I’m not going to tell you how to stop gun violence

But I am going to tell you that one way to figure out what must be done is to stop the freeze on gun violence research and let smart people consider what we should be doing. For a beautiful few hours on Twitter last night, Igor Volsky, director of video and contributing editor at ThinkProgress, was following up …

Just read this…

…from Teju Cole, at The New Inquiry.

Goddammit.

While we await the latest heartbreaking information out of San Bernardino, Calif., where today shooters opened fire at a service center for people with disabilities and left 14 dead and at least 17 wounded: This is our 355th mass shooting this year. What will it take, do you think, to get serious about this? We can …

More shootings yesterday, so it’s time for a reminder:

Ten people died at the hand of a  shooter at an Oregon community college, and three more people were dead in Florida after a mass shooting there. That was just yesterday. White Americans are the biggest terrorist threat in this country, according to the New America Foundation. And that has chart has not been updated. But …