Let’s be honest, the federal government does a terrible job preparing fiscally for disasters.
"Terrorist" is not the same as "mass murderer"
The mass shooting in Las Vegas highlights, once again, a nation too willing to put up with gun violence. To the point that we have ritualized the experience: Shock, offers of prayers, crackpot excuses for yet more guns, and in the end, the table remains set for the next one.
"No laws could have prevented the tragedy" and other gun myths, debunked
As was predictable, some of the NRA crowd blames the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, the murdered pastor of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, for the deaths of eight parishioners Wednesday because as a South Carolina state legislator he supported stricter gun control (the original comment by NRA Director Charles L. Cotton seems to have been taken down, but was preserved elsewhere).
In his brief remarks Tuesday, Trump called the Las Vegas shooting “an act of pure evil.”
Richmond, Virginia, is the center of the debate over Confederate monuments: shall they stay, shall they go or can they be altered to tell a more complete story?
The gun control movement in America has been reinvigorated, and at the top of its agenda are bans on assault weapons. “The killers in San Bernardino used military-style assault weapons — weapons of war,” President Obama said Saturday, calling for a ban on these guns. Gun control proponents were also emboldened by the Supreme Court's decision Monday to allow an Illinois ban on assault rifles to stand.
Yet we already know that banning assault weapons won't reduce gun crime or deaths.