Charleston Currents – gun violence

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

BRACK: More gun violence prompts reprint of 2016 column

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | After the Orlando shootings, my wife wrote a letter to several newspaper editors that made me think.

She boiled all of the back and forth about escalating gun violence in America into a simple, salient point that many seem to have missed: It’s become an issue of national security.

The glut of guns solely made for killing people — handguns and assault rifles — is changing America into a country where fearful people feel they need more and bigger guns to protect themselves. They respond to patronizing rhetoric from groups like the National Rifle Association who taunt that the federal government is going to take away people’s guns. Throughout the seven years of President Obama’s term, we’ve heard such chants time and time again, yet Obama hasn’t taken away guns.

by Andy Brack · 10/02/2017 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views

12/14, full issue: Kindred Kids, gun sense, shopping tips

In the Dec. 14, 2015, issue of Charleston Currents:

https://charlestoncurrents.com/2015/12/dec14-issue/
PHOTO: Grand tree off the chopping block for now
FOCUS: Promoting friendship and understanding
BRACK: Let’s have some real gun sense in S.C.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Morris Financial Concepts, Inc.
GOOD NEWS: Holiday shopping tips, more
FEEDBACK: Immigration is a federal issue
CALENDAR, Dec. 14+: From a holiday train to a holiday show
REVIEW: Mr. Mercedes, by Stephen King
MYSTERY: The clue is that it’s in Charleston
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: The New Deal, part 2

by Charleston Currents · 12/14/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

BRACK: Let’s have some real gun sense in S.C.

By Andy Brack | Somewhere recently on Facebook, I came across a cartoon that showed a guy sitting on a beach enjoying a drink. The caption read something like, “Another sunny day on the beach in Australia without an outbreak of gun violence.”

The same can’t be said for America. An average of 90 people a day die somehow in the United States because of a guns. In the 35 years since musician John Lennon was shot five times in the back by a man with a revolver, more than 1.1 million Americans have died because of guns.

by Andy Brack · 12/14/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views