I see where an unidentified white male — possibly a disgruntled reader — wielding a shotgun, killed five and “gravely wounded” seven today at the offices of the Annapolis Capital Times, a daily newspaper increasingly shifting to “digital platforms,” a subsidiary of the Baltimore Sun and thus, eventually, of the Chicago Tribune and the Big […]
Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell of California wants to ban “assault weapons” (by which he means semi-automatic hunting and target rifles, of course), install a federal gun “buy-back program” for those who own them (think you’d get to name your own price?), and criminally prosecute those who refuse to hand them over, reported Robert Donachie on […]
Politico reported April 22 “Utah Senate hopeful Mitt Romney was narrowly defeated at Saturday’s (Utah) state GOP convention and will be forced into a June primary, a setback in his political comeback bid.
What the heck is Donald Trump up to?
There was a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Feb. 14. (Former?) student Nikolas de Jesus Cruz (who was reportedly a subject of bullying there) used a .223-caliber, one-shot-per-trigger-pull rifle (not an “automatic weapon” as claimed by Democratic Florida Sen. Bill Nelson.) Young de Jesus Cruz left 17 dead, dozens more injured.
I believe I hear the fellow from CNN (who appears to close his eyes while firing) saying of the AR-15 “It’s a weapon designed to inflict maximum damage,” here:
19-year-old Nikolas de Jesus Cruz — who killed 17 former schoolmates at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Feb. 14 — had committed numerous serious crimes over the previous five years, including assault, but had no criminal record (which would have prevented him from buying firearms.)
One “Etaoin Shrdlu” has posted a comment below my post “Too busy wiretapping candidates, rigging elections, covering their asses,” (immediately below) as follows:
So police were called out to visit with Florida “Valentine’s Day” shooter-to-be Nikolas de Jesus Cruz THIRTY-NINE TIMES over the past seven years, for “mentally ill, domestic violence, assault, threats, Peeping Tom, shooting animals . . .” yet (as Loyal Correspondent Bear points out) neither cops nor school officials ever made use of the Florida […]