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 →
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 →
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 →
I noticed a number of people in this thread who cited a reported statistic about fatherlessness and mass shootings, which is that 26 of the shooters in the 27 deadliest mass shootings in the US grew up fatherless. I’ve written … Continue reading →
A terrorist mass murderer went on a shooting spree in two New Zealand mosques, killing 49 people. He left a lengthy manifesto, and even livestreamed the attack. This event is extremely terrible in human terms. But in terms of firearms … Continue reading →
When I first read the headline of this article—“‘Millennia of human activity’: heatwave reveals lost UK archaeological sites”—I imagined something like a fantasy movie in which some hulking ancient ruin comes heaving out of the ground, astounding the watching crowd. … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Here are links to Part I, Part II, and Part IIIA of the series. I figure that now—in the wake of the Parkland shooting—would be as good time as any to publish the last installment in this series, so … 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 →
[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 →
I thought this subject had been fully aired, but it came up again on a thread yesterday, so I thought I’d address it again very briefly. The question is whether Paddock could have made money playing video poker. The answer … 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 →