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Texas Hold ‘Em From Plain Sight
Soon, schoolteachers in a small town in Texas may be wielding guns along with their chalk and red pens. Though Texas law does not permit the visible possession of guns on school property, a legislature-created loophole now allows those bearing concealed handgun licenses to freely transport their weapons on campus.
The New York Times reported [...]
Granny and the second amendment
Gun control means nothing as long as people are stupid. Stupid enough to, say, sit your 4-year-old granddaughter down in a Sam’s shopping cart right next to a purse that contains a loaded gun.
I wish it was a bleeding heart hypothetical. But it’s not. Instead, it’s a 4-year-old girl with a bleeding heart.
In law, they [...]
Nine years spent learning, but what have we learned?
4/20/2008: It’s been nine years since Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decided to honor Hitler’s birthday their way. Nine years since they made a mockery of school safety by barging into Columbine High School with shotguns, slaughtering 12 and wounding 23.
And has anything really changed? Sure, I mean of course things have, but have they [...]
staying human
Clay Violand, who miraculously survived the VA-Tech shootings, tells his story to NPR. He was in French class when they all heard the gunshots. Violand says Cho ended up returning several times to shoot up the room, hitting everyone but skipping Violand each time. Why? Violand has no idea.
“I thought I was shot and [...]
backlash
Virginia Tech Koreans— and let’s face it, members of Virginia Tech’s entire Asian community— are being served a double helping of tragedy now that the racist backlash to the shootings has begun.
Young-je Ko told Salon’s Joe Eaton that “Korean students have been e-mailing and calling each other since the release of [the shooter's] name [...]
dozens killed in Virginia Tech shootings
On this tragic and upsetting day in which at least 29 33 are confirmed dead and dozens more injured in shootings on the VTU campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, a shout-out to the staff of the campus newspaper, the Collegiate Times.
The student paper originally broke the story and continues releasing updates:
Monday, April 16th 2007 9:47AM
Shots were [...]
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