Sadly, the everyday, run of the mill homicides and suicides that comprise almost all gun deaths are not very newsworthy. Mass shootings are. It’s just the nature of public interest in the news.

If the police used rifles, body armor wouldn’t have done much unless he had level IV SAPI plates installed.

Yes, completely redefining the meaning of terrorism to fit your narrative does completely change the historical numbers, kind of how redefining the term “murder” to include legal induced abortions would completely change a conversation about who commits the most murders.

I’m not sure why you would write that when two of the experts I quoted specifically mentioned white nationalist terrorism. It simply was not a huge factor in the 1970s. In the 1970s, the biggest source of terrorism was left-wing ideology, especially groups supported by the Soviet Union and other communist powers.

Pretty much every terrorism expert I have talked to and everything I have read on terrorism says that your assertion is incorrect. Domestic terrorism and indeed, worldwide terrorism was primarily carried out by the far left during the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1980s, it had begun to seriously decline as a threat in the…

The 1970s were the last decade where the vast majority of deadly domestic terrorist attacks were committed by leftists. The 1980s were kind of a wash. The 1990s saw a dramatic growth in both Islamic and right wing (especially white nationalist) terrorist attacks. Glasnost and then the collapse of the Soviet Union took…

I feel sorry for you guys. I didn’t realize the Texas governor was such a bigot.

Antifa basically shows up to various right-wing rallies to engage in street violence. They’re the most violent and prominent part of the far left in this country, so they are the poster boy for the right trying to prove how violent the left is. But Antifa is pretty tame compared to the various extremists on the far…

There are a few other countries that copied our form of government, most notably the United Mexican States.

To be fair, antifa is doing a lot more than protesting. They are going to protests to engage in street violence against their political opponents. They’re basically thugs and arguably even terrorists and should be condemned and dealt with accordingly.

There was a time when the vast majority of deadly domestic terrorist attacks were committed by leftist extremists, but that time is decades in the past. While there are some very occasional terrorist attacks by the far left, the vast majority of deaths over the past two decades has been committed by two groups:…

I think a big part of the problem too is that we are using spree killings like these, which are extremely uncommon in terms of the overall number of gun deaths, to try to set gun policy.

It has already been widely reported in credible news sources like the New York Times. It’s not like the blogger here is putting out information that is not already widely available in the mainstream media or specifically calling for harassment against the dealers. 

Um, there’s a huge difference. Automatic weapons are designed solely for combat and can fire hundreds of rounds per minute. They often have features like fast-swap barrels so that users can continuously fire their weapon after the barrel overheats. They are strictly regulated by federal law and mostly prohibited for…

He bought it from a dealer, so he had to pass federal background checks. California is one of the few states that requires such weapons to be purchased by someone 21 years or older, but he purchased the weapon in Nevada, where the legal age to buy rifles is 18, just as it was in California until a few months ago. 

The weapon used was not a machine gun. 

I would say that it is a pretty meaningless distinction. In California, the difference between a “hunting” rifle and an illegal assault rifle (like the kind used in the Gilroy attack) is the presence of a pistol grip, a bayonet lug, and possibly a forward vertical grip and a folding or collapsing buttstock.

That seems . . . . unlikely. I do think it is likely that the race is going to be closer in Texas than it has been before. We already saw that back in 2016 and the trend is likely to continue as Republican-leaning educated Texans and Latinos vote Democratic at a higher rate than other elections. The only way Texas…

Mitch McConnell is anything but weak. Politics is a Battle Royale where the strongest, most duplicitous people who will do anything for power tend to rise to the top. Call it political selection, an analog to natural selection. The same is true with Pelosi. They are in their positions for one reason, because they are…

Anyone here remember the when John McCain called a POW “not a hero” and told a crowd of supporters that Mexican immigrants were rapists? Or how about the time Mitt Romney said that there were good people on both sides of a rally where one side was almost entirely neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and white nationalists?