I missed this news when it happened, about a month ago: A nuclear disarmament group has won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb. As nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North … Continue reading →
What state of mind allows a person to purposely target babies for killing, up close and personal? I ask the question because of reports that the Texas church attacker did exactly that: The gunman who killed 26 people at a … Continue reading →
The question of how the Texas church killer purchased his guns is now answered. There was a failure to report his previous offense by the organization tasked with doing so, the Air Force: A day after a gunman massacred parishioners … Continue reading →
In today’s previous post, I began to tackle the question of whether the parishioners in the Texas church where yesterday’s mass murder took place were banned from carrying guns. In it I quoted the following rules in Texas: Churches in … Continue reading →
More news is coming out today on the Texas church shooting, and as often is the case the British papers seem to have more details. We still don’t know the motive, but there are reports that the attacker was an … Continue reading →
This is still a breaking story, and I imagine we’ll learn much more tomorrow, but an especially vicious and deadly shooting has occurred in a Texas church: An armor-clad gunman opened fire inside a rural Texas church on Sunday, killing … Continue reading →
I had a doctor’s appointment the other day, and as I arrived I noticed a huge sign on the door announcing that I was entering a gun-free zone. As I sat in my chair waiting, I pondered—not for the first … Continue reading →
In the aftermath of the New York terrorist attack, there are two companies that must be especially unhappy about this particular attack: Uber (the perp had been an Uber driver) and Home Depot (the truck was rented there and had … Continue reading →
[Part I and Part II.] When I first read about the Las Vegas concert shooting it struck me almost immediately that the mass murder it most resembled was Columbine. And yet I’ve been surprised that almost no one else I’ve … Continue reading →
This should come as no surprise. Paddock was no dummy: Paddock is believed to have removed the hard drive before fatally shooting himself, and the missing device has not yet been recovered, sources told ABC News. Investigators digging into Paddock’s … Continue reading →
This news sure isn’t going to engender a lot of trust in the police’s competence and/or veracity: The gunman in the Las Vegas massacre first shot a hotel security officer about six minutes before opening fire on an outdoor concert, … Continue reading →
A little over a month ago, in the heat of the war against statues, New York’s Mayor de Blasio expressed the thought that perhaps an explanatory note might be helpful in dealing with the dreadful conundrum represented by the offending … Continue reading →