Kelly Salasin

Category: on guns

  • Soul of a Nation

    I’m struck by these words posted by friend after friend: “I feel afraid.” These are words typed by strong, engaged, voiced women. For whom the latest atrocity was personal. Why don’t I feel afraid? “Salasin” is Russian Jew, but I was born blonde with green eyes, more like my Irish and English grandmothers than my…

  • Guns are Like Sarah Palin

    Lately gun accidents have become so (sadly) absurd and (outlandishly) alarming that they remind me of Sarah Palin. In 2008, I received a group email entitled: Women Against Sarah Palin. Though I agreed with the expressed sentiment that Mrs. Palin was the wrong choice for the White House, particularly for women, I publically declined to…