The Violence Is Rooted in the Culture, Not the Gun Store- August 29, 2007 Not long ago, I brought my gun to Realco Guns in District Heights for cleaning. It is a vintage, J.C. Higgins .22-caliber rifle that my dad purchased from Sears around 1964. We belonged to a father-and-son club in my home town, Shreveport, La., and this was the gun we used whenever the group went out to shoot at tin cans.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801701.html?nav=r... Animal Cruelty Isn't Judged on a Level Playing Field- August 22, 2007 While eating a porterhouse the other night, I began to see the steak for what it was: a hunk of meat, blood and bone. I managed to disgust myself even more by imagining that a charbroiled piece of pit bull would not have looked much different from the gristle of beef on my fork.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101977.html?nav=r... For One D.C. Teen, a Respite From Violence- August 8, 2007 While many in the Washington area were participating in National Night Out, Danny Govan was taking another approach to crime prevention. The 16-year-old District resident, whose family has been racked by gun violence, simply got out of town. Adios to Dodge City.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080701771.html?nav=r... The Hierarchy of Victimhood- August 1, 2007 The homicides had occurred in dribs and drabs, 375 of them throughout the Washington area last year. A couple of bodies found in an alley here, a child struck dead by a stray bullet there -- most sprinkled along the border between the District and Prince George's County. Not really enough to disturb our collective conscious.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073101821.html?nav=r... |