by Patrick Vecchio I watched President Obama’s emotional remarks Friday in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. I was glad I had a box of tissues nearby. I suspect millions of us have had the same reaction. A story line that surfaced yesterday and will linger for weeks is the inevitable question […]
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Sandy Hook vs. Chengping: two school attacks in stark contrast
At Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, 27 people – 20 of them kindergarteners – are dead at the hands of a gunman armed with a Glock and a Sig Sauer. Meanwhile, a madman ran amok in a school in Henan province, China today, as well. A knife-wielding man injured 22 children and one […]
Sandy Hook: Enough with the flashbacks already
Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that there was a school shooting by an adult assailant at a Connecticut elementary earlier today. Reports are still in flux, but at the moment it looks like an entire kindergarten class was likely murdered. As the parent of a first and third grader who are thousands […]
Review: Columbine by Dave Cullen
It’s one of those days of American history that lives in infamy: April 20, 1999, the day Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in suburban Denver, killing twelve students and a teacher, and inuring twenty-four others, before turning their guns on themselves. Say “Columbine” today, and nearly […]
School, mall and workplace shootings: Why so many? No, why so few?
The second in our “Cult of Crime” series (Part 1: Foxy Knoxy and the case of the honorary Missing White Woman) Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion by Mark Ames Soft Skull Press, 2005 360 pages, $15.95 In April 2007, when a Virginia Tech student killed 32, it was one of the worst ever, to […]
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