BY JOHN K. WILSON Young adults are under attack. Dick’s, Wal-Mart, Kroger and other stores have announced that they are raising the age limit to 21 for gun purchases. Donald Trump expressed his support for raising the age limit, declaring that “it’s a big issue now,” despite the opposition of the National Rifle Association to…
BY HANK REICHMAN In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting, we are hearing the usual offensive nonsense from political supporters of the NRA: only a “good guy” with a gun can stop a bad guy with one, so everyone should arm themselves. And, of course, there’s the continuing mantra that common sense gun…
In a commentary published yesterday by The Chronicle of Higher Education, an English professor at Utah State under a headline with lack of logic (English professors should know better, I can say that, I am an English professor), “Guns on Campus Have Already Curtailed Free Speech,” blames the right to bear arms on “feminist and…
What happened at Kansas University this week completely disgusted me, and everyone who believes in academic freedom, or any kind of freedom, should agree. Professor David Guth tweeted in response to one of the gun-related mass shootings this week: “The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons…
This post originally appeared in Raging Chicken Press earlier today. If you are interested in this issue, I will continue to follow this issue as over the next few weeks – KM Just over a week before Kutztown University will welcome the families and friends of soon-to-be graduates, the university has decided to revise a…
The following op-ed piece was originally published in the Los Angeles Times. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Hey, Kids, Don’t Forget Your Guns Op-Ed What’s missing from the typical kindergartner’s backpack? A pistol. December 28, 2012 By Daniel Akst Here we go again. After the tragic school killings in…