Sunday, October 4, 2015

994 mass shootings in 1,004 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like

"The Oregon school shooting is evidence that the US response to gun violence ‘has become routine’, Barack Obama says. The data compiled by the crowd-sourced site Mass Shooting Tracker reveals an even more shocking human toll: there is a mass shooting – defined as four or more people shot in one incident – nearly every day"

Read more in the Guardian. This is beyond depressing. Why are we funding so many anti-terrorism campaigns when gun violence is clearly killing more Americans every day?

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .