What was the mother of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter thinking? Trying to find a way to help her troubled youngest son, whom she brought him to area gun ranges where other, well-adjusted young men practiced.
After the unspeakable tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, many observers expected the National Rifle Association to wither. Instead, it only emerged stronger, facilitating the rise of Trump. What explains the NRA’s success?
“Poor Al he was a Sharp guy,” begins the description of a gun target firm’s newest “Life-Sized Tactical Mannequin Target.” With a dark skin tone and features that seem to resemble the civil rights figure the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Here’s why the NRA is dead wrong about gun control causing genocide. But at least even their paid scholars agree with human rights groups about the horrors of the military dictatorship in Guatemala.
The main argument driving the modern NRA is not a pragmatic, but an ideological one.
Back in 1989, the CIA built its first counter-narcotics center in the basement of its Directorate of Operations headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Since then, the newly renamed “crime and narcotics center” has increased four-fold, says CIA spokeswoman Anya Guilsher…
An unusual cartoon appeared recently in a Guatemalan newspaper. It showed the small figure of Helen Mack swinging a hammer, chipping away at a towering brick wall that symbolized more than thirty-seven years of military impunity. Helen Mack is leading her family’s investigation of the September 1990 assassination of her sister, Myrna…
