Tag Archives: mass shootings

Kelley is just the latest in a long line of men with documented records of domestic abuse who went on killing sprees well after police became aware of their propensity for violence: Stephen Paddock (58 dead, Las Vegas, Oct. 1); James Hodgkinson (attack on members of Congress, Alexandria, Va., June 14); Robert Lewis Dear (the self-described “warriors for the babies,” killed three people at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Nov. 27, 2015); and Omar Mateen (49 killed, Orlando, June, 2016).

I don’t want to write about shootings anymore. I don’t want to “Look for the helpers." I don’t want to try to find some evidence of a higher power in the bloodstains.

The front cover of the New York Daily News for Thursday takes a strong stance against how some politicians are reacting to the San Bernardino shooting with calls for prayer instead of tighter gun control laws.

As a whole, as a culture, we are addicted to guns, and we are addicted to violence.

Chris Harper-Mercer was not a zero, he was a person; with thoughts and feelings just like everyone else.

When it comes to gun violence, our ritual is well known: Express shock and horror.