A Hard No… and a few Firm Responses

As I trawl WordPress, I find a lot of posts relating to guns, gun control, and the US Constitution’s 2nd Amendment. These are subjects I have tackled before, more than once (the last four words all link to a different post), but the topic keeps coming up, because A: gun violence in the USA seems […]

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A Bit of Everything

There’s been a few things going on in the news lately which have grabbed my attention and reminded me of what we, as a society, need to highlight and challenge. I’ll start with something I saw on Twitter earlier today… https://twitter.com/daniellaw1998/status/985815856947998720?s=21 Ableism is sadly all too prevalent in society, even in 2018. It is aided […]

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Tangled Webs

In the wake of the tragic shooting in Orlando that left 49 people dead and 53 people injured, there’s been a huge surge in discussion about Islamic extremists, gun control, and the attitudes of the major political establishments in the US. Caught up in all this is the LBGT community of Orlando (the Pulse nightclub, […]

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You Americans and your Guns…

Before I begin in earnest, let me state first and foremost that I know not every American will feel the same way about this issue, and this article is certainly not intended to tar every American with the same brush. This piece is by and large, a response to some of the more vitriolic outbursts […]

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