You will probably find yourself at least once, if not repeatedly, I tell my students, talking with a person about the newly empty seat at their table.. It seems almost a cliche image. But if you talk to people who have experienced an unexpected loss, they will tell you about the very real pain of looking at that tangible reminder of once-occupied space.
Empty desk. Empty office cubicle. Empty chair. Between domestic shootings, street shootings and mass shootings, we areEach year, journalists write stories that tabulate annual homicides regionally and nationally. You will start seeing some of those pieces published soon. Many of those numbers come from counts by local and federal law enforcement agencies.
A violent and unsafe country to be visited.
If Biden won't do anything about the open border, the Repubs won't do anything about gun control, student loans, or climate change. KJP can blast them at her press conferences. That would be pointless since the next election is two years down the road.
Let's start with the crime riddled democrat controlled cities.
Yea and you employ pedofiles petermarksdrama
More people will be gunned down in Chicago next weekend than all the “mass shootings” in a year. Your party of psychos did that.
You can’t keep saying that when we’ve had over 600 mass shootings this year so far…there is literally no day when we don’t have mass shootings, not to mention other gun violence & suicides because WE DESPERATELY NEED GUN CONTROL.
Nah. Constitutional carry and a total invalidation of all federal gun laws combined with tough minimum sentencing to reduce repeat offenders is the only way to have a safe society.
Youngkin is a jerk when it comes to gun safety for citizens
It’s time to ratchet up the sentencing on offenders that use guns or are caught with a gun.
Its time to ralk about the ugly truth, mental health not gun control
Time to look at why so many black men are criminals
It's past time to deal with the mental health crisis. Bring back insane asylums with straight jackets and Nurse Ratchet.
We need to teach/train US citizens (especially children) the laws of the USA - it is wrong to murder, it is wrong to steal, etc. Doing so would do more to stop gun violence than gun control. teachmorality
Gun control won’t stop violence. We’ve been doing it since Cain slew Abel. It’s a human heart problem. And when we allow barbaric, brutal violence in the womb, it becomes sanctified.
Gun Control would not have prevented this tragedy. So, no, it’s not time to prevent legal hun ownership
We can't wait until there isn't a shooting to talk about it, because there is never NOT a day when there isn't a shooting.
Well should I buy a AR or a AK…which one does the Post think is better and or more effective for defense
There have been countries at war that had less gun violence than the US.
I'm wondering if his relative was among the dead, would it be the time to talk about gun violence then? This is just such a pathetic talking point it's almost embarrassing. And if it wasn't so serious it would be laughable
There's a BILLION guns in the United States, three for every person. Half are unregistered. The whole gun control issue is a joke. Government can't even control sales of new ones. Somebody needs to get real about this fact, because the whole media narrative is false and broken.
Talking wont do nothing.Actions speak louder than words !
We should get rid of cars first. They cause more deaths than guns and aren’t protected by the second amendment.
Gun control is using both hands.
Would you please give me the specific new gun control law that will prevent criminals and mentally unbalanced people from obtaining guns and shooting others. Keep in mind more people are shot with hand guns each year then any other firearm.
Yeah... rolodex of handy responses to things you don't want to do: 1: DELAY (let the emotion cool off, and details to be forgotten. Humans don't want to be reminded of horror; don't want to believe all these shootings are happening...
So a legally obtained gun was used to kill a bunch of people that would not have otherwise be prevented due to there being no red flags in his background to prevent its sale and the answer is more regulation?
Thoughtless response from a corrupt Republican governor!!
what, we need to slaughter 1000 babies before gun enthusiasts will give an inch?
The Nation knows how much Virginia loves gun
Two things we need to stop saying as a nation. 1. It’s too soon to talk about gun control 2. Gun control doesn’t work More people are dead. More will die. We need to do better than shrug our shoulders and say nothing can be done. Who will be next?
Does Gov Youngkin know that he sounds like a coward when he says it’s not time.
Past time to talk about America's past time.
Please! The only thing holding off a one party dictatorship is an armed populace. Are forefathers it seems were more smart than the ones today!
It's time to talk about mentally ill people and the help they need, not guns.
How about the mental illness epidemic! Guns don't pull the trigger themselves.
Talk about the thugs and mentally deranged!!!
Murder is already illegal. There’s nothing to discuss.
Standard R response
Well, he only cares about CRT!
Fake news and democrats never want to talk about mental health problems and hatred of God, only thing they want is to remove freedom and the constitution.
Biden won't close the border, the Repubs won't talk about gun control. That's fair.
Support it, don’t be a trouble maker. Nobody benefits from WaPo talking trash.
It's time to punish shooters according to their crime and not their race.
The ones who do this will get the guns. Period.
Good God, man! How many more people, including children, have to die for you to admit you need to do something about gun control!!
Makes you wonder why Democrats didn't pass their dream version of gun control over the past two years when they controlled both the Executive Branch and the entire Legislative Branch (both the US Senate and the House of Representatives). I guess they didn't want to.
We should be talking about mental illness as well. Truly rampant nowadays. Many conversations currently need to be held. We have ghettos across the country that are like war zones daily. I don’t think the elites are interested in fixing Any of it in the slightest.
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And who is using those guns I wonder
This looks like an article about guns, not violence.