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OMNI
VIOLENCE USA NEWSLETTER
#9, January 29, 2015.
Compiled by Dick
Bennett, OMNI BUILDING A
CULTURE OF PEACE
AND JUSTICE.
(#1 Feb. 25, 2008; #2 August 20,
2011; #3 April 8, 2012; #4 July 26, 2012; #5 Aug. 22, 2012; #6 June 8,
2013; #7 Nov. 7, 2013; #8 March 24, 2014)
What’s at stake:
Instead of a Frontier solution to violence, let’s dig some wells
of understanding. How does violence originate? What is the connection among the many
kinds of violence?
Is violence systemic, a part of a culture
(or absent from it)? Is violence
intrinsic to our economic system
of individualistic profit-making? How do US militarism and imperialism
promote personal violence?
Here is the link to all OMNI newsletters:
http://www.omnicenter.org/newsletter-archive/ Here is the link to the Index : http://www.omnicenter.org/omni-newsletter-general-index/ Many of OMNI’s topical newsletters
confront different kinds of violence:
assassinations, battering, bullying, causes of wars, consequences of
wars, death penalty, domestic violence, drones, empire, extra-judicial
killing, hatred, individual wars,
International DAY to End Violence Against Women, militarism, torture,
women, etc. Also see the newsletters
on resistance to violence: Gandhi,
MLK,Jr., Peace Churches, Peace Organizations, Dept. of Peace (proposed),
nonviolence, conflict resolution, diplomacy, negotiation, peacemakers, UN,
compassion, etc.
(#1 August 17, 2014; #2 September 3, 2014; #3 November 24, 2014)
Gun
Violence USA Newsletter Nos. 6-8 at end.
Contents: Gun Violence
USA Newsletter #9
Arkansas
Willems, Republican
Gun-Advocate Legislator Charlie Collins Returns
Professors Speak
Up Against Arming Teachers:
Sam Totten
Sidney Burris and Steve Boss
Doug Krueger
Nation: Guns on Campus
Guns on
Campus, Google Search
Utah
Teacher Accidentally Wounds Herself in School Bathroom
Nation and World: Gun Violence
PBS Frontline, “Gunned Down: the Power of
the NRA”
Newtown
Foundation, 2nd National Vigil for Victims of Gun Violence
TomGram and
Jones, Nation Gone Crazy
Guns and
Murders, US v. Britain
Nobel
Charter for a World Without Violence
ARKANSAS
Fayetteville
legislator wants to take schools out of decision
This article was published
today at 1:00 a.m.
A Northwest Arkansas
legislator is trying again to require public universities and colleges to
allow staff members with concealed-weapon permits to carry firearms on
campus.
On Thursday, Rep.
Charlie Collins, R-Fayetteville, filed House Bill 1077, arguing the state's
33 public higher education campuses would be safer if employees had guns
with them.
"There are crazy
killers that make the decision to try and harm our loved ones on college
campuses, and for some of these crazy killers, the reason is there are a
lot of innocent lives that are vulnerable," Collins said.
"[Killers] know they won't be surprised by someone there being armed;
they know that conceal-and-carry is banned on campuses."
Currently, the 173,349
conceal-and-carry permits don't allow weapons to be carried in some places
such as polling stations, courthouses and sporting events.
Since 2013,
permit-holding staff members can carry on public college campuses if the
schools choose to allow it. So far, no school has done so.
It's the third time
Collins filed such legislation. In 2013, he said he was forced to amend the
bill, which eventually became law, that authorized the concealed weapons
unless schools took action to prohibit them.
According to
Department of Higher Education Director Shane Broadway, all of them did.
Guns aren't allowed at the 33 public campuses save for certified law
enforcement officers.
Broadway declined to
comment on Collins' most recent legislation but said he has forwarded a
copy of the bill to school officials.
Under Collins'
legislation, the state's 11 private colleges and universities still would
be given the option to bar weapons.
The president of
Arkansas' Independent Colleges and Universities, Rex Nelson, said
administrators aren't seeking to increase the number of weapons on campus.
"[Member schools
found that] the safest policy is that firearms [on campus] only be in the
possession of certified law enforcement officers," Nelson said.
Several college and
university presidents and chancellors were unavailable for comment Thursday
afternoon.
