Tag Archives: gun control
URBAN JOURNAL: Why not ban guns?
BY MARY ANNA TOWLER I’ve found it nearly impossible to avoid thinking about gun control as the stories kept coming over the past few weeks: 12 people killed and 58 wounded in Aurora, Colorado; six killed, three wounded at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin; a security guard shot and wounded at a Family […]
MEDIA: Gun ad on bus offends some
BY JEREMY MOULE There’s a public bus driving around Rochester with an ad for Jackson Guns and Ammo — a gun shop with locations in Henrietta and Scottville — on its side. Does the ad belong there? Elena O’Connor, a resident of the 19th Ward, says it doesn’t. “In a place that sees violence, I […]
READER FEEDBACK: 8/1/12
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: The causes of violence You overlooked two primary causes of violence in our society, whether it be in or out of the city (“Facing Facts on Violence,” Urban Journal). The Democrat and Chronicle’s July 22 editorial pointed out the abundance of illegal guns that must be brought under control. But the prime focus […]
NEWS BLOG: Crime guns’ origins vary
BY JEREMY MOULE This summer has seen plenty of news devoted to gun violence, from the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, to the high number of fatal shootings in the City of Rochester. Underlying each incident is a question: Where do these guns come from? In the Aurora movie theater incident, the alleged shooter purchased […]
NEWS BLOG: What I’m watching: Bob Herbert on Rachel Maddow
BY MARY ANNA TOWLER Bit by bit, we’ll learn more about the tragedy in Aurora. But from what we know so far, it seems clear that the 24-year-old believed to have carried out the massacre has a severe mental-illness problem. That subject itself is worth a national discussion: we need to put much more funding […]
NEWS BLOG: The guns in Aurora
BY MARY ANNA TOWLER What would compel a 24-year-old to walk into a movie theater armed with four guns and open fire? The suspect in that horror this morning is a college graduate student, so presumably he knew exactly what devastation he would create. And devastation it was: 12 dead so far, dozens more wounded. […]
