Luigi Mangione, Tyler Robinson, Dylann Roof, Colt Gray, and Thomas Matthew Crooks… In order, the alleged murderer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, charged assassin in the killing of Charlie Kirk,convicted murderer of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, SC in 2015, the former classmate and alleged shooter of 11 students and adults (four fatalities, two faculty and two students) at his alma mater, Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia.
There are dozens of others across the quarter-century since the Columbine shooting of 1999. Almost all are disaffected, lone-wolf, angry, and disturbed young white men from their mid-teens to late 20s. A majority obtained their weapons through legal means, most often family-owned or through private sales.
Gun confiscation is a fantasy, and the state with among the most restrictive gun control laws, and a city with even more…Chicago, Illinois, recently experienced more than 50 shooting fatalities over the Labor Day weekend…