West Virginia already has some of the best gun laws east of the Mississippi, with Constitutional Carry on the books since 2016 and a legislature that laughs at the idea of banning guns in the name of public safety. In fact, lawmakers in the state are pushing several bills this session that would allow for legal gun owners to carry on college campuses, which is currently forbidden.
This week West Virginia University president Gordon Gee penned a letter to the “campus community” warning of the supposed dangers of campus carry and sharing what he wrote to the state Senate in opposition to the legislation.
Collaborating for change
The debut concert of the Racial Justice Concert Series brings together Baltimore Ceasefire 365 and the Baltimore Boom Bap Society By Bret McCabe / Published March 10, 2021
About every three months since August 2017, the Baltimore Ceasefire 365 movement has asked city residents to go 72 hours without any murders or acts of violence. These weekends are emotionally potent calls to action, and they work. A 2020 study published in the
American Journal of Public Health showed an average 52% drop in shootings over Ceasefire weekends. Those quarterly Ceasefires are the result of grassroot organizers consistently knocking on doors and collaborating with community members year-round the kinds of face-to-face interactions that the coronavirus pandemic has prevented. COVID-19, unfortunately, has not lessened our experience with murder but what it has done is exposed the root causes of murder, says Ellen Gee, one of the