Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a 39-year-old woman from San Diego, traveled to YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California and began shooting random YouTube employees with a 9mm handgun. She wounded three people before turning her weapon on herself. One of her victims remains in critical condition. Aghdam was reportedly upset with how YouTube was “filtering” her videos so...
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Whatever we are doing to stop mass shootings is not working
Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old white nationalist walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School located in Parkland, Florida armed with an AR-15 style assault weapon and murdered 17 people, including both adults and children. It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that whatever we’re doing to stop these mass shootings isn’t working. Maybe...
Read MoreRemember when I said we should ban all guns?
Shortly after the Las Vegas massacre, I declared that all firearms should be banned. I’ve thought a lot about it since writing that and I’ve changed my mind. I don’t think we should ever ban firearms, at least in my lifetime. In a perfect world, guns would be obsolete Don’t get me wrong, in a...
Read MoreA total ban on bump stocks?
In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, it looks like Democrats are finally going to push for an outright ban on firearms. Just kidding. Instead of joining the rest of the industrialized free world and banning the personal ownership of firearms, the Democrats have set their sights on banning bump stocks. A bump stock...
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