But Charles Welch, the
Arkansas State University System president, indicated his campuses are no
more inclined to allow more guns on campus than they were two years ago.
"Just as we did
in the last legislative session, we have reservations about concealed
weapons on campus," Welch said in a statement. "We were appreciative
of [Collins] for allowing our board of trustees to consider campus views on
this issue. The law enforcement personnel, faculty, staff, and students on
our campuses have all been in agreement against concealed weapons. We would
appreciate continuing to have the opportunity to opt out."
Asked whether a third
attempt might be successful, Collins said given the new, more conservative
makeup of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the bill has a
more receptive audience.
"The group in
[the Legislature now] are stronger gun owners' rights advocates,"
Collins said. "I think more of the people that are here now see this
issue more like I do."
Collins said similar
efforts in other states have been largely unsuccessful. He thinks passage
of the law in Arkansas could be a "beacon and leading light" to
the rest of the nation.
Asked whether he
expected the same objections from state schools that were raised in past
years, Collins said the states' schools are subject to the will of the
people and its elected officials.
"The people of
Arkansas sent more people to Little Rock who believe in protecting the
Second Amendment rights of Arkansans than the people had sent
previously," he said. "The elections might be the data point to
show where mindsets are shifting a bit."
NW News on 01/16/2015
Samuel Totten 1-17-15
Should Concealed Handguns Be
Allowed on Campus Other than in the Hands of Trained Police Officers? The
Answer is NO!
As
a recently retired professor from the University of Arkansas, where I
taught and conducted research for 25 years (1987-2012)[B1] , I find Charlie Collins, R-Fayetteville, proposed
legislation that would require public universities and colleges to allow
licensed faculty and staff members to carry concealed handguns on campus
not only alarming but muddleheaded. Collins essentially argues that by
allowing faculty to carry concealed handguns on campus it is likely to
deter [B2] “crazy killers” from attacking (wounding and killing)
innocent people on college campuses. One has to wonder whether Collins has
spent any time at all considering the dangers that might ensue should
faculty and staff choose to “strap up” on campus. (More on that in a
moment.)
Tellingly, thanks to
Collin’s efforts (this is the third bill he has introduced to the Arkansas
House of Representatives dealing with the issue of allowing professors to
carry handguns on college campuses), “since 2013, permit-holding staff members can carry on public
college campuses if the schools choose to allow it. So far, no
school has done so” (italics added) (Willems, 2015, n.p.). Collins
acknowledged that in 2013, “he was forced to amend the bill, which
eventually became law, that authorized the concealed weapons unless schools
took action to prohibit them” (Willems 2015, n.p.). In his article,
“Guns-on-Campus Push Rekindled,” Jeff Willems (2015) notes that “According
to Department of Higher Education Director Shane Broadway, all of them did.
Guns aren't allowed at the 33 public campuses save for certified law
enforcement officers.” Now Collins, via HB 1077, is attempting to get around
that “barrier.” Essentially, he does not want universities and colleges to
have a say in the matter; rather, he wants to allow each professor and
staff member to make his/her own decision in regard to whether he/she will
carry a concealed handgun on campus. Let’s hope that the third time is not
the charm.
Has
Collins played out the scores of scenarios we might see on college or
university campuses if such a bill is passed? I don’t think so.
Just
off the top of my head, here are just over a half dozen that should
frighten anyone who has ever stepped onto a college/university campus:
· First, the accidental
mishandling of guns is nothing new. Just one simple
mistake (dropping the weapon, grabbing the trigger by mistake,
etc.) and a pistol could fire and possibly wound, if not kill, someone.
· Second, unless a
faculty and/or staff member is going to carry the weapon in a holster,
there is a better than even chance that someone, sometime will come across
the weapon. That opens up a whole slew of scenarios in which other faculty
members, staff members or even students could end up picking up a weapon,
thus opening up the possibility that the weapon could be mishandled and
result in a tragedy.
· Third, what if two or
more faculty or staff members reacted to what they believe are gunshots,
pull their own weapons and mistakenly take each other as one of those
“crazy killers,” and fires off a round or two and wounds or kills the other
person?
· Fourth, there is
always the possibility that if one does use his/her weapon on campus that
the rounds will hit an innocent party. This is particularly true on a
crowded campus, whether it be out in the open or in the corridors of a
building.
