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A new year of MAGA madness and subversive pop

Guns have become the leading cause of death for American kids

The gun control movement has won important legislative and legal victories since the massacre at the Connecticut elementary school a decade ago. But not significant federal legislation.

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The Club Q shooter had threatened his family and told police he would kill them, too. El Paso County politicians refused to use their state's red-flag laws to prevent him from getting guns.

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The people of Florida have a right and a responsibility to protect themselves from violence. But death sentences have never been proven to decrease crime and violence.

The mundanity and insanity of gun death in America

What if all our schools required training in skilled, non-violent conflict resolution as a form of peace literacy and moral awareness for their students. Would that not be one of the most useful education skills for life that we could give them?