This Is Not Normal
On April 8 President Biden announced a series of executive actions to curb America’s gun violence epidemic that kills a child or teen every 2 [...]
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On November 6, 17-year-old Da’Qwan Jones-Morris, a former Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® scholar from St. Paul, Minnesota, was killed when he was accidentally [...]
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The Truth About Guns in America
“Pop, pop, bang, bang Schools, communities, houses too Nobody’s safe, they’re Coming for you” - 12-year-old boy in Washington, D.C. Once again this week the [...]
Read MoreProtect Children Not Guns!
“Sometimes, I sit back and I have to escape from what I see and hear every day.” I hope this opening line of Milwaukee 11-year-old [...]
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Our All American Gun Epidemic Continues to Threaten Children
It happened again. On August 31, a gunman in West Texas armed with a semiautomatic weapon killed seven people and injured 25 others. One of [...]
Read MoreDisarm Hate
On August 2 I wrote about the relentless scourge of gun violence and the two children killed in Gilroy, California and asked: Why does gun [...]
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Protect Children, Not Guns
Will our nation ever decide to prioritize children’s lives over guns? Once again the headlines this week were all too familiar: “‘Nothing short of horrific’: [...]
Read MoreAmerican Exceptionalism at Its Worst
On March 15, a terrorist carrying two semi-automatic weapons and three rifles attacked worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 men, women, [...]
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“I Will Never Forget That Day”
“I was in my 4th period Holocaust history class. We were presenting our projects on hate groups found on college campuses…As we sat at [...]
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Moving Forward to Prevent Gun Violence
When 26-year-old Stockton, California councilmember Michael Tubbs was elected in 2016 as Stockton’s first Black mayor, its youngest mayor ever, and the youngest mayor in [...]
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