Just so everyone knows: The American Jewish Committee's Washington DC chapter has established a memorial fund for Stephen Tyrone Johns, who was killed...
Von Brunn was under federal observation for years. That should have prevented a felon like him from ever purchasing a deadly weapon again. But it didn't and the question is why not?
Let yesterday's attack be a wake-up call: racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are alive and well in America. But like every tragedy, there is always a lesson to be learned: we must change ourselves.
It is good to see so many progressive voices condemning this bigoted and twisted act of violence. However, much of the analysis of this incident seems to skirt a more troubling and confounding question.