Going door to door to grab guns from folks in 1994 was considered a fool’s errand.
All tagged mass shooting
A Weekend of Madmen
It’s hard to explain how, in a country with declining violent crime rates, we have sporadic, ghastly massacres.
Open Government. Virginia Beach-Style.
Virginia law is crystal clear. There is no ambiguity. No exceptions for terrible tragedies.
Virginia Beach Needs To Come Clean: Part 2.
Instead of holding regular press conferences and responding quickly to media inquiries, the city of Virginia Beach’s “communications” department is issuing late Thursday afternoon missives.
Virginia Beach Shooting and Transparency
“We used to joke that it would take a member of the public shooting up the place to get them to put card swipers on our floor,” I was told by one survivor.
Virginia Beach Needs To Come Clean
Despite an affable mayor who favors transparency in business deals, the information flow about the killing spree is being controlled by the city manager and his staff who have no history of transparency.
Armed Felons
In Virginia Beach alone there are so many felons seeking their gun rights that the courts set aside a day every month to deal with the cases. And lawyers now specialize in gun rights cases.
Ralph Northam. Opportunist.
Gun control has long been on Northam’s to-do list. When most of his gun agenda died in the winter of 2018 Northam declared he was “just getting warmed up.”
Mass Shooters And Notoriety
It’s a delicate balance. Weighing the need to know against the danger of romanticizing a killer.
Virginia Beach
I think about the city employees who headed to work on Friday with plans for the weekend, thinking it was just another day. But didn’t live to see the sun set.