Preparing Little Brother for a Mass Shooting
By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang (@fkwang) The night before my youngest child – whom we call Little Brother – leaves on…
Tag: Gun Control
We Need Comprehensive Gun Control, Not More Racial Profiling
Last week, freshman Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) ended a marathon fifteen hour filibuster demanding that Congress finally do something — anything…
We Must Find the Courage to Defy the NRA
When I first moved to the United States from Canada, I was shocked by the casual normalcy with which Americans…
Senate (finally) confirms Vivek Murthy, country’s first South Asian American Surgeon General
It only took the US Senate 13 months. Dr. Vivek Murthy was nominated by the Obama Administration in November 2013…
One Asian American victim, another an Asian American hero, in SPU shooting
Yesterday marked another grim incident in this nation’s ongoing litany of gun violence. A man, identified as 26-year-old former LA Fitness janitor…
Gun advocate suggests slavery could have been prevented had slaves been granted right to bear arms
Larry Ward, chairman of Gun Appreciation Day, a made-up holiday to celebrate guns and gun owners, went on CNN on…
If only it didn’t take gun violence to end gun violence
Earlier yesterday, Jared Lee Loughner — the mentally ill Tucson shooter who killed six people and shot former Representative Gabrielle…
Reactions to Aurora: Lessons from the Bat?
Last Friday, just after midnight, the opening of one of the most-anticipated movies of the year, The Dark Knight Rises (the…