· Fifth, there is always
the possibility that the gun could be stolen and used illegally by the
culprit who stole the weapon, just increasing the chance of “gunplay” on a
campus.
· Sixth, in our
litigious society, a university would be opening itself up to a slew of
lawsuits should a faculty or staff member ever accidentally wound or kill a
student or fellow faculty or staff member.
· Seventh, it is not
unheard of for faculty members to get into very heated arguments, sometimes
to the point of almost engaging in fisticuffs. Likewise, it is not unheard
of having faculty or staff members on college/university campuses who have
mental problems and or are hotheads or lacking in commonsense. [B3]
One could go on and on
delineating possible scenarios. But what is the need or point?
So, should concealed
handguns be allowed on a campus other than in the hands of trained police
officers? The answer is a resounding NO!
References
[B3]Seventh, there is the risk of
arguments escalating to violence that could involve a deadly weapon.
Dear Folks:
As the Education Committee moves closer to discussing the
gun-bill, we need to raise our voices.
I have another blog posting that speaks purely from the
teacher's perspective—no stats, no numbers, just a response to the prospect
of a militarized classroom. You can find that one here: http://bit.ly/teacherstake.
Please read when you have time & even more importantly,
share these links. It's important that we get our opinions moving
now.
Thanks very much,
Sidney
DOUG KRUEGER, “GUN COMMENTS AT COLLEGE FORUM BACKED
UP.” Northwest Arkansas Times (April 27, 2014).
“. . .the futility of the gun owner fantasy that a
well-armed college faculty and staff would make the campus safer. . . .there
is a wealth of solid evidence showing that increased civilian gun ownership
and gun availability makes us less safe, n
ot more safe.”
Krueger gives diverse statistics:
violent crime has decreased since, in 2013 18 deaths out of over 20
million people, while accidental shootings kill 600.
GUNS
ON CAMPUS Google Search, January 16, 2015
In the
news
Arkansas
Online - 3 hours ago
Guns aren't allowed
at the 33 public campuses save for certified law
enforcement officers.
The
News-Press - 2 days ago
My
Fox Boston - 14 hours ago
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National
Conference of State Legislatures
Overview of state laws
concerning guns on college campuses.
keepgunsoffcampus.org/
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The Campaign to
Keep Guns off Campus Issues Statement on
Florida State University Shooting. At November 20, 2014. FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE. November ...
www.armedcampuses.org/
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A guide for students
& parents: review our list of colleges and universities in the United
States forced to allow guns on campus. Find your state now.
concealedcampus.org/
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Dec 11, 2014 - Advocating for the
Right to Self-Defense on Campus.
www.forbes.com/sites/collegeprose/2013/02/21/guns-on-campus/
Forbes
Feb 21, 2013 - Proposed legislation
in some states would require colleges to permit concealed firearms on campus,
but such laws would only make our ...
www.tampabay.com/...guns-on-campus/2207937
Tampa
Bay Times
Nov 25, 2014 - "But the reality
is, there is a ban of guns on campus, and that did not stop an
attacker. The law never stops the bad guy. It only stops the good ...
www.motherjones.com/.../gun-laws-college-campus-lone-st...
Mother
Jones
Jan 23, 2013 - Does your state allow
concealed guns on college campuses? Hover over
an individual state for further details. (Also see lists below the
map.) ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../texas-guns-on-campus/
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Huffington Post
Gun rights advocates
experienced a win Tuesday when the Texas Senate voted to allow students to
keep guns in their cars on college campuses.
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“ACCIDENTAL
GUNFIRE INJURES UTAH TEACHER.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Sept. 12,
2014).
An
elementary school teacher was wounded when she accidentally fired her
concealed firearm in the faculty bathroom.
“Utah is among the few states that allow people
with concealed-weapons permits to carry guns in public schools.”
"Gunned Down: The
Power of the NRA" - Preview(0:31) On Jan. 6,
FRONTLINE takes you inside the politics and the power of the NRA.
Press Release | FRONTLINE Investigates the
Unrivaled Political Power of the NRA
December 11, 2014, 12:04 pm ET
In December of 2012, 20-year-old Adam
Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 26 children and
adults with a Bushmaster rifle before taking his own life with a handgun.
