West County Democrats Monthly Meeting United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 655 300 Weidman Road, Ballwin, MO 63011 http://www.westcountydems.com Monday, September 9, 2019 (always the 2nd Monday of the month) 9 a.m. Refreshments and socializing 9:30 Business meeting and announcements 10:30 Presentation Topic: NRA Read More …
Category: Responsible Gun Ownership
Missouri Versus St. Louis
Last Friday morning I attended the taping of a discussion on violent death in St. Louis. (That discussion airs Monday morning on KMOX on Charlie Brennan’s show.) Harvard Kennedy School of Government fellow Thomas Abt crunched data and developed a plan for Read More …
Monthly Meeting Announcement
West County Democrats Monthly Meeting United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 655 300 Weidman Road, Ballwin, MO 63011 http://www.westcountydems.com Monday, September 9, 2019 (always the 2nd Monday of the month) 9 a.m. Refreshments and socializing 9:30 Business meeting and Read More …
Sadly Familiar
Unfortunately, this is Missouri where guns ownership is a right granted by God and asking for additional money for policing or enhanced probation supervision is a non-starter in the Capitol.
Gun deaths in US rise to highest level in 20 years, data shows
Forty thousand people were killed in shootings last year amid a growing number of suicides involving firearms, CDC reveals
Changing the Dynamic
The wheel is turning in Missouri and, while the divide still seems great, progress was made in the 2018 midterms. We tend to be late adopters of trends that start at the coast and move inland, but change is coming if we stay strong.