In another round of gun violence that’s going to add more fuel to the gun control and background check fire, a 17 year old student in Cincinnati, Ohio shot himself in the head. Fortunately nobody else was shot, and the attempted suicide didn’t kill him. The student remains in the hospital in critical condition today, and classes [...]
Gun Control Is Not The Real Problem
When I read through the news every day, I’m sometimes amazed with the volume of issues that are facing society; that make our world more complex by the minute. The actions of someone gone crazy with a gun, set off a string of new issues to be addressed, but they are usually ones that have [...]
Federal Gun Task Force at Work…What will be done?
Barely into 2013 and his second term, President Obama is working on the difficult issue of gun politics, initiating a gun task force lead by Vice-President Biden. I hope he and this task force can muster all the political finesse that will be required to get around the NRA and pro-gun supporters in Congress. It [...]
The Impossible Nature of Gun Control
My metaphor for the past year involves an empty champagne bottle I indulged in to celebrate its beginning. This theoretical bottle of champagne, for some wondrous and miraculous reason slowly filled up during the year based on the events that occurred. This past year’s bottle of champagne would be over-flowing, as 2012 was. Some memorable [...]
Shooting at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin
I imagine that by now, news of the shooting that killed six people and injured three others in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, has reached everyone. For those who haven’t yet heard, the shooting occurred at a Sikh temple, Sunday morning August 5th. Coming only two weeks after the Aurora, Colorado shooting, it is hard to find [...]
Gun Control Concerns in Virginia
Taking us to Richmond, Virginia this morning is a piece on gun control. A group of law enforcement officials is trying to prevent a “federal proposal to make state-issued concealed weapons permits valid nation-wide.” Now, I don’t know much about current gun laws but I do know that this particular proposal sounds like a senseless [...]





