To My Students: I will not carry a gun because the classroom is a sacred space because a gun means danger, not safety because a weapon in class conveys hierarchy and authority, which are antithetical to learning because the idea of discipline through force is rightist ideology forging a worldview that the world is untamed …
1. Gun-owners are more likely to vote Republican than ever before. Source: Social Science Quarterly, quoted in Newsweek. 2. Americans with less education are more likely to vote Republican; Americans with more education are more likely to vote Democratic. Source: Pew Research Center. 3. Republicans consistently vote against gun control/gun safety measures, and consistently vote …
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Cultural Weekly readers will remember Good Guys With Guns — the short film by Jordan Ancel you helped to crowdfund. Jordan has just decided to release the film for free online today in order to spur social impact and action. Watch it here: https://goodguyswithgunsmovie.com/ “In light of the most recent massacre in Texas, just only …
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The proliferation of gun violence in this country is out of control. Filmmaker Jordan Ancel and his team believe they have a responsibility to help change the culture of violence through storytelling. GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS shows how arming every citizen to act on their own to be heroes can go horribly wrong. They’ve started …
As we live in an age of manufactured phantasms, of public hedonism and private fear, it is difficult to determine the impact social networks have on our mental health and our understanding of the world. Let’s not get carried away and start believing the abyss of a Facebook news feed is a Hive-Mind yet, but …
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