…
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How My Play Cousin Stopped a Mass Shooting and Disproved the Myth About Good Guys With Guns
I used to believe that one of the stupidest narratives in existence was the National Rifle Association’s assertion that “the only person who can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” I also believed that turning mass shooters into celebrities creates more mass shooters. But I no longer…
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Experiment Proves That Conservatives Are Little Baby Snowflakes Who Act the Way They Do Because Everything Terrifies Them
The most obvious answer when attempting to find the root cause for certain Americans being so obsessed with guns is fear. These people are scared of something—irrelevance, anarchy, immigrants, black people, aliens, Black Panther Build-a-Bears—and this fear drives them to amass arsenals and fight against even the idea of any sort of restriction. They attempt…
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Why Armed Teachers Means Dead Black Students, Explained
I’m sorry. I was keeping an eye on Florida’s House of Representatives all day. House members passed a school-safety/gun control bill and sent it to the governor for his signature. I hear you, but this bill will probably mean more dead black kids. This is Florida, man. You can buy a boa constrictor at a…
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Florida Students Blast Teacher, Hailed as Hero, as a ‘Coward’ Who Left Them to Die During Shooting
Two students who survived the horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., are now saying that one teacher who has been hailed as a hero for saving students during the rampage was actually a coward who left them to die by locking them out of a classroom. As USA Today notes,…