New Orleans In the wake of the massacre at San Bernardino using military grade assault rifles among other weapons, once again some folks are hoping there will be a movement towards more sensible regulation of these kinds of guns at the least. Others were heartened when the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on …
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Unspeakable Crimes: Delhi, Dakar, and Newtown
Dauphine Island In an editorial in the Times mourning the gruesome circumstances of the death of the 23-year old Delhi woman in a Singapore hospital where she had been taken for treatment, they called it an “unspeakable crime,” which seemed the perfect phrase for so much of what we are living through these days on …
Killing the Tea Party with Guns
New Orleans The New York Times pumped a couple of rounds into the Tea Party in a front page story today. They missed the heart, but they were probably aiming more to cripple, than kill. Despite the palpable anger so clearly motivating a vast national, though embryonic, movement, David Barstow, the reporter on the story …