July 21, 2016
Black Therapist Shot By Miami Police While Lying On Ground, Hands In The Air
On Monday there was another instance of a police officer shooting an unarmed black man, this time in Miami.
July 21, 2016
On Monday there was another instance of a police officer shooting an unarmed black man, this time in Miami.
June 19, 2015
The murder of nine innocent people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina exposes the America-born con that gun ownership is the thing that protects individual liberty. If only you could ask one of the dead how free they now feel. And if only there were more bullets flying in that church, might we finally realize America has reached its finest form of freedom.
February 14, 2015
As Bill Maher said on Real Time, there is something systemically wrong with policing in this country.
August 21, 2014
I feel it’s necessary to focus this blog post specifically on the police officer who killed an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri almost two weeks ago.
September 20, 2013
So what do Edward Snowden the NSA leaker, and Aaron Alexis the Navy Yard shooter, have in common? — They both had background reviews done by the same government contractor. Why does this matter? — It doesn’t. But don’t tell that to Senator Claire McCaskill. “From Edward Snowden to Aaron Alexis, what’s emerging is a pattern of failure on the part of this company, and a failure of this entire system, that risks nothing less than our national security and the lives of Americans,” said McCaskill. She went on to say:
September 16, 2013
EDIT: Early reports indicated an AR-15 was involved in the Navy Yard shooting. That turns out to be false, but it hardly changes anything. If Aaron Alexis was able to so easily kill 12 people without an AR-15, I don’t want to think what would have happened had he used an assault rifle (yes, that’s what it is). The amount of carnage possible even with less potent weapons lends even greater support to banning assault style weapons.
May 13, 2013
In case you missed it, and it’s possible you did since the media is treating this as just another day in America, well, because it is:
December 14, 2012
It is another day in America, and that means another violent mass shooting event — this time at an elementary school in Connecticut. Reports are sketchy at this point, but NBC News is reporting 26 dead including 18 children, but these numbers are likely to change.
August 6, 2012
Does Pat Robertson have a “wheel of causation” that he spins every time there’s a tragedy? This time the wheel landed on “atheists,” which probably happens quite often and with divine intervention no less.
July 21, 2012
Every time one of these mass-shooting, mass-murder events happens in the United States we see headlines like “Americans in shock,” and descriptive words like horror and terror, but do you see a problem here? Did you notice that I started this article by saying “every time,” which indicates this is not a rare event. The fact is, while overall crime statistics are at 20 (even 30) year lows in many categories (including murder) we still have mass-shooting events occurring with regular frequency. Each one of us has essentially come to expect that these mass-shooting events are going to happen regularly. So is there anything shocking about it?