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To Want “But LIttle”: Reflections From a Second Grade Classroom
Tag Archives: mass homicide
Painful Questions
How do we talk about the Boston marathon murders in a way that acknowledges the suffering and the evil, yet also places them within the broader perspective of suffering and evil that the human race has experienced, and is currently … Continue reading
Posted in Public Policy
Tagged anti-americanism, aurroa, bombings, Boston Marathon, civil liberties, death penalty, james holmes, jared toughener, mass homicide, newtown, terrorism, tucson
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How to Survive an Attack
There’s something grimly understated about this article from the NYT on how to survive a mass homicide attack. Apparently, we now have a large enough sample size from these shootings to talk intelligently about predictors of survival: Research on mass … Continue reading
Posted in Children/Teens/Young Adults, Public Policy
Tagged gun lobby, gun violence, mass homicide, new york times
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Give Me, Give Me, I want, I want (The Zen of Being a Gun Lobbyist)
From the Atlantic’s Secret History of Guns: “In the 1920s and ’30s, the NRA was at the forefront of legislative efforts to enact gun control. The organization’s president at the time was Karl T. Frederick, a Princeton- and Harvard-educated lawyer known … Continue reading
Posted in Children/Teens/Young Adults
Tagged Atlantic, children, CT school shooting, gun deaths, gun fatalities, gun lobby, gun violence, mass homicide, murder, national rifle association, neuroscience of what makes people trigger-happy, NRA, sandy hook, school shootings, school violence, second amendment, secret history of guns
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Suffer the Children
Are there any new words for the grief and fear we feel for those Connecticut school children and their families? I’m rarely at a loss for words, but I have nothing to offer those desperate parents whose lives have been … Continue reading
