On one of Sunday’s news shows, in an interview with Tom Ridge (former Secretary of Homeland Security), a newscaster asked the pertinent question “isn’t one of the first tenets of anti-terrorism to harden the target?” Friday, a gunman shot his way into a Connecticut school, a knife-wielding madman broke into an elementary school in China, and police arrested a student in Oklahoma planning violence against | Read More »
We and China experienced horrific events on Friday morning: 26 children and adults killed in Newtown, Connecticut, 22 school children and one adult killed in Chengping, Henan Province.. 20-year-old Adam Lanza stole his weapons; it would have been illegal for him (under existing Federal Law) to purchase the handguns he had. 36-year-old Min Yingjun used a knife; in the US, knives over about four inches | Read More »
Nothing can make up for the losses of our soldiers and their families. Their sacrifices are for our nation and not any temporary Commander in Chief. I know, because my wife and I have had friends and relatives “over there” in Iraq and Afghanistan (some, on multiple deployments) and our families have served and lost a few since 1776. I wonder where the media are | Read More »
My sympathies go out to the families of those wounded or killed in Arizona by a mad man. Investigations are already attempting to tie the murderer (Jared Loughner) to “right-wing” politics, but everybody misses the point: A federal judge, a congressional aide and a young girl were among the six people killed, while Giffords and 13 others were injured in the bursts of gunfire outside | Read More »
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