The tragedy shocked the nation, sparking
an outpouring of grief and widespread calls from the public for
politicians to “do something” about guns. The moment, it seemed, was gun
control advocates’ to seize. But like many times before, they ran into
intense opposition from a powerful political force: the National Rifle
Association (NRA).
On January 6, FRONTLINE presents Gunned
Down: The Power of the NRA — an investigation into the NRA, its
political evolution and influence, and how it has consistently succeeded
in defeating new gun control legislation.
“We’ve investigated
the history of how — even after Newtown, even after the shooting of U.S.
Representative Gabrielle Giffords — gun control has become a ‘third rail’
in American politics, with the issue essentially off the table
nationally,” says veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk (Losing Iraq, United States of Secrets, League of Denial, Bush’s War). “It’s been a bruising,
bare-knuckles battle fought over decades, and the NRA has won.”
Drawing on interviews
with leading voices on both sides of the gun regulation debate,Gunned
Down goes inside one of the country’s greatest divides to
illuminate how the NRA reinvented itself from a group of gun enthusiasts
and sportsmen with minimal political focus, to a powerful lobbying force
opposing any perceived infringement of the constitutional right to bear
arms.
“The base of the National Rifle
Association believes so strongly it’s more a religion,” former NRA
Executive Vice President Warren Cassidy tells FRONTLINE.
“It really has nothing to do with guns;
it has to do with freedom,” former NRA spokesman John Aquilino tells
FRONTLINE. “Do you give your freedom to the government or do you keep it
within yourself, within your community, within your family? And that’s
the broad appeal.”
FRONTLINE traces the emergence of one of
the NRA’s top leaders, Wayne LaPierre, and explores how he has activated
the group’s influential base in the wake of mass shootings. FRONTLINE
sits down with Congressional leaders, present and former White House
officials, Vice President Joe Biden, and gun-rights and gun-control
advocates. The film also features firsthand accounts from family members
of mass shooting victims, including Newtown.
“They had what I think any reasonable
expectation would be … ‘We have just been through the worst gun event in
history of the United States. And something surely is going to change,’”
Matt Bennett, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton on gun issues,
tells FRONTLINE.
Gunned Down traces what
happened next, and why.
“In Washington, they say that the NRA
came out of Newtown stronger than ever,” Kirk says. “This is a story for
anyone who wonders how that could be.”
Gunned Down — the crucial history
of how the NRA came to dominate the gun debate — airs Tuesday, January 6
at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) and will stream in
full, for free, online at pbs.org/frontline.
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Credits
Gunned
Down is a FRONTLINE production with the Kirk Documentary Group.
The producers are Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore and Mike Wiser. The director
is Michael Kirk. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The
reporter is Jim Gilmore. The deputy executive producer of FRONTLINE is
Raney Aronson-Rath. The executive producer of FRONTLINE is David Fanning.
About FRONTLINE
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funding is provided by the Park Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the
Wyncote Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major
support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler
Foundation.
NATIONAL VIGIL FOR ALL VICTIMS of GUN VIOLENCE — DEC. 11,
2014
By the 2nd anniversary of
the Sandy Hook shootings, an estimated 60,000 more Americans will have
died from gun violence.
Help us shine a light on this tragic toll. Join The
Newtown Foundation, States United to Prevent Gun Violence, Faiths United
to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.,
in supporting a national vigil to honor and give voice to ALLvictims and survivors of gun
violence. Together we can make a difference.
Together in Sorrow. Together in
Action.
50-State Vigils
Nationwide.
We are asking faith organizations and gun violence
prevention groups to hold concurrent vigils in each of the 50
states. Please sign up here to host a vigil in your state and we
will send you a Vigil Tool Kit.
You are cordially invited to attend the
2nd Annual National Vigil for All Gun Violence Victims
What: By December 2014, the 2nd anniversary of the
Newtown shootings, more than 60,000 Americans nationwide will have died
from gunshot wounds. We must continue to shine a light on the
epidemic of gun violence in our nation until these gun deaths are
reduced. The Newtown Foundation in partnership with the Washington
National Cathedral, States United to Prevent Gun Violence and Faiths
United to Prevent Gun Violence will host a 2nd annual national vigil
service of mourning and loving remembrance for all who have fallen victim
to the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in America on December 11th in
Washington D.C. -near the 2nd anniversary date of the Sandy Hook
tragedy. Please join families of victims of gun violence and
special guests in honoring all Americans affected by gun violence.
