The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

The Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada may soon implement a more comprehensive sex education program, which lawmakers have been trying to accomplish for a number of years. As reported by Tara Culp-Ressler of ThinkProgress , the following has already taken place, which has left some parents feeling uneasy about the possible change: "In order to prepare for that potential policy change, school district officials began considering adopting some of the guidelines laid out in the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education , a model curriculum published by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). For over five decades, that group has helped schools develop sex ed classes that include age-appropriate information about anatomy, birth control, sexually transmitted infections, gender identity, and healthy relationships." As I already mentioned, this has left some parents feeling uneasy. At a Board of Trustees meeting in...

In what is being hailed as the most comprehensive study on the topic, Michael Siegel, Craig S. Ross, and Charles King III concluded the following when they looked at the relationship between gun ownership and firearm homicide rates in the U.S. from the years of 1981 to 2010: "We observed a robust correlation between higher levels of gun ownership and higher firearm homicide rates. Although we could not determine causation, we found that states with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides." Here we have yet another study which suggests that if we want to save lives, Congress should start passing stricter gun laws. How many more lives must be lost before Congress finally starts taking these lives and studies seriously enough to do something about it? "A gun doesn't shoot someone; a person does." No, a person with a gun shoots someone. The next time the NRA sees a person's finger shooti...