Packing and Parenting: Should People With Children Not Keep Guns in the House?
I found my dad’s gun when I was ten years old. I remember a few months before, him and my mother did a massive clean out of their closet and among platform shoes, tie- dye blouses and bell bottoms was...
View ArticleNew Orleans Girl Dead from Self-inflicted Gun Wound
This year has been a really bad one for kids and accidental gun deaths, and this latest story from New Orleans is part of a very sad trend. CNN reports that a 5-year-old girl died Sunday after...
View ArticleBoy Shot Hours After Receiving High School Diploma
Crossing that stage after four years of high school is an important, happy moment for the graduate and his family. Eighteen-year-old Isaac Rinas’ happiness was cut short when he was gunned down just...
View ArticleGun Violence: Why Parents Should Worry About PG-13 Rated Movies
Your kids want to get in line right away to see their favorite superheroes fly across the screen. Not so fast; a new study says PG-13 movies, the rating a lot of big-budget action flicks get, have the...
View ArticleMother to Mother: Trayvon Martin’s Mother Writes Open Letter to Michael Brown...
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin speaks from a place she can truly attest to. Fulton watched, mourned and waited for justice in the case of her son and George Zimmerman in 2012 and now we...
View ArticleCompton Gets Rifles: Do School Police Officers Really Need Military-grade...
It’s been 11 days since 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer, and people are still demanding answers. While President Obama acknowledged, “In too many communities,...
View ArticleSafe Streets: Ex-Convicts Protect Baltimore Streets, Mediate 685 Conflicts
In Baltimore, the streets are safer because of the staff of Safe Streets, a program set up by the Baltimore Health Department to combat the violence in some of the unsafe neighborhoods. This program’s...
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