I had little new to say yesterday regarding the Newtown shooting, including my last statement, which was that we should keep guns out of the hands of crazy people. Not surprisingly, there is a ton of discussion going on now about the gun side of the equation. But not much is being said about the … Continue reading Newtown 2 – The Mental Health Side of the Coin
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Newtown
I hadn’t planned to write about this, but a friend asked me to, so I will. As a college English major, I learned about the difference between tragedy, in which some noble flaw works against the protagonist, and disaster, where no such flaw exists and events are simply horrific. This is disaster, unmitigated and writ … Continue reading Newtown
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