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Newtown Tragedy, and the Wages of American Cruelty
I really don’t know what to say about the events in CT today, so close to where I grew up, at precisely the time my own children were in school. Tragic events like this are, in the end, inexplicable —...
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How many more must die? We need true gun control now, and our congressional delegation agrees. Today’s a great day to re-watch “Bowling for Columbine” and you can do so here. It’s a great day to honor...
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Four Reasons the NRA is a Red Herring
In the wake of another tragedy, calls for gun regulation rises again. Many citizens do not tend to “wait and see” what the politicians will do, and many expect a little saber-rattling and then see...
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RI Progressive Democrats Meeting Tonight
The Rhode Island Progressive Democrats host their monthly meeting tonight at the Rochambeau Library and there is much of interest on it agenda. “The General Assembly session is heating up, and we have...
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Externalities Kill
I can almost stretch my memory back to the day of Dec. 14, back through the fog of politicized media spin, the miasma of special interests spreading to capitalize on crisis and grief in one way or...
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Teny Oded Gross’ Unique Look At Gun Violence
Teny Oded Gross at the State House. (Photos by Ryan T. Conaty – for more, check out his awesome blog of RI photo essays) Something nefarious happened last week at the State House in regards to...
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The NRA, Bilbo Baggins, URI and Teny Oded Gross
Teny Oded Gross sounds off to State House reporters. (Photo by Ryan T. Conaty. Just like it did in Congress, it looks like the NRA will beat back stricter gun laws at the Rhode Island State House as...
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March for Aynis Vargas, victim of gun violence
12 year old Aynis Vargas For some reason, we’re not calling it a mass shooting. A shooter, wearing a black mask and camouflage pants opened fire on a party on Hartford Ave, wounding three women and...
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Cicilline is serious about background checks
Stephen Colbert may have had some fun with David Cicilline last night, but Rhode Island’s most progressive congressman is serious about his supporting background checks for gun owners. But first,...
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10 Wingmen: Should we tax guns and is government inherently evil
A proposed 10 percent tax on guns and ammo to help fund public/private nonviolence partnerships has shed light on a philosophical difference between Justin Katz and I. And we have a pretty interesting...
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Newtown Action Alliance’s Po Murray: It can happen anywhere
Po Murray, Newtown Action Alliance Vice-chair and co-founder of Newtown Action Alliance Po Murray gave a moving speech at the State House yesterday about living in the aftermath of an unspeakable...
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Teny Gross: Does the gun lobby have a racial problem?
Teny Gross Teny Gross, Executive Director of the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence, did not pull any punches yesterday as he spoke to a crowd gathered under the dome of the Rhode...
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Watch the highlights: Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence at State House
Jerry Belair, president of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence asked the following question, “Rhode Island law limits the number of rounds to five when hunting deer. Rhode Island law limits...
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Senate Finance scoffs at ‘guns and ammo tax’
The members of the Senate Committee on Finance had already made up their minds to dismiss any potential value offered by the proposed legislation long before Senator Gayle Goldin, the bill’s prime...
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Attacked on Facebook by an alleged lobbyist
Early Sunday morning (about 1am), I received an unsolicited Facebook-Messenger attack. I can only imagine it was a response to my most recent opinion piece on the hearing befor Senate Finance on the...
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Guns: Our uniquely American inheritance
The capacity for violence that was the midwife of our nation is turning upon itself. What are we to do about our guns? I have a gun problem. And so do you. I have a love of guns, but you probably...
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Sandy Hook parents speak out against gun violence
Po Murray (file photo) Mark Barden, whose seven year old son Daniel was murdered along with nineteen classmates and six teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, spoke at...
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A vigil for the 2nd anniversary of Sandy Hook in Providence
Jerry Belair On Thursday night the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence and the Religious Coalition for a Violence-Free Rhode Island held its second annual Sandy Hook memorial and vigil, A Voice...
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Group seeks to close loophole leaving guns in the hands of domestic abusers
Under Federal law, a person “convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic abuse” is banned from owning a gun for life. Yet in Rhode Island, this law is not often prosecuted, leaving weapons in the...
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The great gun giveaway: Or, how easy is it to get a gun online
The firearms industry and the consumers who rally against the notion of gun-safety measures do so using a public face of constitutional nobility. The rhetoric is one of rights and revolution as well as...
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