April 17, 2007.
Joshua Holland: Tragedy brings perspective.
Just take a step back for a moment and think about how frightening those shootings at VA Tech were yesterday, and then consider -- painful though it may be to do so -- that Iraqis face that kind of massacre every day, and they have done so for several years. As Larry Johnson points out, below, 32 people died in Virginia on Monday and 65 perished in separate attacks in Iraq the day before. The latter hardly made the news.
Consider, also, a small piece of the nightmare that our government unleashed: the violence that's plagued Iraqi universities during the occupation.
April 17, 2007.
Jane Smiley: What I think about guns.
Some years ago, I was talking to a man about guns. At the time, I didn't really know anyone with guns (still don't), but he did. He had had guns himself. He said, "I gave my gun away, because when I had it, every time something happened that made me mad, my mind would start circling around that gun, and I would be thinking about using it.
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