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The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

Everyone can agree: better age limits should be established for gun usage

Nicole Zelniker, Staff Writer October 3, 2014

To shoot or not to shoot? That is the question on which we cannot agree. Here’s what we do know: letting a 9-year-old girl shoot an automatic weapon is not a good idea. At a shooting range in Mohave,...

Civil Rights groups descend on Florida, protest unjust ‘stand your ground’ law

Robert Pacheco, Staff Writer March 28, 2014

The verdict in the Trayvon Martin murder case was not the end of a story; it was the beginning of a movement. Since the jury from that case found defendant George Zimmerman innocent, many have derided...

Columbia, Md. mall shooting adds to growing trend

Columbia, Md. mall shooting adds to growing trend

Allison Stalberg, Staff Writer February 7, 2014

2014 began with a not-so-fresh start: a contemporary American trend — mall shootings — continues to grow. A shooting occurred on Jan. 25 at 11:15 a.m. within the Mall of Columbia in Columbia, Md....

Suicide at NASCAR race raises gun control concerns

Sydney Hawkins, Staff Writer April 26, 2013

Gun control. Everyone has an opinion. Who should have guns? What models should be available? Are they allowed at NASCAR events? Forty-two-year-old Kirk Franklin of Saginaw, Texas, shot and killed himself...

Newtown vs. Congress: Preventing the next massacre through gun control

Shelby Smith, Staff Writer April 26, 2013

One gunman. 28 dead. Two injured. Countless loved ones of the victims. One failed piece of gun legislation. Now, an indefinite number of spree killings will not be prevented. Most Americans know...

Access to excess: Assault rifles

Anthony Harrison, Staff Writer February 22, 2013

I am a gun owner. I own a 20-gauge Browning Auto-5 shotgun, a Ruger 10/22 rifle and a Makarov service pistol, and I enjoy hunting and shooting. However, I’ve always found the idea of civilians...

Gun control: Stopping the violence

Josh Barker, Staff Writer February 15, 2013

As a child, I lived in a rural part of Virginia where almost everybody I knew owned a gun. My family was one of the few that didn’t. Guns were a part of life that we had to deal with. I remember...

Latest mass shooting sparks discussion on prevention

Elias Blondeau, Staff Writer November 2, 2012

In the wake of the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting and a shooting at a Milwaukee Sikh Temple, another gunman has damaged and taken the lives of several people. This time, the backdrop was a hair and...

The cost of safety: New York shootings gone awry

Daniel Gaskin, Staff Writer September 7, 2012

Crazed gunman Jeffrey Johnson, 53, killed one person before he was shot to death outside the Empire State Building on 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City in a chaotic gunfight that left nine...

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