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In retrospect, perhaps it’s appropriate that it was in Texas. The Lone Star State is perennially near or at the top in mass shootings and death penalty executions. This past Sunday in Waco there was another tragedy, a giant shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in which nine were left dead, 18 injured and 170 arrested. […]
