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Broken Kids, Not Guns

Posted on Sat, 05/28/2022 - 18:57

On Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a report titled “Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2021,” which logged sixty-one mass shootings last year.

Themes: 
violence
model imperative

High Risk, All Grown Up - Commentary

Posted on Fri, 11/09/2018 - 18:42

Themes: 
male vulnerability
violence
sexual violence

Promise First Do No Harm

Posted on Sun, 02/25/2018 - 22:10

We forget. Nonviolence begins in the arms of nurturing mothers and fathers.

We feel numbed-shock, sadness and rallying pockets of rage as another wave of violence ripples through our collective psyche. Personally, I celebrate our nation’s youth, like the boy in the Emperor’s New Clothes, exposing the hypocrisy of the gun-lobby and implicitly the greed of the military industrial complex, hiding behind flag-waving (pseudo) patriotism that worships killing.

Themes: 
nurturing
touch
parenting
violence
culture

Nipping The Roots Of Violence

Posted on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 11:47

What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails
And puppy-dogs' tails
And what are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice
And everything nice… Really?

Themes: 
violence
sexual violence
gender equality

Guns, Bonding and Addiction

Posted on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 11:10

By some measure violence is down. The sensational home run violence, mass shootings are up, along with the exponential increase of SWAT teams using military armaments and shock-and-awe tactics against living room poker games.

The less bonded we feel to other human beings, nature and the environment the more likely we are to feel defensive and in a completely industrial, virtual, technological society, the quicker we reach for that .38 tucked under the pillow.

Themes: 
bonding
violence

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