Michael Shank

Gun con­trol is only one part of a larg­er prob­lem that Amer­i­ca is fac­ing.

Hun­dreds of bil­lions of tax­pay­er dol­lars spent on bunker-bust­ing bombs is mon­ey wast­ed on a su­per­flu­ous po­lit­i­cal game.

If the US wants to be a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic bea­con on the hill, it should build the bea­con fair­ly and make sure it shines on all.

High­ly “di­verse neigh­bour­hoods” are ac­tu­al­ly rare – African Amer­i­cans re­main con­cen­trat­ed in seg­re­gat­ed neigh­bour­hoods.

Storms are be­com­ing more se­vere and it is at­trib­ut­able to “our warm­ing cli­mate and seas and our melt­ing ice caps”.

In forc­ing the DC Metro to take an ad buy, we have crossed the line of lib­er­ty – we are no longer de­fend­ing free speech.

We should be giv­ing more con­sid­er­a­tion to three ma­jor se­cu­ri­ty fron­tiers: Re­li­gious, food and cli­mate se­cu­ri­ty.

The pol­i­cy pre­scrip­tions of the Re­pub­li­cans’ vice-pres­i­den­tial pick would hurt the ma­jor­i­ty of Amer­i­cans.

The US needs more strin­gent back­ground checks, more data on guns, an as­sault weapons ban – and more so­cial cap­i­tal.

The lat­est mass shoot­ing in the US must pro­voke a de­bate that en­com­pass­es the so­cio-eco­nom­ic health of the na­tion.