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A dangerous equation: Killer + Media hype = Celebrity
When I came across the U.S. map on the back of the Saturday News Tribune I assumed the dark and light shading of the states represented recent presidential polling. No so. It depicted the scenes of...
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Are we merely sheep for a mass shooter’s slaughter?
NOTE: The following column was written and titled two days prior to the recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. While I believe the content is that much more relevant, the events in Newtown are so...
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A safer nation? Make compromises and pay the costs
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” -Franklin Delano Roosevelt What may have been true in 1933, at least in the context of FDR’s speech, seems pathetically out of place today. Our current...
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Five ideas for public safety in 2013
Now that most people have wandered back home after the holidays, it’s time to crank up the new year. We mark this transition with appropriate hopes, resolutions and predictions. In keeping with...
View ArticleThe mental health system – where “broken” never goes out of style
If Google were truly the revealing search engine we think it is, I should be able to download the entirety of our state’s mental health system simply by entering a single keyword: Broken. Sean...
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Murky lessons from Tacoma, Santa Monica shootings
Last Thursday in Tacoma an argument allegedly prompted Michael Dillon to fatally shoot his next door neighbor. On Friday a man now identified as John Zawahri shot his father and brother and torched...
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Is America even interested in breaking the cycle of gun violence?
As Apple rolled out its new iPhone and Tacoma employees learned that flip-flops were not proper work attire (who knew?), gunshots and explosions took scores of lives in some of the world’s most violent...
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Low casualties in LAX shooting highlight new police response
When a disturbed man pulled an assault rifle out of a bag in a crowded Los Angeles airport terminal and shot four people last Friday, it marked the 17th mass shooting just this year in the U.S. The...
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