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 →
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 →