Tag Archives: gun violence

#Wearorange Weekend Starts June 1 – Find an Event Near You

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Trish Nelson

My family and I lived in an area where shootings were a daily occurrence. But from an early age, the idea was that if we avoided certain areas at certain times, we’d be ok. We were wrong. While walking his … Continue reading →

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Iowa Students Hold Walkout #NeverAgain

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Trish Nelson
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Iowa’s Joni Ernst One Of Top Recipients Of NRA Support

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Trish Nelson

*Update 02-16-18:  Doubling down on her pledge of allegiance to the NRA, Joni Ernst repeated this absurd talking point after the mass shooting with a military style automatic weapon this week in a Florida high school. “Mental health care, not … Continue reading →

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What President Obama Did (Hint: The Second Amendment Is Safe)

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Trish Nelson

Background checks, enforcement of current laws, improving gun safety technology, better mental health treatment and reporting. Read this and see if you still think President Obama is coming after your guns. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/04/fact-sheet-new-executive-actions-reduce-gun-violence Gun violence has taken a heartbreaking toll on … Continue reading →

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Shootings Are Personal

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Paul Deaton

Any useful discussion of guns in society is personal. Frequent shootings have been reported in nearby Cedar Rapids, often in the neighborhood where we lived when our daughter was born. We heard gunshots while we were there. Most times a … Continue reading →

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It’s The Guns

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Trish Nelson

There is a Facebook post currently being circulated that offers an illuminating analogy.  It is posted below. Also, I would like to pose the question, why is it only gun owners that seem to have NO IDEA that we have … Continue reading →

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Father’s Day In America 2015

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Father’s Day should be a time for families to enjoy spending time together. For some 30,000 families again this year, gun violence has removed a member or members of such a celebration. That is nearly 100 people that lose their … Continue reading →

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Newtown: Two Years Later

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Dave Bradley

Who can forget the stunning news two years ago tomorrow. A mass shooting in a grade school. A grade school for God’s sake. Twenty kids under 7 killed in cold blood. Perhaps the worst horror anyone could imagine. Civilians dying … Continue reading →

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The Obstructed View: Gun Proliferation Is The Problem

Posted on September 19, 2013 by bfiasamosborne

A few people have such a religious-like fixation on guns as all powerful and inerrant instruments of do-and-undo violence that they would even press them into the hands of a blind person, blame places that for safety are to be … Continue reading →

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I Saw A Picture Of A Child Today

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Dave Bradley

Early morning, before the sun came up. I was beginning the day with the usual checking of news and blogs. One post had a story of how one mother from Newtown was grieving the loss her son. Her son was 6 … Continue reading →

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