On August 7th, movie theater shooter James Holmes was sentenced to life in prison. At the sentencing hearing, Holmes’s mother pleaded that he was a sweet, innocent boy whose mental illness haunted him and eventually turned him into a murderer. From Columbine to Charleston, every time a white man opens fire, mental illness is the…

Dylann Roof, who murdered nine black parishioners because they were black has been charged by the central government with committing hate crimes. Words cannot adequately express the evil of Roof’s actions at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and no decent person would want to say anything that be could possibly be construed…

Dylann Roof’s racially motivated murders of nine black churchgoers have brought predictable calls for new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. How ironic this is we shall soon see. Advocates of gun rights argue that the best way to prevent such atrocities is for would-be victims to arm themselves; killers will break…

Na quarta-feira, dia 17 de junho, um atirador assassinou nove membros da Igreja Emanuel Metodista Episcopal Africana, uma igreja historicamente negra em Charleston na Carolina do Sul. Após sentar na igreja por uma hora, o atirador fez comentários racistas antes de abrir fogo. Após esse crime claramente direcionado às pessoas negras por conta de sua…