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BRACK: Instituting a gun buy-back program can reduce the shootings

BRACK: Instituting a gun buy-back program can reduce the shootings

By Elliott Brack | One thing for certain: our state, and in particular Metro Atlanta, must step forward with bold measures to reduce the all-too-often shootings. To do nothing is for our community to suffer more.

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NEW for 5/11: GGC graduations; EEB thoughts; Gun violence

NEW for 5/11: GGC graduations; EEB thoughts; Gun violence

Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: GGC graduations this week to include posthumous degree 
EEB PERSPECTIVE: More on Samuel Spencer, Jon Ossoff, NPR and the late Eli Broad
ANOTHER VIEW: America today is caught in a plague of gun violence      
SPOTLIGHT: Infinite Energy Center
FEEDBACK: Suggests obvious possibility of Spencer statue location
UPCOMING: Artistic crickets soon will be popping up around Duluth
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville kicks off third summer internship program 
RECOMMENDED: Out Of Many, One. By George W. Bush
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Here’s the first list of seven natural wonders of Georgia 
MYSTERY PHOTO: This time the Mystery Photo just might be a cream puff for many
LAGNIAPPE: Gorgeous Iris showing off its deep blue coloring
CALENDAR: Be careful. A burn ban is now in force throughout Georgia 

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by · May 11, 2021 · Full issues
Artwork in Malmo, Sweden, via Unsplash.

BRACK: Come together, Georgia, to stop these senseless shootings

By Elliott Brack  |  The senseless shooting rampage that killed eight Georgians this week tears at your very being. It horrifies us. Can’t we as a people do better than that?

It seems  that shootings in America, and now in Georgia, are beginning to be routinely expected. Each week gives new accounts: 

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by · March 19, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
12/8: Sword drill, gun rampage legislation, past haven

12/8: Sword drill, gun rampage legislation, past haven

Click here to see our latest full edition. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Old Times and Baptist Sword Drill

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gun Rampage Legislation Can Start at the Local Level

ANOTHER VIEW: Gwinnett Was Once Haven for Dumping of Atlanta Bodies

FEEDBACK: More on Brokered Convention, TV Antennas and Americans Being Fearful

UPCOMING: Duluth Seeking Members of Citizen’s Budget Review Commission

NOTABLE: First Student at PCOM Gets Award Fund

RECOMMENDED READ: Gamble by Felix Francis

GEORGIA TIDBIT: First American College Sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, Founded at Wesleyan

TODAY’S QUOTE: Why You Should Not Tell People Your Problems

MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Recognize Lodge at National Park

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by · December 8, 2015 · Full issues
BRACK: Gun rampage legislation can start at the local level

BRACK: Gun rampage legislation can start at the local level

By Elliott Brack | Researchers know that getting to the root of a problem is the best way to solve it.

Jonas Salk recognized his vaccine immunizing youth would solve polio. It was a scourge in the days before 1955 when parents were fearful of allowing their children in public swimming pools. Now polio is approaching eradication world-wide.

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by · December 8, 2015 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK:  Why doesn’t this country do something to curb gun violence?

BRACK: Why doesn’t this country do something to curb gun violence?

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Guns were the cause of two recent tragedies in the South, in Chattanooga this week, and recently in Charleston, S.C. You wonder where it will happen next. For it will.

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