gun violence

Shrinking in an expanding world

By Ken / January 13, 2016 / Comments Off on Shrinking in an expanding world

Maybe gun control proponents should try harder to understand those fears, and where they come from. Following a life-altering event, many of us are faced with two starkly different choices. We can contract and withdraw into ourselves. Or we can gradually expand, grappling with both the acute pain and a new reality that’s dawning. We…

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‘Not one more’ must come from each of us

By Ken / May 30, 2014 /

“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”  — Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present   The killing of six college students a week ago…

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