jared lee loughner

‘Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand’

Jan 11, 2011
David Sirota calls this Steve Almond essay the best take he's seen on the Giffords shooting and it's hard to disagree. "What happens when a large and well-armed portion of our citizenry can no longer apologize?" Almond asks. "When humility becomes another form of humiliation? Their heroes exhort them: Never retreat. Reload."
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Gun Crazy

Jan 11, 2011
We may not be sure that the bloodbath in Tucson had anything to do with politics, but we know it had everything to do with our nation's insane refusal to impose reasonable controls on guns.