When: December 11, 2014 from 3:00-4:30PM
Where: Washington National Cathedral: 3101
Wisconsin Ave NW Washington, DC 20016
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One
of the grimmer small events of recent American life occurred just as 2014
was ending. A mother had her two-year old toddler perched in a
shopping cart at an Idaho Wal-Mart. He reached into her purse,
specially made for carrying a concealed firearm (and a Christmas gift from her
husband), found his mother’s pistol in it, pulled it out, and shot and
killed her. And she wasn’t the only victim of a child who came upon
a loaded weapon. Between 2007 and 2011, at least 62 children 14 or
younger died in
similarly nightmarish accidents with loaded weapons.
Nor was this specific incident an anomaly. In fact, if you are an
American, you are statistically in less danger of dying from a terrorist
attack in this country than from a toddler shooting
you. And by the way, you’re 2,059 times more
likely to die by your own hand with a weapon of your choosing than in a
terrorist attack anywhere on Earth. You’re also more than nine
times as likely to be killed by a police officer as by a terrorist.
And remind me, how many American taxpayer dollars have gone into
“security” from terrorism and how many into security from weaponry?
You know the answer to
that. In fact, guns of just about every variety seem to circulate
ever more freely in this country as the populace up-armors itself in yet
more ways. Think of it as a kind of arms race. Emboldened by
the National Rifle Association (NRA), Americans are ever more
weaponized. There were an estimated 300-310 million guns in
the U.S. in 2009 (a figure that hasundoubtedly risen),
and up to four million Americans
now own assault rifles -- one popular weapon of choice,
by the way, for mass killers. In the meantime, the percentage of
Americans who favor a ban on handguns (25%) has fallen to an all-time
low.
As for “carrying,” it’s now legal in every state in
America and allowed in ever more situations as well. In the last
year, for instance, Idaho, where that mother died, became the seventh state to
green-light the carrying of concealed guns on college campuses. To
put all this in perspective, less than two decades ago, fewer than a million
concealed weapons were being legally carried in the U.S.; now, more
than one million people
are permitted to carry such weapons in Florida alone. In
twenty-first-century America, the “right to bear arms” has been extended
in every direction, while there has also been a “sharp rise” in
mass killings.
Meanwhile -- since what’s an arms race without a second party? -- the
police, mainlining into
the Pentagon, have been up-armoring at a staggering pace. It’s no
longer an oddity for American police officers to be armed with
assault rifles and grenade launchers as if in a foreign war zone or to
arrive on the scene with a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle previously used in
our distant wars. And by the way, while much anger has
been displayed, by the police in particular, over the recent murders of
two patrolmen in Brooklyn by a disturbed man carrying a Taurus
semiautomatic handgun, that anger seems not to extend to his ability to
arm himself or to thepawnshop filled
with weaponry that originally sold the gun (but not to him).
One mistake you shouldn’t make, however, is to imagine that Americans
consider the right to bear arms universal. Just consider, for
example, the CIA’s “signature drone strikes” in Pakistan and
elsewhere. Over the last two presidencies, the Agency has gained
the “right” to drone-kill young men of military age bearing
arms -- in societies where arms-bearing, as here, is the norm -- about
whom nothing specific is known except that they seem to be in the wrong
place at the right time. The NRA, curiously enough, has chosen not
to defend them.
If, to a visitor from Mars or even (as TomDispatch regular Ann Jones points out)
Europe, all this might seem like the definition of madness, it's also
increasingly the definition of a way of life in this country. What
was once the “tool” of law enforcement types, the military, and hunters
is now the equivalent of an iPhone, a talisman of connection and social
order. It’s something that just about anyone can put in a pocket, a
purse, or simply strap on in the full light of day in a land where all of
us, even toddlers, seem to be heading for the O.K. Corral. Jones,
author of They Were Soldiers: How
the Wounded Return From America’s Wars -- The Untold Story,
has seen her share of carnage and experienced her share of stress.
