Editor’s Note: Again, we have had senseless mass shootings. Again, the GOP has prevented any real reform of gun control laws. It seemed fitting, therefore, to rerun the following article by Michael E. Berumen. This appeared back in April of 2018. Alas, so little has changed.     By Michael E. Berumen For some years…

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Maybe this type of thing hits closer to home for me because I’m a dad and I know my little boy will be in the American public school system in just a year when he goes to kindergarten but, this new trending hashtag on Twitter, #IfIDieInASchoolShooting, is about the saddest and most sobering thing I’ve…

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We’re Just Whistling Past the Graveyard if We Don’t Focus on Defeating Republicans at Every Level By Michael E. Berumen In the wake of the most recent school shooting tragedy in Florida, there is the customary hue and cry of media cognoscenti, gun control activists, and many politicians professing outrage. Social media are abuzz with…

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