CORONAVIRUS IS A MAN-MADE VIRUS? "This Finding Suggest (Coronavirus) Originated From One Source Very Rapidly"

This is a screenshot, so I can save this for posterity. I will also post the original Tweets.

15. One source or many sources? The mutation rate suggests the 2019-nCoV came from just one recent source in single jump (as opposed to several mutation sources). This doesn’t mean much other than it wasn’t several strains that started outbreak. Don’t over-interpret. Just FYI. pic.twitter.com/utEN7O4krg

— Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 30, 2020

16. UPDATE ON 🦠 GENOME 🧬: a very intriguing new paper investigating the aforementioned mystery middle segment w/ “S” spike protein: likely origin from HIV. “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag” from https://t.co/QAX3usr7vw pic.twitter.com/WeVA948xin

— Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 31, 2020

17. ...WHOA- the authors said the finding was “Unexpectedly” related to genes from HIV virus. Notably there were 4 gene insertions (see figure in above post #16). And so, which HIV gene proteins were found in the new #coronarvirus? Gag protein and Gp120- key HIV proteins... pic.twitter.com/epN66WcObj

— Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 31, 2020

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

holy shit, this thing was manufactured by the Chinese as a bio-weapon by inserting an HIV element. And it got out from their bio-weapons lab in Wuhan. That is what you are saying isn't it?

— Katarek (@tomjsikora) January 31, 2020

AND THIS:

I'm glad to see our government is FINALLY taking this seriously.

OH, AND BY THE WAY:

Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese bio-warfare program

Another Murderous Migrant (Germany)

Ali Bashar

From 14-Year-Old Jewish Girl Murdered by Muslim Refugee in Germany: Another innocent girl pays the price for Europe’s open borders by Daniel Greenfield (June 8, 2018):

On May 22, Susanna Maria Feldman went missing. It was the day after the Jewish holiday of Shavuot which celebrates G-d’s revelation of the Ten Commandments to Moses and a nation of freed slaves.

The fifth commandment is, “Honor thy father and mother.” The sixth is, “Thou shalt not murder.”

And in the German city of Mainz, whose Jewish community dates back to Roman times, a worried mother waited for the worst. Susanna had gone off with her friends. They came home. And she didn’t.

Her mother received a WhatsApp message from her daughter's phone on the afternoon of the 22nd. "Mom, I'm not coming home. I went to Paris with my friend. Don't look for me. I'll come back after 2 or 3 weeks. Bye."

According to Diana, Susanna’s mother, the message sounded nothing like her daughter. 4 hours later, the teenage girl’s phone was switched off. There was nothing more.

"I hope and pray that nothing bad has happened to her," she posted on Facebook. "Please help me find my daughter safe again."

The police reassured the frantic mother that her daughter had just gone off with some friends and would come back on her, but she feared the worst while the authorities stonewalled.

On June 1, she published an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel in which she wrote, "I feel abandoned by the German state."

Two weeks passed. The police searched. Dogs sniffed around but found nothing. And then someone noticed a flash of white among all that brown and green. It was the white of a clothing label.

They found her body between the railroad tracks and Autobahn 66. The killer had stashed the girl under a bush and covered her over with twigs to keep the body out of sight and to buy him some time.

Susanna’s body had been dumped a few hundred meters from the refugee shelter where her alleged killer had been living. The traffic noise of the highway would have covered any sounds the young Jewish girl might have made as a Muslim refugee brutally raped and then strangled her to death.

[...]

Ali Bashar, one of the six sons, had come to Germany through Turkey and Greece. He had arrived in Germany in the fall of 2015 at the height of Merkel’s migration crisis. Since then, he had been accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in a refugee shelter, attacking a policewoman and robbing a man at knifepoint

His asylum application had been rejected at the end of 2016. Bashar claimed to have been threatened by the PKK, a Kurdish group fighting against ISIS and Turkey.

But he appealed, and was allowed to stay on in Germany until he finally killed.

[...]

The brand new Weisbaden refugee shelter built in 2016 has become the gateway to a cemetery.

And the same is true of every refugee shelter.

The 20-year-old Muslim refugee boasted of his crime to a 13-year-old in the refugee shelter. Ali’s younger brother had known Susanna and that may have made the rapist and killer’s work easier.

With that information, the police began searching around the refugee shelter and found Susanna.

[...]

As the search for Susanna wrapped up, a Jewish teenager in Germany was attacked by Muslim thugs who heard the music he was listening to. “Berlin is ours now,” they shouted, “and you won’t listen to crappy Jewish music here.”...

