by Drick Boyd | Jul 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
This morning I woke up to the news of a sniper killing five Dallas police officers and injuring several others. The shooting occurred at the end of a peaceful demonstration to protest the police-inflicted deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando...
by Drick Boyd | Dec 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
What do the following incidents have in common? Dec 14, 2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, CT, lone shooter, 20 year white male kills 26 people (20 children & six adults) with a gun purchased legally by the shooter’s mother June 17, 2015 – Emmanuel AME...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.” (Source Unknown) When I heard of the tragic shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg last week, my first response was sadness, followed quickly be a sense of resignation That...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I was about 7 or 8 years old I went to visit my cousins who lived in the Chicago area. They had some guinea pigs who had just had babies. After the babies were born they took the adult guinea pigs out of the cage because as my aunt explained if the adult guinea...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, we witnessed another mass shooting in which 13 people lost their lives, eleven of them unarmed random victims. The shooter, Aaron Alexis, and a police officer were the only armed persons with a sense of purpose, the former going on a shooting spree,...
