It's Been Said....

  Oh, Those Pesky Gun Free Zones Well, the NRA is back at it again advocating eliminating gun free zones. They're doing it from a kind of weird perspective using citations from discredited anti-gun control advocate, Dr. John Lott. Thank goodness, Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois was around to counter the NRA idiocy: Thank you, Governor Pritzker!!! To me, it's comical and tragic at the same time that the NRA continues going down this road along with so many others, of course, that are so easily countered. But, hey, it's the NRA after all. So, given the fact gun free zones still appear to be a major issue in the country, I thought I'd take a segment on gun free zones that I wrote about in another blog post awhile back,  On Gun 'Control', 'Gun Free Zones', and Arming School Staff (Amended)... , and make it its own post. That's what follows. On Gun Free Zones: Maybe we should be looking at eliminating 'gun free zones'. After all, the NRA has ha...

  Stop Saying Lives are ‘Lost’ to Gun Violence! Here of late, I've been seeing more and more people use the term 'lost' to describe those taken from us as a result of gun violence. In the most recent mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, it became doubly tragic when it became known a 2 year old was discovered wandering alone in the area. Both his parents had been killed. I have yet to see those describing this 2 year old's plight as anything but 'he lost his parents'. That's just wrong! He didn't lose his parents. They were taken from him. They were killed. They were murdered. Folks, we need to change the mindset.  Ditch the habit. People murdered with a gun do not ‘lose’ their lives. Their loved ones don't 'lose' them. I know, I know – the dictionary defines  'lose' as “to suffer loss through the death of a person”.  Whose ‘loss’ would that be, though?  Yours? Mine? How about the person who died? In gun violence vernacular, the ...