Read the entire appalling story HERE.

Was Stephen Paddock On The Spectrum?

The Autism Spectrum, that is.

I noticed the following information in this article (dated October 3, 2017):

Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock may have been a high-roller, but he lost a slip-and-fall lawsuit against a Nevada casino in 2014 — and still owed $270 in court fees when he killed at least 59 people Sunday, including himself.

Security video from the Cosmopolitan Hotel shows Paddock slipping and falling on Oct. 30, 2011, as he walked from a hotel shop towards a high-stakes area in the casino. Paddock said he had slipped in a puddle of liquid and sued the hotel in 2012, initially asking for $100,000, according to the attorney for the hotel, Marty Kravitz.

"They always ask for a lot more than they can get, but he got nothing," said Kravitz.

Kravitz met Paddock when he testified in a deposition for the lawsuit. Paddock enjoyed a special high-roller status with perks at at least one Vegas casino, but Kravitz described the man he met as "unkempt," "slovenly and careless" and "bizarre."

When Paddock fell at the hotel, said Kravitz, he "was wearing crappy flip-flops with a beverage in a bag in his hand."

"You wonder what a guy like this is doing at the Cosmo."

Kravitz also said, however, that there was "nothing about Paddock that would ever indicate someone who was unstable."

"This is not a guy that I would have looked at and thought, 'He's going to commit a crime one day.'"...

And I read elsewhere that he won big at the video poker machines by using algorithms he devised.

All the above information points to eccentricity, if not genius.  But those same signs could point to Asperger's.

I am also reminded of the film Rain Man.

Stephen Paddock appeared to have exhibited some of the behaviors on this list, including the following:

• Repeating certain behaviors or having unusual behaviors
   
• Having overly focused interests, such as with moving objects or parts of objects
   
• Having a lasting, intense interest in certain topics, such as numbers, details, or facts.

Noted author and inventor* John Elder Robison, who has Asperger's and certain savant abilities, spent some time back in 2013 vehemently denying that Asperger's is linked to violence. What brought Mr. Robison to discuss this matter? Adam Lanza of the Sandy Hook shootings appears to have had Asperger's that devolved into something deadly.

Perhaps, just perhaps, it is because Stephen Paddock falls somewhere on the spectrum that his actions make no sense and that he was able to live a secret life.

For the record, I've worked with several students on the spectrum.  Until a few years ago, I'd never seen one of these students tip over into psychosis.  But that particular student did!  The precipitating event?  A car accident, and the parents had to replace the car.  He couldn't handle the change.  Then they got a used car of the same make and model.  No dice.  The car didn't sound right to him.  His parents are still looking for "the right combination of medications."  And since he descended into aggressiveness and volatility, they sleep with their bedroom door locked  The last time I heard from the young man's mother, she was hoping to get him into the local community college.  I make a point of no longer communicating with the family.

* John Elder Robison used his self-taught knowledge to design guitars for the rock band KISS and toys for Milton Bradley.

Feminist Logic

CNN Reports On ISIS' Murder of Gay People According to Verses in the Koran

In this segment, CNN's reporter interviews a gay man talking about how he heard some Muslims citing the Koran to justify the murder of gays. They quoted a specific verse.

He says his reaction to hearing this verse was,

"Whenever we (gay people) hear this, we know it is for gay people. It was the moment of clarity. The moment of understand that this place is not safe anymore."

If only all Infidels and Jews would be so honest with themselves.

Instead we wander around meekly, mumbling to ourselves,

"It has nothing to do with Islam. They don't really want to annihilate us, wipe us off the map. They don't really mean it. It has nothing to do with Islam."

Let us speak the truth here: The only reason CNN tied these murders of gay people to the Koran is because homosexuals of a preferred caste of the PC-establishment.

You will not see such a report on ISIS' murder of Christians or Jews, even though the Koran specifies that Muslims should also murder Christians and Jews.

American Sniper Killer - Eddie Ray Routh - GUILTY of first degree murder

From NBC:

A Texas jury has found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of murder in the killings of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend, Chad Littlefield. The jury announced its verdict at around 9:20 p.m. local time (10:20 p.m. E.T.) at a Stephenville courthouse. 

They were given the case at 6:36 p.m. local time (7:36 p.m. E.T.). Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, and Routh was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. 

"We just want to say that we've waited two years for God to get justice for us on behalf of our son and as always God has proved to be faithful, and we're so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight," Littlefield's mother, Judy Littlefield, told reporters after the verdict was read. 

