Elementary & secondary education today is different from our experience. Kids know a lot about tech & probably chuckle as someone (like me) tries to share a video (like the public service ad (PSA) I hope you see. Kids’ knowledge of tech is cool. Kids are familiar w/PSA’s topic. 1/6

What isn’t cool: kids have to know ways to survive mass shootings. Congrats go to Guy Relford, host of “The Gun Guy” on Indy station WIBC, who advocates gun culture & a view of the 2nd Amendment only advanced relatively recently. PSA shows gun culture in full bloom. 2/6

If more guns = less crime, we live in paradise & Mr Relford should be radiant w/each body count & the gun culture he fosters. Others, like me, believe gun violence won’t end while ppl (wrongly) believe guns prevent more violence than they cause. We can end gun violence. 3/6

Don’t: 1) own a gun 2) allow guests in your home to have guns & 3) listen to WIBC. The “wild” West they ballyhoo is fiction. In Dodge City & Tombstone people could not openly carry guns. People understood that more guns, especially in public & in bars, means more deaths.4/6

Until gun control comes back, Mr Relford should be proud of each mass shooting. Or, hey, how about this? If guns deter crime & deaths from guns, these deaths actually don’t occur! No, Alan Jones learned the tough way that lies carry penalties. One last note: “smalltalk” is back 5/6

again tonight on John Schmitz’s FB show “Mouthwash”! I’ll have some fun talking libraries. I worked on staff at university libraries at Purdue and Northwestern. My views of limits on books are informed & in sharp contrast w/ppl like Micah Beckwith! 6/6