The News of the Weird weekly newsprint feature is going strong. There are a number of items bearing directly on our favorite subjects. One of the best, because it's among the worst:
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw150104.html
Even though one state requires
400 hours' training just to become a professional manicurist, for
instance, most states do not demand nearly such effort to become armed
security guards, according to a CNN/Center for Investigative Reporting
analysis released in December. Fifteen states require no firearms
training at all; 46 ignore mental health status; nine do not check the
FBI's criminal background database; and 27 states fail to ascertain
whether an applicant is banned by federal law from even carrying a gun.
(After an ugly incident in Arizona in which a juvenile gun offender was
hired as a guard, the state added a box on its form for applicants to
"self-report" the federal ban -- but still refuses to use the FBI
database.) [CNN, 12-10-2014]
Visit the site often -- since it isn't updated every single week, I check in every month or so. Why am I writing this column and sharing with you this specific information? So you can redeploy it among your friends, family, co-workers, readers et al.
You say you don't have readers, i.e. via a blog, column or whatever? Perhaps you should start one or more, write letters to editors etc. Self-expression is physically and mentally good for you. Why, even scientists have found it so!
Contact your local non-daily newspaper and ask if they'd accept a month's worth of columns from you. What do you have to lose?
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