In the last couple weeks, local schools have been testing their new weapons detectors, and area high schools plan to have them up and running for daily […]
Tag: school shooting
School shootings endanger kids, teachers, democracy
by Jerald McNair I remember the days when the only thing students worried about in school was getting good grades, and when there was a healthy supply […]
June 5 letters to the editor
Guns changed since Second Amendment Another horrific mass killing of children in schools — now in Texas but previously in Florida, Connecticut, Colorado and Florida. How can […]
So much for the good guy with a gun
So much for the good guy with a gun. That, you will recall, was NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s preferred solution to America’s epidemic of firearms violence. “The […]
Uvalde, Texas shooting: A failure of several levels
There are no adjectives that can accurately describe the gruesome act committed by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 children […]
WVU professors weigh in on prevention, long-term effects of mass shootings
As the country continues to be at odds over solutions to the mass shooting/gun control issues plaguing the nation, two professors at West Virginia University are sharing […]
Will the cycle end?
Another mass shooting. Another school shooting. Another senseless tragedy. What is there left for us to say that someone else hasn’t already said? Thirty-one people, including more […]
May 29 letters to the editor
Will history repeat without Roe v. Wade? In 1944-45, Helen Cooper was a first-year teacher in Cincinnati when she told her seventh-graders their classmate had died from […]
A Latino-on-Latino mass shooting
by Gustavo Arellano When I heard that a gunman had killed multiple schoolchildren in a predominantly Latino town in Texas, I immediately thought: white supremacist. How could […]
Never again … until it happens again
Our country has suffered yet another unspeakable tragedy: 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, armed with two assault rifles, opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 […]