Defensible Spaces

I was going to write this week about the power of “thank you,” as it seemed very fitting coming off of Thanksgiving.  But the mass shooting in San Bernardino earlier this week has diverted me.

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According to shootingtracker.com, maintained by “Guns Are Cool” on reddit, San Bernardino was the 355th mass shooting  in the United States this year.  While criminologists have not landed on a universally supported definition of what constitutes a mass shooting, shootingtracker.com borrows from the historic FBI definition (and, therefore, Read more