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Guns vs Cars? Would You Send Your Child There
An alternative way to consider the risk difference between gun-related and traffic-related fatalities is presented. To permit the grossly disproportionate rate of gunfire deaths in US children to...
View ArticleA Glimpse Into Non-Self Defense Concealed Carry Killings at Eating and...
North Carolina may soon become another state that allows concealed handguns into restaurants, including those that serve alcoholic beverages. The legislation is NC House Bill 111 (HB111). During...
View ArticleJFK on the Press
More than ever, we need a press with ‘abrasive’ qualities, one that fact checks, digs for answers and participates in creating an informed public. I turned on the tube to some ideologically-driven...
View ArticleHealthcare and GOP Cognitive Dissonance
My wife is once again fighting for her life following a leukemia relapse. The type of cancer she has can be cured, but the treatments are expensive, the recoveries prolonged and difficult each often...
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Romney: Raising Taxes on Small Business Owners Will Cost Jobs. “Poppycock”!
Mr. Romney’s claim during the first presidential debate that increasing the income tax rate for highly successful small business owners would result in job losses is nothing less than a scare tactic...
View ArticleA Certificate of Conception
”If the law is going to say that individual life begins at conception, it behooves those who hold that position to think through the radical expansion of state authority (and diminution of women’s...
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Republican Economic Policy: When Facts No Longer Matter
“…there’s remarkable consensus among mainstream economists, including those from the left and right, on most major macroeconomic issues. The debate in Washington about economic policy is phony....
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Gun Rights Fatal Flaw: Attacking American Diversity
Although individual groups representing blacks, Hispanics, and women have called for stricter gun control measures in the past, none of them have carried enough clout at the polls to effect...
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The Year the GOPs Con Game was Exposed
The GOP’s decision to reinstate tax cut policy in 2001 exposed their hand. It was not about deficit reduction, growing the economy, or job creation. It was about ideology and, no doubt, special...
View ArticleAchieving Gun Control: Exploiting The NRAs Unavoidable Implosion
The extremist position the NRA leadership takes in opposing virtually all gun control regulation, along with its associated anti-diversity rhetoric, has placed it at odds with the majority of gun...
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Gun Violence and Children: A Cold and Broken Hallelujah
An Unspeakable Pain I was supposed to be in the delivery room for the birth of my first. But it was the urgent voice of a nurse that changed all of that. I was left standing alone in the hospital...
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The Link Between Widespread Gun Ownership and Gun Violence in America
Examination of raw data as well as multiple academic studies support the link between widespread gun ownership and increased gun violence across both countries and states. The US exhibits by far the...
View ArticleLetter to Eric Cantor. Gun-Related Deaths in US Children: Government Complicity
The following was e-mailed to US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office on the date of this posting. January 13, 2013 Re: Gun-Related Deaths in US Children: Government Complicity Dear...
View ArticleGun Safety and Children: Our Government’s Appalling Double Standard
Had a corporation in an industry federally regulated for safety been aware of a high level of product-related death and injury in children, obstructed attempts to look into the matter, obstructed...
View ArticleThe Problem with Congress? Look No Further Than the Gun Debate
With 11 of the 18 Senate Judiciary Committee members benefitting from gun lobby financial contributions, the impartiality of both their opinion and eventual votes is drawn into question. The Newtown...
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Selection of the AR-15 Rifle in Premeditated Indiscriminate Mass Shootings
A total of four independent, premeditated and indiscriminate mass shootings occurred in the latter half of 2012. There was no connection between the shooters and the victims, and no reason was...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Assault Weapons Ban
The finding that the AR-15 rifle was being actively selected for premeditated indiscriminate mass killings in 2012 fundamentally changes the debate regarding Senator Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban....
View ArticleNC Voter ID Law: Beyond Civil Rights
With but minor corrections and some clarifications made during re-tying, what follows below is a replication of an electronic communication sent to my NC House (Nelson Dollar) and Senate (Tamara...
View ArticleVoter ID Law and a Human Rights Atrocity of Unspeakable Proportions
Last month I issued a communication to NC legislators regarding my concerns that laws, like the NC Voter ID law, may represent something far more serious than just an obstruction of a civil right....
View ArticleNC Voter ID Law vs Human Rights: Lawmaker Communications Should Be Made...
The following is a reproduction of electronic correspondence sent to NC Speaker Tillis and NC Senate President Pro-Tem Berger on February 4, 2014, as well as other North Carolina lawmakers identified...
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