“A bullet hit me, and I blacked out. I remember someone picking me up as they ran. They put me down on the floor and covered me with blankets. Someone was screaming. It took me a moment to realize that it was me.” |
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Recognize Teacher Appreciation Week, May 8-12 Next week kicks off Teacher Appreciation Week, and we at Brady are asking you to join us in giving teachers the best gift of all: schools and communities FREE from gun violence. |
We’re taking action in solidarity with teachers because, over the years, school shootings have skyrocketed and teachers and students have paid the price. Since the 1999 Columbine massacre, at least 199 children, educators, and others have been shot and killed in school shootings and 425 others will live with injuries for the rest of their lives.
This deadly trend has burdened our teachers, making it harder to focus on educating and more necessary to focus on their students’ survival, trauma, and grief. And it’s not just school shootings that burden teachers: Educators, particularly those in Black and Brown communities, must also often support the needs of students who live in communities disproportionately impacted by America’s gun violence epidemic.
The bottom line is that our educators deserve better. So, please, this Teacher Appreciation Week, visit our webpage to learn how you can show solidarity with teachers and help fight for a future free from gun violence. Together, we can help ensure students and educators are thriving in places of learning — not simply surviving.
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Remembering Ahmaud Arbery |
Monday would be Ahmaud Arbery’s 29th birthday. He should be celebrating with his friends and family. But three years ago, Ahmaud was senselessly murdered in broad daylight while simply out for a run in Georgia. Since Ahmaud's murder, lawmakers have failed to end racist Stand Your Ground laws. In fact, they have passed more of them. Ahmaud's killers even attempted to manipulate Georgia’s Stand Your Ground law to claim that their actions were in self-defense.
Stand Your Ground laws encourage individuals to shoot first and ask questions later. When combined with racism and our country’s weak gun laws, like permitless carry, Stand Your Ground laws increase — rather than decrease — gun violence. We’ve watched this deadly mix play out in real-time in recent weeks. In Missouri, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot and nearly killed when he accidentally stopped at the wrong house to pick up his brothers. Now, there is a chance that the gunman will use Missouri’s Stand Your Ground Law to defend his reckless actions. ENOUGH. We must vow to take action to address our country’s deadly mix of weak gun laws and systemic racism. In honor of Ahmaud, please join us by taking action today. |
Episode 225: “The Rising Lethality of the Second Amendment”
Firearms from the mid-1800s look, feel, and shoot much differently than the firearms we have today. Weapons, like the popular AR-15, are much more lethal, able to kill more people in less time than our country’s founders could ever imagine. One could even argue that modern firearms are not descendents of the firearms available at the time the Second Amendment was written, but rather a completely new tool.
Despite this reality, many courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, do not consider lethality or this change in technology when ruling on the constitutionality of firearm regulations. Dr. Jennifer Tucker, associate professor of History and the director of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University, joins us to discuss how the lethality of firearms has increased, how "historically" based legal decisions around firearms have been fundamentally flawed, and why we need to change the way we talk about guns in America.
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