We are saddened to tears over the massacre of 19 young children and two teachers in the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas last week. An additional number were wounded but survived This followed the white supremacist attack in Buffalo 10 days earlier that killed 10 innocent African Americans. More and more people are falling … [Read more…]
Back in the days when I was a teenager in high school, there were frequent interviews in magazines with Europeans expressing their reluctance to visit the United States, which they perceived as the wild west with too many guns and too many shootings. Compared to Europe, the United States was and is the wild west. … [Read more…]
From Melissa Ripepi: Hello everyone, On November 25th, the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors heard public comments on the issue of making Montgomery County a second amendment sanctuary (SAS), signaling “an intent that public funds not go to restricting 2nd amendment rights” (Roanoke Times). The vast majority of those who spoke were in favor. Those … [Read more…]
Former Texas representative and 2020 presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke visited the Virginia Tech Campus last Friday where he expressed my sentiments exactly. He railed against Congress for not doing enough to stop gun violence after yet another mass shooting. After a gunman in west Texas left at least five dead and 21 injured, O’Rourke told … [Read more…]
With the increasing numbeer of mass shootings in the country we must be more aggressive in righting the wrongs of the NRA and its supporters. I repeat below an article, with updates, I did in the spring of 2018: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment “A fraud on the American public.” That is how … [Read more…]