gun violence

Marches for stricter gun laws happened all across Michigan and the U.S. today.Thousands of people gathered in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint, and several…

Thousands of students in Michigan walked out of their classrooms last week to protest gun violence. They don’t want guns in schools, and they especially…

Michigan’s retirement system has sold off the last of its holdings related to the gun industry.The State of Michigan Retirement systems (SMRS) recently…

Gun laws across the country are under the microscope at state capitols. And Michigan is no exception. But the reality is, we’re not seeing a re-thinking…

There was a punk rock band called The Dead Milkmen that had a fun little run of popularity in the late 1980s. They were goofy and sardonic and…

It’s been five days since the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Florida; the 17 dead are being buried, and the story is easing out of the headlines.This…

Someday, a shooter will walk into a school, probably a suburban school, somewhere in Michigan, and blow teachers and students away, most likely with a…

Some Grand Rapids community members want the city to adopt a national violence prevention program.Cure Violence is a program used to combat gun violence…

Several listeners wrote to me after yesterday’s shooting in Texas to ask if I was going to talk about it today. I had no intention of doing so.Long ago,…

One year ago today, Kalamazoo found itself in the cross hairs of gun violence. Jason Dalton is charged with the shooting spree that left six people dead…