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.
These three presidents have stories that are interwoven. Much like the threads of an olive green military dress uniform, pulling too hard, now, at any one loose string, could start unraveling the fabric to bare what lies beneath.
One avenue of investigation is already closed off to forensic officials working the Boston Marathon bombing case due to efforts dating back decades by the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers.
The rites of spring rarely change. Every year, even before turkey season begins, hunters begin sighting their shotguns. Every spring, too, eligible members of the National Rifle Association elect directors to its governing board.
The main argument driving the modern NRA is not a pragmatic, but an ideological one.
The current head of the Nominating Committee, Patricia A. Clark, lives in Newtown, just a couple of miles from the school where 20 young children and six adults were massacred.
The first time the U.S. tried to extradite a Guatemalan military officer for drug trafficking, it took the assassination of the nation’s chief justice, in 1994, to stop it. No officers and few civilians have been extradited since.
