Charleston Currents – gun control

NEW for 5/11: Parks reopening; More absentee voting; #MuseumWeek

IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: County parks resume operations, more openings ahead
COMMENTARY, Brack: State needs to promote more absentee voting
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Titan Termite & Pest Control
NEWS BRIEFS: State’s public health agency overwhelmed, underfunded
FEEDBACK: On getting back to work and school
MYSTERY PHOTO: Maybe our most difficult mystery yet
CALENDAR: Charleston #MuseumWeek: 7 days, 7 themes, 7 hashtags
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Havilah Babcock

by Charleston Currents · 05/11/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

BRACK: Make our schools safer with real gun reform

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | This time, it feels like something about guns is going to happen. After the Parkland slaughter of 17 students and teachers, inaction doesn’t seem to be a viable automatic political reflex for mass gun violence.

Maybe the nation has reached a tipping point, thanks to thousands of Florida students who marched on the state’s capital to pressure lawmakers to make common-sense reforms to curb the gun violence.

“The times have clearly changed,” University of South Florida political science professor Susan MacManus told a Tallahassee newspaper. “And the activism of the students and their parents and grandparents and everyone else has made this a bigger issue and a much more politically impactful issue. I think it has ramifications for any partisan race from the top of the ticket down to local races.”

by Andy Brack · 02/26/2018 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views

COMMENTARY, Brack: Demand real gun control now

y Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Let me be crystal clear: It is time for real gun control.

No more pussyfooting around the edges. No more talk and blather as more people are killed in mass shootings in churches, schools, nightclubs and music festivals.

Real. Gun. Control.

Let me also be clear: This does not mean the government is going to take away your guns. Remember when President Obama got elected president and the nutcases shouted and screamed that he would take away guns? Did he? No. Instead, a vocal sub-minority of zealots pitched an NRA-led fit to make people believe authorities would take away their guns. And the violence continued.

by Andy Brack · 10/09/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

LETTERS: On state’s new license plate, gun control

Letters for Dec. 28, 2015, issue, include this from Elizabeth Bagby of Charleston: “Overall, I like the new plate with the Anglicized motto. I liked the colors of the previous one better but color costs more, I suppose. This is the fifth plate in +/- 15 years. Why does it keep changing? The single sticker will be nice.”

by Charleston Currents · 12/28/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

BRACK: Open the door of the race closet

By Andy Brack | Most South Carolinians don’t know a lot of out-of-the-closet, vociferous racists. They’re probably around, just like they have been since two people who didn’t look like each other first met. But in our society — here and in other states — they generally live on the fringes.

by Andy Brack · 06/22/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

"Mother" Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, S.C.

BRACK: Charleston shooting causes sadness, shock, anger, frustration

CHARLESTON, S.C., June 18, 2015 — As I headed to bed Wednesday night, a white gunman shot and killed nine people in an historic black church in the center of town just four blocks from where I used to live. Unaware of the evil, sleep came quickly.

But in the wee hours, the ping of a text from an Australian colleague woke me. I didn’t want to read it and tried to go back to sleep. But after tossing and turning, I read the text, only to learn the heart-wrenching news about what was going on a few miles away. I was dazed. Several instant reactions percolated and struggled to the surface:

by Andy Brack · 06/18/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views