mass shootings

Mainstream media and gun control advocates are ignoring this mass shooting because it does not fit its narrative of blaming lone nut white supremacists and the NRA for gun violence, in order to disarm the working class.

Mass shootings prompt simple explanations of the gunman’s motivation. At Columbine High School in Colorado, the killers supposedly snapped after being bullied. The guy who shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, was wild-eyed, carrot-topped nuts. After a massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, an anti-immigrant manifesto posted online pointed to right-wing politics. Simple mental illness — if there is such a thing — appears to be the culprit in Dayton, Ohio — also misogyny. But the Dayton shooter’s Twitter feed indicates he liked Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. So right-wing medi

With each new mass shooting to hit the Heartland, calls reverberate across sections of the political spectrum for major infringements to be placed on gun ownership – in contravention of the US Constitution.

Phil Rockstroh muses on how the impulse to possess an unlimited number of firearms fits into the late-imperium scheme of things.  By Phil Rockstroh  The U.S.  is less of a nation than a collective, psychotic episode. Within day-to-day life in…Read more →

A spokesman for the Allen police said there is no record of such a call and he wasn’t aware of such a call.

As a series of recent mass shootings have brought renewed demands for the U.S. government to do something to address the spike in “lone wolf” violence, the Trump administration’s decision to blame internet privacy, controversial websites like 8chan, and social media for the shootings has raised eyebrows from across the political spectrum, particularly in light of claims that Trump’s recent rhetoric about immigrants may have incited some of the shooters.

In a nation afflicted by fads, crazes, manias and rages, mass murder is the jackpot for nihilists, writes James Howard Kunstler. By James Howard Kunstler Clusterfuck Nation In a nation afflicted by fads, crazes, manias and rages, mass murder is…Read more →

Mass shootings by white supremacists should not be exploited to further militarize the police and lose more civil liberties, says Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com Two mass shootings have rocked the United States in less than 24 hours, leaving dozens…Read more →

Lindsey Graham said that he will create legislation to expand police powers to preemptively seize firearms from people believed to be a danger. The hostile and corrupt leaders in government refuse to address real problems, and instead makes them worse, and then removes the Constitutional right to protect ourselves.

California has some of the most restrictive anti-gun laws in the US, but criminals do not obey them, leaving law-abiding citizens disarmed and vulnerable.