Mass Shootings Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Feb 22, 2023

Whenever there is a horrific mass shooting somewhere in the country, the liberal chattering classes begin the usual mantra. Calls for red flag laws and a ban on assault weapons flood the op-ed pages of the New York Times and…

by | Jan 25, 2023

Postjudice, a perfectly cromulent word, characterizes a reaction, extraordinary mostly in its ordinariness, to the elderly Asian man murdering 11 mostly older Asians at a Monterey Park, California, dance hall. “Was the shooting an act of anti-Asian bigotry?” University of…

by | Nov 27, 2022

This week, another evil mass shooter unleashed horror at a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and wounding another 25. The shooter — whose name I refuse to mention in order to disincentivize future shooters, who seek notoriety —…

by | Nov 22, 2022

Bruce Willis merely saw dead people. Democrats see the Republicans who murdered them. The latest manifestation of this supernatural power occurred in Colorado Springs, where an admitted heroin addict, arrested last year for threatening to bomb his own mother, murdered…

by | Jul 24, 2022

No phrase is hated more by the anti-gun cartel than “the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” It challenges the narrative that guns in America are inherently bad and that…

by | Jul 23, 2022

Anti-gun activists often ask, “Why should anyone be allowed to carry a firearm in public?” Well, recent events in Greenwood, Indiana provide yet another example of how armed, law-abiding citizens can make the world a safer place. Last weekend, a…

by | Jul 19, 2022

A suspected mass shooter who killed three people at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana, on Sunday had his rampage cut short when an armed citizen shot and killed him. The 20-year-old alleged shooter opened fire in the mall’s food court…

by | Jul 12, 2022

Washington — There are some 400 million guns in private hands in America. Possibly I exaggerate. Let us say there are only 350 million guns in private hands in America. That still means there are more guns than citizens in…

by | Jun 17, 2022

Recent slaughters in the New York City Transit System, in a grocery store in Buffalo, and in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, each staggered one on the other with little pause, kindle the nagging sense that the foundations that…

by | Jun 14, 2022

After the 2018 Parkland massacre, I published the article “Mass Shootings: Lessons Since Columbine.” For those keeping score, we recently passed the 23rd anniversary of that April 20, 1999 horror show, which catapulted school safety into a top-echelon issue. Disturbing…

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