Tag / shooting
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The Conspirator-In-Chief
In the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterms, the United States faced an onslaught of right-wing terror. Among these tragic events was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, in which eleven were killed and seven were injured in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Within hours, it was clear that the shooter was motivated by…
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The Unproductive Response to Shooters
Two years ago I wrote an article about gun control for my high school’s political review following the tragic shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College. Prominent news sources were quick to follow the tragedy with articles describing both the shooting and the shooter himself. Many of the articles I read focused on the shooter, his…
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Correcting an Error
I have been thinking about writing this article for a long time. Even as I write it now, I know I should have written this earlier. I should have written this after Samuel DuBose. I should have written this after Sandra Bland. I should have written this after Walter Scott. But I didn’t. So I…
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Wash U and its Community
BY MADELEINE SHER I was coming up the stairs from doing laundry in the basement when I hear a loud, raucous yelling from a large group of people. I went into the kitchen and looked out the window and saw them all in the street, just in front of the old Delmar Transit station. This…
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Looking down the Barrel
Recent large-scale tragedies at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and the Empire State Building have reinvigorated our nation’s debate over gun control. As America enters election season, gun control will undoubtedly be a point of great contention for voters. President Obama certainly believes in the constitutional right…
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Virginia Tech, Unfiltered
Shortly after noon today, a police officer was shot dead on the Virginia Tech campus. Minutes later, police discovered another body in a parking garage. The campus was locked down, cutting it off from the outside world. Information trickled out via Twitter, but the tag #VirginiaTech was soon flooded by outsiders eager to voice their…
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Hitting the target, missing the point
I want to say something about the Giffords shooting that so far no one else has said, least of all Democrats. It wasn’t, as many left wing pundits have been quick to cry, the Republicans’ fault. It was not vitriolic rhetoric, nor inflammatory rhetoric, nor harsh rhetoric, nor even heated rhetoric that caused this. It was not Sarah…
