An Open Letter to Student Gun Control Activists From the President of Americans Against Gun Violence   Dear Student Activists, I’m writing to you on behalf of Americans Against Gun Violence to express our full support for your demands for definitive action to prevent future tragedies like the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14. Your outrage is reasonable and appropriate, and we applaud you for your activism. [...]

13 Days Later: A Tale of Two Countries (Reprise) A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence February 27, 2017   Note: If you’ve been reading my president’s messages on a regular basis, the title of this message will be familiar. I used the same title after the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas in which 58 people were killed and 422 were wounded. I’m going to keep re-using this title [...]

Valentine’s Day School Massacre in One of our “Safest Cities” A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence   On February 14, 2018, a 19 year-old former student armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle shot and killed 17 students and staff and wounded at least 14 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Parkland had been rated as one of Florida’s two safest cities, and the 15th safest city in [...]

Sacrificing Our Children to the Gods of the Gun Lobby A message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence February 4, 2018 It was accepted practice in many primitive cultures for adults to sacrifice children to the gods in the belief that the ritualistic killing of their most beloved offspring would somehow bring good fortune to their societies as a whole. Fortunately, this barbaric practice has been abolished in modern cultures – at least, [...]