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Reaction to Florida School Shooting

By Jim Bauman December 31, 2022Opinions and Editorials2nd Amendment, Gun control, School shootings, WV gun laws

In 2018, the WV legislature was eager to loosen gun laws in college campuses, all but ignoring the increasing number of gun shootings in schools, the latest at that time being the Parkland school shooting in Florida. These legislators were advocating for guns over children's safety.

Realigning the Middle

By Jim Bauman December 31, 2022Opinions and EditorialsConservatism, Identify politics, Polarization, Political discourse, Progressivism

This column was a reaction piece to the nastiness of political discourse, but also a defense of so-called identify politics when the current political atmosphere is so disregarding of the rights and welfare of certain groups.