The mass shooting at the Aurora, Colorado, Cinemark Theatre on July 20, 2012 is a tragedy. There is no doubt about that. It was, however, a preventable tragedy (at least as far as the high body count goes) except for one thing: all of those fine Colorado folks did what law-abiding people always do... they obeyed the rules. What rule? The rule issued by Cinemark that … [Read more...]
Our National Monument to Women’s Victimhood
This is part of my ongoing series on Canadian Mass Murders. I was going to write something about Gamil Gharbi's insane killing spree that left fourteen promising young women dead in Montreal back in 1989. But after reading my article from 2008, I really didn't see what I would say today that I could say any better than I wrote then. Maybe next year I'll find a new … [Read more...]