I appreciate what you have said here, Josh… and have a similar life story, I guess… even to the running someone off from my home with a shotgun… which I went out to the car where he was and apologized for, a few moments after it happened.
I felt the ‘togetherness’ after 9/11, too… but the need to ‘get Revenge’ wasn’t in my mind. THAT response led to…
A fascinating and depressing article and with your background Polly, it’s somewhat ironic that there have been less (reported) deaths in the war in Donbass since April 2014 (~8,000) than there have been gun deaths in the US in 2015 (~10,000)! As a Brit who has spent a lot of time in North America over the years I am completely mystified by the gun…
Yes. I find myself studying men to see the scorched earth patriarchy has wrought upon their access to emotional resources. I’m not very far along, but there is pain there. They don’t know it because maybe there’s no words for it (the equivalent of female-labor).
All of your postings are so relevant. Recommend recommend recommend.
Realistically, what has to change in USA before gun controls are put in place? This is yet another example of loose gun laws adding to the pile of misery, that as you say, now only seems to seriously affect the immediate families with a tailing off effect the further you travel from the shooting. Surely things must change, and the love of guns must…
