Leah Libresco, who used to write for the statistics site FiveThirtyEight (headed by Nate Silver), describes how the more she studied—in the mathematical, statistical sense—about gun-inflicted deaths and gun control, the more she changed her mind on the subject: Before … Continue reading →
[Part I can be found here.] One of the strangest mass murderers in history was Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter of 1966. It was a big big story and a profound shock at the time, and those of us … Continue reading →
Yesterday I advanced a theory about the grandiose and psychopathic motives of mass murderer Stephen Paddock. As evidence for my contention that he didn’t much care what open-air crowd he fired into and from which high-rise hotel, I cited the … Continue reading →
So far, I’m with this guy on the question of a bump stock ban: …as much as it pains me to say it and with full knowledge of the potential implications for a slippery slope, I think we need to … Continue reading →
First let me address the general topic of the conspiracy theories that have been flying around ever since the Las Vegas killings. I think that in a way the talk is understandable. After all, nature abhors a vacuum, and at … Continue reading →
And why should we care? After all, there’s a very good argument to make for not giving shooters such as Paddock the attention they probably craved in life. But there’s also a desire to make sense out of something so … Continue reading →
The Daily Caller reports on the following heartwarming thought expressed in a Facebook conversation: A top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold, said she “is not even sympathetic” for the victims of the shooting at a country music festival at … Continue reading →
Terrible terrible news: A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 400 … Continue reading →
This is sad, although it may offer Hernandez’s family mild comfort and some evidence that might help them win a lawsuit against the NFL: Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star who took his life while serving a murder sentence in … Continue reading →
Although the program is thirteen years old, I only recently discovered the TV show “The First 48,” a documentary series that follows crimes (usually homicides) in various US cities by filming police as they put a case together piece by … Continue reading →
I’ve been meaning to write a big and very comprehensive post on North Korea, but I’ve been putting it off. I have a rough draft, but it’s very rough and I cannot bring myself to work on it today. The … Continue reading →
Two armed robbers chose the wrong Taco Bell to hold up: An armed robber shot and killed by three Taco Bell employees early Wednesday is identified as De’Carlo Jackson. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner released the 24-year-old man’s identity on … Continue reading →