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Australia Takes Collective Responsibility For Curbing Gun Violence, US Should Follow Suit
As the new work week begins, a sharp lesson is playing out for the entire world to witness. Australia is showing that a nation can choose life over ideology, as the United States shows what happens when ideology is chosen over life. Two horrific acts of gun violence took place this weekend. At Brown University, Continue reading
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Saturday’s Mass Shooting: Moral Indictment Of Nation Unwilling To Protect Its Citizens
The mass shooting at Brown University today is a barbaric and unacceptable tragedy that once again exposes the nation’s inability to confront its epidemic of gun violence. Two lives were taken, and eight more were injured during what should have been an ordinary day of final exams, leaving students terrified and a community shattered. The Continue reading
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Nino Amato Wants You To Care About Gun Violence In Our Nation, Support Reasoned Proposals
One of Madison’s sound public voices and civic-minded citizens posted a thoughtful and needed statement on Next Door about what can be done to curtail gun violence. Nino Amato wrote what I think every person who cares about this horrific social ill should take the time to read. After his posting, I show from just Continue reading
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Red Flag Law Makes For Another Election Night Success
It felt really good on Election Night to see determined voters and concerned citizens take a stand. In state after state, contest after contest, there was a clear message being sent that no one could miss. Concerns about our democracy as evidenced by Pennsylvania ballots piling up to secure the underpinning of their Supreme Court. Continue reading
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Local Teenager Facing Financial Nightmare Of Gun Violence
Gut-wrenching is the best word I can find to describe what it felt like to read the Wisconsin State Journal story about Samuel “Samy” Garduno-Martinez. He was one of six students shot at Abundant Life Christian School in December of 2024. Today, that young man has been hospitalized for over nine months, requiring ongoing specialized Continue reading
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Toxic Hyper-Masculinity Made For Deadly, Absurd Weekend
This was an awful weekend with unleashed violence across the nation and the most boorish behavior on parade. To top it off, Sunday evening the nation watched a 60 Minutes segment that underscored what is happening in the nation and how we got to the place we now find ourselves. I was truly surprised that Continue reading
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Humphrey History Minute: Protecting The President From Guns And White House Intruders
It is good to be back doing what I love. Here are two historic nuggets that I think would make teaching history more meaningful for school students. Continue reading
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Graphic Nature of Gun Violence Should Be Shown On News, Public Needs To See Results Of Gun Culture
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the dastardly crimes being committed through orders from President Putin’s generals, along with the mass deaths needlessly perpetrated by the violence committed by Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza, make for graphic and painful images on news programming 24/7. But when it comes to the carnage in our own nation Continue reading
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