Most Mass Shooters Aren’t Insane, Their Actions are a Quest for Significance Gone Horribly Wrong

Arie Kruglanski, University of Maryland Agonizing questions are being raised by the recent tragic shooting incident in Buffalo, New York, where 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron is alleged to have shot 10 people dead and wounded three. As in the recent years’ similar acts of horror at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, a Walmart in El Paso, … Read more

The Noxious, One-Sided Fixation on Blaming Liberals’ Political Enemies for Mass Shootings

So desperate and uncontrolled was this ghoulish attempt to blame [Tucker] Carlson for the Buffalo shootings that my email inbox and social media feeds were festering with various liberal pundits demanding to know why I had not yet manifested my views of this shooting — as though it is advisable or even possible to formulate … Read more

Buffalo Shooter Reportedly Chose a New York Target Because of the State’s Gun Control Laws

  The officially unidentified shooter who opened fire at a Buffalo, New York grocery store reportedly published a racist, anti-semitic 180-page manifesto justifying his efforts to “show to the replacers that as long as the White man lives, our land will never be theirs and they will never be safe from us.” The manifesto, which … Read more