Author Archives: Al

We have put in place many “car controls” and “tobacco controls” to successfully reduce car- and tobacco-mediated deaths without banning cars or cigarettes. We can and must take the same approach with guns. Reducing such deaths by 25% would save 7,500 lives a year. Why should we just abandon those folks to their fate? Continue reading →

Those of us who think even one life lost to a bullet is wrong must keep the conversation going, to provide the same level of moral suasion that changed attitudes about drunk driving, or in an earlier era, about racial segregation. It can be done, it just requires concerted, systematic, repeated emphasis on what we should all agree on – that we don’t want any more mass killings in public places, be it of school kids, movie goers, any of us Continue reading →