…and still not especially clear. I’ve noticed, also, that many people who are following the story – be they newscasters or pundits or commenters on blogs – keep getting the details mixed up and either inferring things that weren’t said … Continue reading →
How does Israel protect against school shootings?: Israel could not prevent attacks if its efforts were based solely on armed security guards at each school, he said. Israel “invests heavily in monitoring profiles of people,” Hazony continued. It has a … Continue reading →
This is something I previously had suspected as a possibility – that by the time police got to the scene at Uvalde and entered the school building, and then got to the barricaded classroom, they thought the shooting of children … Continue reading →
From that same Daily Mail article I wrote about in the post below this one – the article contains a lot of extra information, including the following about Ramos’ parents’ police records: Ramos is the son of Reyes and Salvador … Continue reading →
Here’s the story as it now stands. I caution everyone to ask questions, though, before jumping to conclusions. For example: Video emerging online from Tuesday’s schoolchildren massacre in Uvalde, Texas shows local police more concerned with stopping parents than stopping … Continue reading →
This is absolutely heartbreaking – photos and short bios of the teachers and children who were killed in Uvalde. People who kill random children are not just homicidally inclined, it’s a particular type of sadistic vengeance, and the target of … Continue reading →
(1) Commenter “cb” has a good question: where did Ramos get the money for the guns? They wouldn’t be cheap. (2) “cb” also wonders whether this story from 2018 might have involved Ramos. Strangely enough, it’s written by someone whose … Continue reading →
It is depressing in so many many ways. First and foremost, there are the victims, now listed as 19 children and 2 adults. The cold-blooded killing of children is evil personified, and most human beings are especially revolted and outraged … Continue reading →
There has been another school shooting, this time in the town of Uvalde, Texas. Fourteen precious and innocent elementary school children and one teacher are dead. The shooter was named Salvatore Romas (or probably Ramos) and was apparently killed by … Continue reading →
A lot of people are writing about this Andrew C. McCarthy article in which he reports the following: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court after the current term ends in a few … Continue reading →
What is there to say anymore about a racist murder such as this most recent one, in a Buffalo supermarket – hasn’t it all been said before, so many times? I’ll say this: that each such murder is an outrage … Continue reading →
Poor innocent Russia, threatened on all sides by enemies while minding its own peaceful business, wants everyone in the world to know it’s prepared and ready: Russia announced on Wednesday it had successfully launched a new missile that it said … Continue reading →