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The sign welcoming visitors to Fort Hood hails it as “The Great Place.” With its soldiers reeling and recovering from another on-base shooting rampage, however, that sign is taking on the specter of gallows humor. A major in the U.S. Army opened fire this afternoon at a processing facility at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12… Read more.
It never takes long for national tragedies in America to devolve into rubbernecking TV spectacles. The shooting rampage at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC this morning is a case in point — complete with wall-to-wall coverage, 99 percent of which is peddling misinformation and stoking fear, and hourly law-enforcement/political press conferences, 98 percent of which is… Read more.
A lone gunman reportedly opened fire at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut today, killing 20 children (ages 6-10) and six adults, before killing himself. It only adds perversity to his motivating psychosis that among the adults he killed was his own mother. For a little perspective, Yahoo News reports that: It is… Read more.
