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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand on Thursday announced a national ban on all military-style semiautomatic weapons, all high-capacity ammunition magazines and all parts that allow weapons to be modified [the way the Las Vegas shooting did to carry out his massacre]. … Ms. Ardern is expected to encounter little resistance to the weapons… Read more.
And you have every reason to fear that another one might be in your midst, lying in wait to do the same. I explained why in commentaries like “New Normal Comes to New York City…,” October 21, 2017, and “Norway’s Timothy McVeigh Perpetrates National Massacre,” July 23, 2011. The latter includes this excerpt: ____________________ What… Read more.
Natural disasters – like earthquakes – should always remind us that there but for the grace of God… But there’s no denying that living in a relatively rich country increases one’s chance of surviving such disasters tremendously… It’s bad enough that accident of birth can consign one to a life of chronic poverty. It just… Read more.
One can be forgiven for wondering why relatively little media attention is being paid to the fate of the 29 miners who are currently trapped in an exploded coal mine in New Zealand. But it might be helpful to know that it was weeks before the 33 miners who were trapped in that exploded coal… Read more.