Today, however, she considers another kind of stress, the pressure
to explain to others a country whose citizens don’t even notice how
inexplicable they are becoming. Tom
Is
This Country Crazy?
Inquiring
Minds Elsewhere Want to Know
By Ann Jones
Americans who live
abroad -- more than six million of
us worldwide (not counting those who work for the U.S. government) --
often face hard questions about our country from people we live among.
Europeans, Asians, and Africans ask us to explain everything that baffles
them about the increasingly odd and troubling conduct of the United
States. Polite people, normally reluctant to risk offending a
guest, complain that America’s trigger-happiness, cutthroat
free-marketeering, and “exceptionality” have gone on for too long to be
considered just an adolescent phase. Which means that we Americans abroad
are regularly asked to account for the behavior of our rebranded
“homeland,” now conspicuously in decline and
increasingly out of step with
the rest of the world.
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(54:10) PBS FRONTLINE “Gunned Down”
investigates the politics and power of the NRA.
FEATURED
FROM THIS REPORT
THE LATEST
From the NRA’s political evolution, to the group’s
relationship with firearm manufacturers, “Gunned Down” filmmaker Michael
Kirk answers your questions.
As FRONTLINE reveals in “Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA,”
premiering tonight on PBS stations and online, the NRA’s executive vice
president wasn’t always a gun enthusiast.
We’ll kick off 2015 with an investigation of the power of
the NRA and an examination of Vladimir Putin’s rise.
The gun-rights lobby still holds the edge when it comes to
gun policy in America, but gun-control advocates say they’re starting to
gain some momentum.
“Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA” premieres Jan. 6 on
FRONTLINE.
On Jan. 6, veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk explores
the power and politics of the NRA.
In the wake of Sandy Hook, the gun-rights lobby outspent,
out-organized and out-maneuvered gun-control advocates at both the state
and federal level.
Pro-gun moderates are quietly using background checks to
expand gun rights.
More than 1,000 new bills have been proposed at the state
level since Newtown. What’s happening in your state?
You’ve heard of the NRA. Now meet the gun industry’s lobby,
based in Newtown, Conn.
While conventional wisdom suggests that an individual’s
right to bear arms is enshrined in the Second Amendment of the
Constitution, it is, in fact, a relatively recent interpretation,
according to New Yorker writer and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
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2nd Annual
National
Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence to
#EndGunViolence
By December 2014, the 2nd
anniversary of the Newtown shootings, more than 60,000 Americans
nationwide will have died from gunshot wounds. As Americans we
are all affected by gun violence. That is why we must keep the
focus on the shame and tragedy of gun violence in our nation and
why we must ask our leaders to take action.
To that end, the Newtown
Foundation in partnership with the Washington National Cathedral,
States United to Prevent Gun Violence and Faiths United to Prevent
Gun Violence will host a National Vigil to #EndGunViolence. We will meet in loving
remembrance of victims and in determination to save lives moving
forward. This important National Cathedral event will kick
off a weekend of over 100 local vigils and related activities
nationwide. Please join families of victims of gun violence and
special guests in honoring all Americans affected by gun violence
to help make America safer for our children and our families.
December
11, 2014
3:00-4:30PM
Washington
National Cathedral
3101 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington, DC 20016
If
you are from the DC metropolitan area, please RSVP here.
If you need transportation
from Newtown or other US cities/towns and/or you are
interested in participating in Newtown Foundation/Newtown Action
Alliance activities while in DC on December 10th and
11th, please
register here.
Sponsored
by:
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Open
Carrying War-Grade Weapons into Your Local Target
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Dear Folks:
As you've probably
seen, the Open Carry Texas movement has been attracting a lot of attention
as its member have been showing up at fast-food restaurants and stores like
Target, openly carrying war-grade weaponry.
Recently, they
posted a 4:00 instructional video for how to handle your weapon
in an open-carry demonstration. Read my take on it here:
This video has been
getting a lot of attention lately. Thanks for your attention to this
posting!
Best Wishes, SB
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Pro-Gun Groups Challenge Fire Arms Laws
Moyers
and Winship, After Newtown
the Killings Continue and Gun Purchases Increase
Strasser,
2014 Violence Continues
Burris,
Gunsense, Meditation on Samsara
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umber of Murders, United States, 2010: 12,996
