Mark Maynard | gun reform

School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”

By Mark | May 22, 2018

I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity and weaponized insecurity, where women, having been debased to the point of no longer being considered human, are seen merely as instruments […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alek Minassian, Alex Azar, anti-abortion, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Betsy DeVos, blood money, CDC, coined phrases, Dan Patrick, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Donald Trump, doors, enforced monogamy, Florida, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, high capacity magazines, hollow promises, incels, insecurity, Intellectual Dark Web, involuntary celibates, Jeff Sessions, Jordan Peterson, Kirstjen Nielsen, Marco Rubio, masculine spirit, mass shootings, misogyny, National Rifle Association, NRA, Parkland, Paul Gosar, pro-life, Santa Fe, school safety, school shooting, sex, sexism, sexual marketplace, spurned advances, Ted Cruz, Texas, The Handmaid's Tale, the masculine spirit, thoughts and prayers, Toronto, toxic masculinity, violence, weaponized insecurity | 60 Comments

Betsy DeVos v. Dwayne Wade

By Mark | March 7, 2018

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which shut down in the immediate aftermath of last month’s mass shooting that left 17 students and teachers dead, recently reopened. And, today, there was news that the students had received two distinguished guests, one of whom talked with them at length about their experiences, and the other, who, refusing […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Aly Sheehy, arming teachers, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Carly Novell, Chicago, DeVos Watch, dismantling of public education, Dwyane Wade, Elizabeth Warren, Florida, gun violence, Housing and Urban Development, HUD, Joaquin Oliver, Katherine Clark, Laura Ingraham, LeBron James, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, mass shootings, NRA, Parkland, public education, racism, religious extremism, Republican lies, student activism, student debt, threats to public education | 9 Comments

The new, young, and hopefully-more-effective face of American gun reform

By Mark | February 19, 2018

Quite a bit has happened over the past few days, since we first learned of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead. While it doesn’t look as though the 19 year old killer had connections to a white nationalist hate group, as was first reported, it […]