Below are posts associated with the “gun control” tag.
🔗 linkblog: How the Kansas City shooting proves the 'good guy with a gun' idea is a fallacy'
Depressing but important read.
🔗 linkblog: Calls for action on gun violence meet silence from Kentucky's Republican legislative leaders - Kentucky Lantern'
Local shame in response to local tragedy.
🔗 linkblog: New York gun applicants will have to submit their social accounts for review : NPR'
Gun control is good, but surveillance isn’t. I don’t think this is the answer.
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky school district bans backpacks for older students | Lexington Herald Leader'
I went to high school post Columbine, so we could only use mesh or clear backpacks and were required to wear IDs at all times. Even at the time, that felt like security theater. Schools can’t solve this problem with decisions like these–we need to decide as a society to rethink our relationship with guns.
🔗 linkblog: Texas GOP's new platform says Biden didn't really win the 2020 election : NPR'
I get that some of this is bluster and posturing, but that doesn’t make it any less worrying. This is the same state GOP that leaned into Gab a year or two ago.
🔗 linkblog: McConnell mum on guns as U.S. Senate recesses for a week – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville'
Disappointing but unsurprising. I wish McConnell would show as much willingness to call out Republicans on guns as he does for Ukraine.
🔗 linkblog: Richard Scarry's 21st Century Classroom | Boing Boing'
Tom the Dancing Bug is usually just the right level of dark.
🔗 linkblog: 'The Onion' has reused this satire after more than 20 mass shootings since 2014 : NPR'
This is one of the best things The Onion has ever done.