by Dr. Sabreen Akhter On the afternoon that the world found out about the brutal slayings of 19 elementary schoolchildren in Texas, I was trying to sleep. I work nights as a physician in a children’s emergency department, and I had a shift later that evening. When I awoke and ...
by Cynthia M. Allen In the aftermath of a tragedy like the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, when emotions and egos are running high, few of us have much wisdom to offer. We have our anger, which even when justified is largely self-serving, and we have fingers to point, which we ...
by Martin Schram “Seven Days in May,” the epic 1960s novel and a film starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Ava Gardner, was a fictional tale about right-wing Pentagon generals who tried to topple the U.S. government. Seven Days in May, 2022, the epic tragedy starring us ...
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 only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun,” he said, “is a good guy with a gun.” He said this on Dec. 21, 2012 — one ...
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 and two teachers. “Evil” is about as close as it gets. President Biden and some fellow Democrats predictably ...
by Ramesh Ponnuru The mass murder of children in Uvalde, Texas, coming just 10 days after the mass murder of shoppers in Buffalo, N.Y., moved former Sen. Bill Frist — who was the majority leader of a Republican Senate when President George W. Bush was in the White House — to issue ...