commongunsense

It has not been nice in Minnesota in the last few weeks. The term Minnesota “nice” may apply to a lot of us here in Minnesota but it’s not nice when bullets are flying around in neighborhoo...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/05/22/minnesota-nice-2/

It took a long time for the public and media to understand the “side effects” from shootings. As with the COVID vaccines, meant to protect us from a potentially deadly and highly infectious d...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/05/04/vaccine-for-shootings/

It’s April 20th. Yesterday was the “anniversary” of the bombing of the Oklahoma City Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. 168 people died. The nation will not forget that on April 19th, a man...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/04/20/april/

I started to see the headlines in the media and then on Facebook and Twitter. It was one shooting after another over the week-end. Here is the list ( but there could be more): 8 dead after shoote...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/04/19/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-shootings/

I have been in a nonsensical “discussion” on a Facebook posting of a local TV station about the mass shooting in Indianapolis. In a ridiculous series of comments, which I must conclude come o...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/04/17/the-blame-game-or-who-can-we-blame-for-mass-shootings/

Those are the words I heard an employee of the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado say as he described the scene of the mass shooting on Monday. Someone yelled these words and of cour...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/03/24/gun-run/

How do these two words go together? In the month since the insurrection, most of us are absorbing Jan. 6th. Accounts of the day have come slowly. It’s often difficult to process trauma immediat...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/02/07/gaslighting-and-white-supremacy/

I told you so. I have been writing for years about violent right wing extremist groups. I have been writing about common sense. I am not alone. The gun violence prevention movement has been doing...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/01/30/a-warning-unheeded/

Today is the most significant inauguration in my lifetime. The countdown has begun. By 11:00 my time President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will take over the reins of a much wounded Am...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/01/20/the-most-important-day/

I have been thinking about what happened at the Capitol yesterday. It was an attempted coup. It was insurrection. It was domestic terrorism. For years, people in the gun violence prevention movem...

https://commongunsense.me/2021/01/07/insurrection-at-the-capitol/