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Observer Editorial Board | Friday, February 24, 2023
Last Monday, three students were killed and another five were injured at a shooting at Michigan State University, a community just two and a half hours away from our own. Students on the East Lansing campus were told to return to classes a week later. The Editorial Board at the MSU State News said no,
Show Some Skin | Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Duncan, Oklahoma Nov. 18, 2019 Three dead Fresno, California Nov. 17, 2019 Six injured Four dead San Diego, California Nov. 16, 2019 One injured Five dead Santa Clarita, California Nov.14, 2019 Three injured Two dead In the past four days, 16 people have been shot and killed. In the past 11 months, that number grows to
Blake Ziegler | Friday, September 6, 2019
In wake of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, Americans are reminded of a grim cycle: a shooting occurs, social media responds, no action is taken. Angered by these events, individuals often criticize the infamous, yet well-intentioned, phrase “thoughts and prayers”. As social media floods with meaningless arguments and shouting matches, a common criticism
Observer Staff Report | Monday, October 29, 2018
University President Fr. John Jenkins released a statement Sunday offering his sympathies to those impacted by the Tree of Life Congregation shooting in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning. “On behalf of the University of Notre Dame, I extend my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the shooting victims at Tree of Life Synagogue in
Eddie Damstra | Thursday, March 1, 2018
Relative to the rest of the industrialized world, the United States is a rather violent place. The Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was yet another example of this incredibly sad reality. Both mass shootings and gang violence are far too common in the United States. The explanation for these high rates of violence is multi-faceted
Show Some Skin | Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Last week, in the aftermath of the horrific attack in a Texan church, President Trump steered discussion from gun control by saying, “Mental health is your problem here.” After the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, Paul Ryan argued, “The common theme with these types of shootings is mental illness.” In 2012, following the mass shooting at
Sarah Cate Baker | Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Yet another mass shooting has rocked the United States. Or should I say “rocked” — was anyone really surprised when reports of multiple people killed by a lone gunman started filing in? And when multiple people turned into 26, and the gunman into ex-military with a shady history, and the gun into an AR-15 —
Gary Caruso | Friday, December 4, 2015
A current Notre Dame senior administrator’s spouse — a fundamentally conservative Catholic who unquestionably follows every entrenched exclusionary edict espoused by the likes of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan — several years ago told me to leave Catholicism if I did not like it. To this day it angers me to recollect that moment of