Category Archives: Gun Violence

President Obama and Gun Control

Posted on January 8, 2016 by kkanet

Dear President Obama, I was touched by your speech introducing the executive measures you are putting in place to reduce gun violence. Your evident compassion for the victims of gun violence and for the grieving friends and family members of … Continue reading →

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Response to President Obama’s address to nation on 12-14-13

Posted on December 19, 2013 by networkforpeace

Response to  President Barack Obama Weekly Address December 14, 2013 In his weekly radio address on December 14, 2013 President Obama speaks of the terrible tragedy of Newtown and the sadness we feel over this and other school shootings.  He … Continue reading →

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Mass Shootings—Why do they happen?

Posted on October 25, 2013 by networkforpeace

As mass shootings and other school killings continued to make headlines in 2013, this fall students at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City bravely took on a play about the 1999 Columbine High School shooting — Columbinus. Although the … Continue reading →

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The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself?

Posted on February 14, 2013 by peggyray1

Why are so many people so afraid today of so much?  As a peace educator remarked recently in a blog discussing guns, “The U.S. seems to have become a culture constrained by fear: fear of some threatening other invading our … Continue reading →

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