Today’s release - a bit different - brings you two separate news stories. If you’re fascinated with maps, well, that’s what they are about; if your priorities lie elsewhere, I think you’ll find the stories significant, speaking to broad issues, even to how we will live in the world.
Growing Up, Growing Old, Growing Out
When you are 10 years old, the world is small. Happiness is easy to come by. And on that particular day I was ecstatic. I am sure I grinned from ear to ear as I returned to the car where my Mom patiently awaited, no doubt planning her next stop on a long list of errands. She had dropped me off at the local shopping mall, to sell my pre-1964 silver coins to a coin dealer, a bounty collected from my paper route during the past year.
GUNS IN AMERICA
Is This Dynamic Debate Now Changing?
Ever long for the day when senseless violence will be gone for good?
Are guns-as-threat going the way of the dodo?
Or will the future be a rerun of tragedies we have known?
This blog takes a serious look at murder in the U.S.A. It sets out three perspectives we’ve never heard in our lifetime. Not from the NRA. Not from Congress.