Uvalde School Shooting

A Murmuration of Police Birds of a Feather Each spring and fall, North America and Europe host the impressive and timeless Dance of the Starlings. Flocks of these birds gather in what’s called a murmuration, coordinating their movements into intricate, sweeping patterns, giving the sense that the flock itself is a living, breathing sky-amoeba reaching from tree to…

The Green Party of New York State is currently deliberating over a statement on gun control that was inspired by the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX, just two of the many gun massacres that have taken place in the United States this year. The statement is…

Remember the police department in Uvlade, Texas that stayed outside of Robb Elementary school for well over an hour while a gunman killed nineteen students and two teachers while wounding seventeen others? Suspended. The entire police force. To that, I say, bravo. I like this move. As a tax-paying citizen…

The Governor Won’t Budge On Gun Control — But He Could — The emperor — the Texas governor — has no clothes. That’s why he set a precondition to face his challenger, Democrat Beto O’Rourke, in their first and likely only Texas gubernatorial debate ahead of the midterms: no audience. Clearly, Abbott can’t face his constituents, especially the families of the 19…

The massacre of 19 third graders and two of their teachers in Uvalde, Texas has evoked still raw memories of the all too similar occurrence in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, but the political reactions remain remarkably the same. The gun lobby, otherwise known as Republicans who carry, calls for increased…

Put gun shop owners, not school children, in the cross hairs. — In my last article, I introduced the topic of where I think the Green Party should put its energies if we want to pioneer a new strategy to bring sanity to America’s broken and intolerable gun control regime, the failure of which is leading to our ongoing nightmare of mass…