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Carrying Guns on Pennsylvania Campuses May be OK

May 13, 2013 By Abigail Ortlieb 2 Comments

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Though many schools have umbrella policies to ban all weapons, some universities are allowing firearms to avoid possible lawsuits.

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After Watertown, Can We Blame the Parents?

April 20, 2013 By JD Roberto 5 Comments

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JD Roberto asks: What can the fathers of children lost in other American tragedies—Oklahoma City, Columbine—teach us in their responses to grief?

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Guns and Fatalism

April 12, 2013 By Eric Sentell 24 Comments

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Eric Sentell shoots down the argument that “if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”

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What Are You Prepared to Do?

April 11, 2013 By J. A. Drew Diaz 22 Comments

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In case of a violent attack, J. A. Drew Diaz says that it’s time to embrace the corollary to the Boy Scout motto: be prepared to fight back.

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Before We Talk Gun Control, Let’s Talk Self Control

April 2, 2013 By Mark Vander Ley 19 Comments

School counselor Mark Vander Ley sees the issue of gun control as a broader societal issue of individuals taking responsibility for oneself

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Game Violence

March 8, 2013 By Zachary Engel 8 Comments

A new generation of first-person shooter games causes players to reconsider violence and control.

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Madness

January 22, 2013 By Carl Bosch 37 Comments

In the near future, Carl Bosch imagines one rural Pennsylvania school district instituting gun training for its teachers. What’s next?

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The Tyranny of Rights

January 12, 2013 By Steve Jaeger 82 Comments

In an age of nuclear weapons and mass shootings, does it still make sense to uphold an American’s constitutional right to bear arms?

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Shame Is Why We Fight

January 6, 2013 By Vironika Tugaleva 29 Comments

When a man can’t soothe his woman’s anxieties, he has failed to protect her. And in our culture of masculinity, failed men are expendable.

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Open Thread: Is There a Crisis in White Masculinity?

December 17, 2012 By Kathryn DeHoyos 25 Comments

Would we even talk about it if there were?

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“But I Know It’s Not Real!” – Kids, Video Games and Guns

September 20, 2012 By The Weeklings 12 Comments

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.

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We Don’t Want to Play Anymore

September 20, 2012 By David Olimpio 7 Comments

David Olimpio wanted to be a spy when he grew up. Now he’s glad he left violent games in boyhood, and worries about the men who did not.

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Playing with Guns

September 19, 2012 By Andrew Bardetti 5 Comments

We teach kids that driving a car is a responsibility, but we still teach kids to drive. What do we teach them about the responsibility of gun ownership?

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Waterloo Sunset’s Fine: An Insight into Male Solitude

August 28, 2012 By Christopher Young 10 Comments

One of the main symptoms people with depression describe isn’t upset, but detachment.

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