A graph indicating mass killings in public spaces since 1982. The size of the circle indicates the number of people murdered. The color indicates the location. The red line indicates when the federal assault weapons ban ended.
Means, motive and opportunity. All three matter. Making it more difficult to obtain the means will make it more challenging to commit impulsive acts of mass murder.
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
-W.H. Auden
“Rejecting identity politics doesn’t mean rejecting your own distinct culture. It means that cultural and racial differences shouldn’t be organizing principles.”
– Razib Khan
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed—that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor. Hence they hold that labor is the superior—greatly the superior of capital.
-Abraham Lincoln
I first him read this on the PBS News Hour on Labor Day probably twenty-five years ago. I’ve thought of it every Labor Day since.
“Parochial isolationism requires fantasy, and it’s deadly for others.”
– Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
“Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.”
-Ulysses S. Grant
