Tag Archives: gun control

Giving up the gun [op-ed CCT 5 Februar 2013]

We need to deepen our thinking about guns. About our relationship to guns. In this agonizing renewal of the ancient controversy over gun control we are, as with abortion, polarized into two rigid camps, both to some extent in denial of nuances of actual experience, actual feeling. We all learn from early schooling that, as […]

February 7, 2013 – 12:25 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Shaming the NRA [op-ed CCT 8 January 2013]

If in this moment of outrage over Newtown we are really serious about more stringent gun control there’s an o bvious way of making the task easier. We can give up our need to reinvent the wheel. We could model new gun legislation on other developed countries, all of them statistically much safer than ours. […]

January 9, 2013 – 2:45 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged | Comments (0)