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How Assault Weapons Make Mass Shootings Deadlier

Let me tell you about my neighbor. He built this car. He put a combine with spikes on the grill so it could maul a human’s body. The thing looks like something out of Mad Max. He attached a flamethrower on the sides so he could torch people before he…

Health

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How Assault Weapons Make Mass Shootings Deadlier
How Assault Weapons Make Mass Shootings Deadlier
Health

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The hidden data of mass shootings

On the hunt for a new way to measure the impact of mass shootings The revelation came to my wife after many frustrating conversations with pro-gun lawmakers in the bowels of congressional offices on Capitol Hill. She’s a smarter gun law advocate and a survivor of the Highland Park parade…

Culture

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The hidden data of mass shootings
The hidden data of mass shootings
Culture

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Leukemia Has Forced Me Into a Life Audit

Time to take stock of what’s important — I picked the wrong week to get cancer, I thought. I gazed over the downtown buildings of Chicago. On a normal June day, the skyscrapers would shine bright in summer sun. But a veil of grey smoke and soot had settled over the city–courtesy of fires thousands of miles away…

Healthcare

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Leukemia Has Forced Me Into a Life Audit
Leukemia Has Forced Me Into a Life Audit
Healthcare

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The Aftermath of My Wife Crashing a Fox News Press Conference

In the footage, a Fox News anchor mumbles to a camera man that films him. Behind him stands a podium strapped with microphones where the police just finished briefing the press on the Covenant School shooting in Nashville. They’re about to do a recap of the press conference when my…

Culture

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The Aftermath of My Wife Crashing a Fox News Press Conference
The Aftermath of My Wife Crashing a Fox News Press Conference
Culture

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One Thing you Learn from Shooting an AR-15

Notes from the Range My wife was part of a mass shooting (see story). As part of her new-found activism, she’s traveled to Washington D.C., and worked with senators to figure out how we, as a country, can have some sort of smart gun management. The problem, she says, is not the lawmakers who…

Gun Violence

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One Thing you Learn from Shooting an AR-15
One Thing you Learn from Shooting an AR-15
Gun Violence

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Sep 17

The People of Zoom

Illustrations from zoom meetings.

Art

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The People of Zoom
The People of Zoom
Art

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Apr 11

Gun Violence News: March 25-April 5, 2023

Manny Oliver, an activist for smarter gun measures and the father of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed at the Parkland, FL, shooting, was arrested at the Capitol for speaking out and “disrupting” a heated debate about gun control in the House of Representatives…Junior senator Maxuel Frost hailed Oliver in a…

Gun Control

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Gun Violence News: March 25-April 5, 2023
Gun Violence News: March 25-April 5, 2023
Gun Control

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Mar 31

Defining Assault Weapons Right Now is a Hot Mess

What are assault weapons, exactly, and why are they so slippery to define? The current definition of an assault weapon is part of the gun problem in this country. No one can seem to agree on a good definition. People have politicized the definition into a stalemate. The New York Times, in an article in 2013, lamented defining these guns “could never be…

Gun Control

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Defining Assault Weapons Right Now is a Hot Mess
Defining Assault Weapons Right Now is a Hot Mess
Gun Control

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Mar 17

The #1 Reason People Own Guns

Last month, I watched the city board meeting in McHenry County, IL. The city of McHenry was voting on becoming a “sanctuary city” for the recently passed Protect Illinois Communities Act. This meant they were discussing whether to comply with the recent ban on assault weapons. When it came time…

Gun Control

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The #1 Reason People Own Guns
The #1 Reason People Own Guns
Gun Control

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

·Jan 27

One Important Question about ChatGPT

Sifting through the mess At first, reading all these posts about ChatGPT squeezed the panic glands in my brain. Should I pack it up and find another career? Is this singularity, and will the robot police be showing up at my door soon? But after I calmed down a bit, I said to myself…

ChatGPT

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One Important Question about ChatGPT
One Important Question about ChatGPT
ChatGPT

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