No guest this time. Again, this entire episode is devoted to school shootings; this time the focus is on the teen activists of Stoneman Douglas and the NRA’s responses to them.
Notes on Episode 16:
Month: February 2018
Episode 15: School Shootings, Part 1
No guest this time. The entire episode is devoted to discussing the four things I perceive as the main contributing factors to the post-Columbine spate of school shootings:
- Easy access to guns.
- Untreated mental illnesses (and the stigmas attached to them).
- Internet subcultures that cheer on would-be murderers.
- Aggrieved entitlement.
Notes on Episode 15:
- Gallup: Americans widely support tighter restrictions on gun sales
- Politifact: 90% of Americans support universal background checks
- Politifact: What we know about mass shootings
- American Mental Health Counselors: Myths and evidence-based facts about gun violence and mental illness
- NC State research: Mentally ill more likely to be victims, not perpetrators, of violence
- MSNBC “The Cycle” on aggrieved entitlement
- The Guardian interviews Michael Kimmel on aggrieved entitlement
Episode 14: Attica Scott
The hour begins with another attempt to squash SCALA’s strawman depiction of their critics as indifferent to education issues.
Notes on Episode 14 & Attica Scott:
- Attica Scott on Twitter
- Attica Scott on Facebook
- Official Kentucky state legislature page
- Attica Scott on Billtrack50 legislation tracking site
- David Jones Sr in Courier Journal
- David Jones Sr in Insider Louisville
- Kelly Downard: SCALA critics are just jealous
Episode 13: Gay Adelmann
The entire hour covers the ongoing attempt to delegitimize and defund public schools here in Louisville, Kentucky.
Notes on Episode 13 & Gay Adelmann:
- Gay’s Twitter account
- Dear JCPS
- Save Our Schools KY
- Insider Louisville: By invitation only: Meet Louisville’s power brokers
- Courier Journal: Denying secrecy, SCALA releases members’ names
- Insider Louisville: SCALA’s lack of diversity worries education, civic leaders
