From Liz Halloran at NPR, we get a story of the Rocori school district in Minnesota which is spending $25,000 on, wait for it, bulletproof white boards. “The timing was right,” Rocori school board Chairwoman Nadine Schnettler tells us. “The company is making these in response to the Newtown shooting, and has been making similar …
Tag Archive: violence
Jan 18 2013
Gun Culture, Running Roughshod
Josh Marshall speaks up for the legitimacy of the opinion of folks who hate guns: It’s customary and very understandable that people often introduce themselves in the gun debate by saying, ‘Let me be clear: I’m a gun owner.’ Well, I want to be part of this debate too. I’m not a gun owner and, …
Dec 18 2012
Hence the Gloom
The Economist‘s Lexington blog: As for the National Rifle Association bumper stickers arguing that only an armed citizenry can prevent tyranny, I wonder if that isn’t a form of narcissism, involving the belief that lone, heroic individuals will have the ability to identify tyranny as it descends, recognise it for what it is, and fight …
Dec 17 2012
We’re not doing enough. And we will have to change.
The president on Sunday, in Newtown. Full text here. Almost unbearable to watch, for the heartbreak. A few quick observations: You can see the gravity of sadness — almost the literal gravity — weighing on this man, as though the force of grief itself is pulling on his face. His hair is whiter than ever. …
Dec 17 2012
200+ Years Ago
MG Siegler: Honestly, I don’t give a shit that you think you have the right to own a gun because someone 200+ years ago said you do to prevent (or allow for) an insurrection or whatever. If this issue is going to be solved, you’re going to have to agree that in the 21st century, …
Nov 25 2011
On Violence: Accepting What I Could (and Couldn’t) Have Done
As the tens of readers of this blog are no doubt sick of being reminded, I was the victim of a violent assault about a year ago in Washington, DC. It’s impossible for me to give you any meaningful explanation of the psychological aftermath of such an event in any brief form. But one particular …
Dec 03 2010
The Attack
On the evening of October 26, I was returning home from my second day of training at my new part-time job. I was in the midst of a transition; in my last week at my desk job as a communications manager at a nonprofit and moving to working weekends and some nights so I could …
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