Seventeen veterans die by suicide every day. Twelve of those 17 are from a self-inflicted firearm injury. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says those numbers underscore the agency’s continued obligation and commitment to reduce self-harm by its members. But on Tuesday, the U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs was focused on H.R. 705, the […]
About the Second Amendment: I have questions. I cannot wrap my lizard-sized brain around the notion that the reason for people to keep and own guns is to protect against tyranny. Spare me the historical discourses about the establishment of the Second Amendment, because I realize a bunch of a rag-tag colonists rose up against […]
