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Because if no one is safe, everyone is

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Our nation has been through extensive dialogue on the role of guns and gun rights in our daily lives. I have heard endless arguments from the plethora (I love the word plethora; this has been a public service announcement) of sides, such as advocating a ban on handguns or positing increased numbers of guns carried at public schools in the interest of safety. Read More »

Cars (and guns) are dangerous

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While I was in high school, a friend of mine said to me, “Cars are pretty damn dangerous.” It didn’t require any special powers of observation to see this, and so I replied, “They are, indeed.” Sensing that I wasn’t looking at it in the same way, my friend continued “Think about it, we’ve made it necessary that we use these two-ton steel blocks, and move them at speeds that consistently result in death or injury” (Car accidents cause approximately 30,000 deaths in the U.S. each year). He was right, but it wasn’t anything driver's ed hadn’t taught me already. I knew/know the risk of driving, and try to follow the rules of the road to avoid aforementioned death or injury. Read More »

Gosnell case raises abortion questions

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Fox News correspondent and political comedian Steven Crowder (who will be speaking on Cal Poly’s campus Tuesday at 6 p.m.) recently released a video in which he revealed a large proportion of Americans have heard nothing about the Gosnell abortion trial happening in Pennsylvania. Read More »

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