Why is an 8-year old child allowed into a gun show in the first place? Why is a little boy encouraged and allowed to test-shoot an Uzi sub-machine gun, or any gun for that matter?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living
As I think about the thousands of youthful victims of gun violence, I'm concerned that we're not hearing enough from the candidates for public office at all levels about what they will do to protect our children.
Pete Cenedella | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
Most American families have a funny old uncle. Someone who is amusing and affable from a distance, but with whom you never ever talk politics, especia...
Jessica Olien | Posted 08.24.2008 | Living
In elementary school, on the first day of every school year, my class was shown a video about being a "latchkey kid." Little Billy or Tony -- or whate...
Paul Helmke | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
Eight more moms may get to kiss their child good night on Mother's Day. Another 48 moms might get to tuck their kids into their own beds of spending Mother's Day at a hospital bedside.
Paul Helmke | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
When we talk about making it harder for dangerous people to get guns, we usually focus on felons, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill. ...
Paul Helmke | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
No one benefits -- except maybe some "Mainway"-like businesses -- when we make our police officers work even harder to distinguish real guns from toy guns.
Peter Clothier | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
How could anyone in their right mind believe that those who authored the founding documents of this country intended that fire power be readily available to morons and maniacs alike?
Paul Helmke | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
The Student Pledge Against Gun Violence is simple. It reads: "I will never bring a gun to school. "I will never use a gun to settle a personal proble...
Jonathan Fast | Posted 10.23.2007 | Living
What seems perplexing to those who were children during the placid 1950s is how easily children come by guns.
Cheryl Saban | Posted 10.28.2008 | Living