A journalist (profile here) who studies mass shootings, created a mass shooting database, and wrote a book about preventing them thinks the science of behavioral threat assessment may offer a solution. Get the book here and watch video below. For an example of how it’s being used by public sch[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Violence’
February 9th, 2022 - 11:58 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP’s favorite gun-toting attorneys in license doghouse
A St. Louis lawyer couple who threatened BLM protesters with guns (photo below) are on professional probation for a year. (Story here.) Mark and Patricia McCloskey pled guilty to misdemeanors (see story here), but were pardoned by Missouri’s GOP governor. The McCloskeys, who have a seamy histo[...]
December 3rd, 2021 - 12:56 pm § in Law and Courts
Michigan school shooter mom’s crazy letter to Trump
She wrote to Trump in 2016 to thank him for supporting “gun rights.” In rambling fuming, she blamed her son’s poor school performance on Common Core and “illegal immigrants,” asserting “most of their parents are locked up.” (Statistics show that citizens hav[...]
November 20th, 2021 - 1:08 pm § in Law and Courts
Why it’s not safe to fly
This is why: “The accidental discharge of a passenger’s weapon in a security area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic Saturday afternoon, prompting a brief halt of departing flights over the busy travel weekend,” CNN reported on November 20, [...]
June 11th, 2021 - 2:44 pm § in Misc.
America lets monsters have guns
Timothy J. Wall, 55, posted on Facebook that he desired to “kill people and children.” Then he walked into a Florida supermarket, shot a 1-year-old boy in the head, and after a brief struggle with the boy’s grandmother, shot her too. Police say they didn’t know him. Then he k[...]
June 12th, 2020 - 2:21 pm § in America
Colorado tragedy: Shot over dog poop
Isabella Thallas, 21, and her boyfriend, Darian Simon, were shot while walking his dog in a Denver neighborhood on Thursday (June 11, 2020). A Denver TV station reported the shooting occurred “after a man yelled at Simon for commanding the dog ‘to poop.'” The man, identified by pol[...]