Thursday, February 15, 2018

I have been roaring ever since that shooting in Fla. yesterday

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day saying "I'll try again tomorrow.”
MARY ANNE RADMACHER(gratefulness.org)
We Resist
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The school shooting in Parkland, Florida today marks the 29th mass shooting in the US in 2018. There have only been 45 days in 2018.
Ron Alexander shared The Other 98%'s post.
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I could not resist this article by Nickolas Kristoff in N. Y. Times,: IF WE CAN REGULATE AUTOS, WE CAN REGULATE GUNS: "Two of the deadliest mass shootings in modern American history have occurred in the last six weeks. So let’s not just mourn the dead, let’s not just lower flags and make somber speeches. Let’s also learn lessons from these tragedies, so that there can be fewer of them. In particular, I suggest that we try a new approach to reducing gun violence – a public health strategy.
America Has More Guns
Than Any Other Country
The first step is to understand the scale of the challenge America faces: The U.S. has more than 300 million guns – roughly one for...
...We Have a Model for
Regulating Guns: Automobiles
Gun enthusiasts often protest: Cars kill about as many people as guns, and we don’t ban them! No, but automobiles are actually a model for the public health approach I’m suggesting.
We don’t ban cars, but we work hard to regulate them – and limit access to them – so as to reduce the death toll they cause. This has been spectacularly successful, reducing the death rate per 100 million miles driven by 95 percent since 1921..."

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