Preventing firearms violence
By Van Rose
“I came to a place where three roads meet and was confronted by a man in a carriage, attended by troops. … He struck me, full on the head, with his three-pronged stick, the kind used to prod horses. I whacked him savagely with my staff and knocked him out of his carriage. He fell flat on the road. The others attacked me, of course, and I killed them every one.”
– “Oedipus Rex,” Sophocles
Thus, Oedipus explained why he killed his father. When I taught that play, I asked my students what prompted Oedipus to kill.
Rose is a retired community college teacher who lives in Big Stone Gap.
February 12, 2013 - 8:10 AM
I killed my father
I married my mother
We had three sons
They are my brothers.
Oedipus Rex in a nutshell. — Krutz
Hmmm….looks like something needs to be done about staff violence.
BAN STAFFS!
I agree Van Rose, we do need to study why gun violence is prevalent and what if anything can be done to change that trajectory. If guns are the great defender of our safety, that will be borne out in the research and the arguments for gun control will have to be silent in the face of the statistics that prove the efficacy if not the downright importance of the right to bear arms, any arms they like.