Quentisha Mason submitted this video to us sharing her thoughts on why she thinks America is so divided. It’s a cognitive and cultural problem: over simplification. For example, the “government” is not out to get you. Share you views and story with us.

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A week after the Newtown massacre, NRA held a press conference at 10:45am December 21, 2012 inside the Willard Hotel. They had been silent about the massacre all week. Without taking questions, Wayne LaPierre called for armed guards at every school across the nation. Outside the Willard Hotel,

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Virginia resident and pro-gun advocate, Larry Ward, interrupted protesters who gathered on Friday, Dec 21, 2012 to deliver a petition with 200,000 signatures to the NRA during its first press conference since the Newtown massacre. During the press conference, the NRA called for armed guards at

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I used to have it all, and by “all” I mean a house, because that is what I don’t have now. I also have a law degree, a master’s, and an Ivy League undergraduate degree, fluency in several languages, a personality that makes it easy for me to get along with people (and thus get […]

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Yes, actually, it is the guns. And yes, simultaneously it is mental illness. Yes, it is television. And yes, it is the movies and the music and the games. Yes, it is desensitization. Yes, it is the media. Yes, it is money.Yes, it is the times.Yes, it is technology.Yes, it is the power of

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We have to make a decision as a culture and as a collection of human beings. With our fancy phones, the world media and Internet, we have developed a means of disseminating information with immediacy only imagined before. We have created a platform where very real monsters, warped people who

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On the day before Thanksgiving in 1996 while walking home from school, my then 7-year-old daughter was stopped by a 31-year-old man. He opened the car door and forcibly pulled the child inside. He kidnapped her. This was near three in the afternoon. As he sped off, my oldest daughter ran home

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I am a retired teacher and the mass shooting in Newtown CT today hit me very hard. My prior career was as a Navy Aircrewman and at times while a taught I felt I was safer in the air than in a school. I had a hard time watching the news reports and finally I […]

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Dear friends who can’t tolerate anyone bringing up gun control: You’re not going to intimidate me with your !!!!s, ????s, WORDS IN ALL CAPS, namecalling, and threats to unfriend. I am going to speak my mind regardless of your protestations. I just wish you loved the First Amendment

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The 2012 US election will be remembered as one of the polarized in modern times. The rhetoric was fiery and the emotions were high, but just how divided are we really? Listen to some of Virginia voters we met the day before the election at the Romney rally held at George

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