Archive for February 23, 2018
One of the main talking points for gun-control opponents these days goes something like this: “Chicago has the strongest gun-control laws in the country, but people kill each other all the time there. Therefore, gun-control laws don’t work.” I’ve seen that said by multiple people in the news in the past week, and I haven’t […]
I’ve been meaning to put together a brief list of some articles I’ve read about Black Panther by black writers, but hadn’t managed it yet; so here’s a longer list that includes most of the ones I was going to link to, and a bunch of others that I haven’t read yet but am looking […]
I found this gun-control segment on The Takeaway yesterday useful. Lois Beckett, senior reporter for The Guardian US covering guns and gun violence, discusses a number of different gun control proposals, their viability, what they could accomplish, and how much they may actually address America's problem with gun violence. If I understood right, she said […]