“But I Know It’s Not Real!”– Kids, Video Games and Guns
Samuel Sattin introduces a new generation to the latest in violent video games, and realizes that much has changed since the days of Zelda and Duck Hunt.Originally appeared at The WeeklingsI can’t say...
View ArticleGun Dreams
In our fantasies, a gun ends all arguments in our favor.When I was nineteen years old, I took a job as a prison guard in the Middlesex County House of Correction. At that time, the prison was an old...
View Article12 Year Old Boy Arrested for Fake School Shooting Call. Can You Suggest Ways...
Yahoo! News is usually my go-to source for light and airy news stories throughout the work day—but today, I was flat out disturbed. When Yahoo reported that a 12-year old boy was arrested for making a...
View ArticleCoup d’État
A missionary growing his first chin hairs comes face to face with revolutionary soldiers in the Dominican Republic.The summer after my freshman year in high school I was able to grow my first bit of...
View ArticlePolice and COPS: The Vasectomy Files 7
Jonathan Stack’s scary—but funny—experience with being nearly arrested in Guinea leads to a revelation.Years of making films abroad and still, it’s always exciting to go somewhere new. I have covered...
View ArticleIowa Gun Law Places Us All in the Crosshairs
Blind in Iowa? Well, here’s a gun permit.While a small posse of extreme right-wing ideologues have ultimately fulfilled their campaign pledges to their red-district constituents to close shop on the...
View ArticleA Man Was Shot In The Chest And You Can Guess Exactly What Happened Next
Killing a man in the United States is faster and easier than ordering fast food at a drive-thru. —-He died. In the ambulance or at the hospital, I’m not sure. But he died. According to preliminary...
View ArticleAre We Raising Our Boys to Fit in the Man-Box?
They were just three American men on a train until the unthinkable happened.—It’s said that rocking side to side is soothing and sleep-inducing. Though the Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris is...
View Article7 Gifts This Dad Would Rather Get Than Guns (You Know, for Father’s Day and...
What’s better than a gun, tank, or bomb? The answer: pens, homes, and playground equipment. —I prefer a pen—a whole drawer of them, actually—than a gun or even a sword. And rather than bullets give me...
View ArticleWhat They Don’t Tell You About Your First Time Under Fire
Former Marine and present UN Field Security Officer, Dewaine Farria, shares his gripping insight into courage—told through the experience of his first time under fire.—They may have told you that...
View ArticleMass Shootings and Men
Embed from Getty Images—Most mass shootings are mostly about men. The worst mass shootings are called wars. Wars used to be waged and then were over with for awhile. Now they just keep going.Mass...
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