Routh, 27, admitted to killing both men at the shooting range of Rough Creek Lodge and Resort, southwest of Dallas, on Feb. 2, 2013. Routh pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to capital murder. 

His attorneys have said Routh, a former Marine corporal who served in Iraq but not in a combat role, was in the grip of a medically diagnosed psychosis at the time of the killings. 

Prosecutors said that Routh was drinking and smoking marijuana on the morning of the crime. They argued that he was paranoid because he was high, and that he was angry about living with his parents, relationship problems, money and his job — then exploded after he believed Kyle and Littlefield snubbed him. 

Experts for the prosecution have testified that Routh knew what he was doing was wrong when he killed the two men. 

Earlier Tuesday, jurors heard a recording in which Routh told a reporter nearly four months after the killings that, "It tore my (expletive) heart out what I did. I don't know why I did it, but I did it." 

Routh, speaking to a reporter from The New Yorker magazine on May 31, 2013, also said, "I feel so (expletive) about it. I guess you live and learn, you know."

Unless you are Chris Kyle, I guess.

Army announces Fort Hood victims will receive Purple Heart

From Fox News:

Secretary of the Army John McHugh announced Friday that victims of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre will receive the Purple Heart, in an about-face for the military which initially described the attacks as "workplace violence." The decision to award the Purple Heart was first reported by Fox News. 

In a written statement, McHugh cited a recent change in the law that allowed the Army to proceed with the medals. "The Purple Heart's strict eligibility criteria had prevented us from awarding it to victims of the horrific attack at Fort Hood," McHugh said in a statement. 

"Now that Congress has changed the criteria, we believe there is sufficient reason to allow these men and women to be awarded and recognized" with either the Purple Heart or, for civilians, the Defense of Freedom medal. "It's an appropriate recognition of their service and sacrifice," McHugh said. 

Victims of the 2009 shooting and their families had been pressing the military to award the Purple Heart, and the benefits that come with it, for years. 

They got a boost when Congress passed recent funding legislation requiring the Defense Department to reconsider whether the victims qualify for the honor. 

The Army statement on Friday said the legislation expanded the eligibility criteria by broadening what can be considered an attack by a foreign terrorist organization. 

The Army determined the shooting could be considered an attack because the shooter "was in communication with the foreign terrorist organization before the attack."

Was Chris Kyle's Killer a Converted Muslim --- He Claimed to Have PTSD, But Never Saw Combat, Never Even Left The Base ... EVER?

Hmm ...

From Young Conservatives:

New information is surfacing about the man who killed former SEAL Chris Kyle. As the story goes, Chris Kyle took Marine Eddie Ray Routh, who was allegedly suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, to a Texas gun range where he turned the gun on Kyle. 

But according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Routh was never in combat, so it’s unlikely he was suffering from PTSD. 

On their Facebook page, The Warfighter Foundation, wrote that “he NEVER SAW COMBAT or any aspect of traumatic events associated with a combat deployment (i.e. incoming mortar or rocket fire). He never left the base, EVER.” 

Now people are taking a closer look at Routh, and it’s speculated that he might have been an Islamic sympathizer. 

From Truth Revolt: 

What is known. however, is that Routh, while never serving in combat, did work at the Bilad Airbase prison, guarding Muslim terrorists. 

Walid Shoebat, a former radicalized Muslim terrorist and member of the PLO who has since converted to Christianity, believes that because of his past and credentials, he is confident in his deduction that Eddie Routh was in fact becoming a radical Muslim, although there is no proof yet of the conversion.  

Shoebat brings as one proof a phone call Routh had with his father where he expressed sympathy for the detainees he was guarding. 

“During a phone call with his father, Routh expressed sympathy for the detainees and discontent over how the US was conducting the war as well as his reluctance to engage in combat” and “While working as a guard at Balad Air Base, Routh laments his [Muslim] prisoners’ poor living conditions.” 

He continues, “It is a known fact that Routh’s family contacted Kyle about their son’s diminishing mental health. Routh was admitted to inpatient psychiatric treatment prior to the events at Rough Creek Ranch, according to a report from the Daily Mail. 

Routh had been taken to a mental hospital twice in the past five months and told authorities that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, police records show.”

From Allen West:

The Warfighter Foundation is a non-profit organization that used the Freedom of Information act to learn more about Routh’s history. “[Routh] held a non-combat arms occupation of 2111 (Small Arms Repairer/ Technician or more commonly referred to as an Armorer),” the group reported. 

“Balad Air Base had a Pizza Hut, 24 hour Burger King, Subway, Popeye’s, Baskin Robbins, movie theater, and even a miniature golf course. It even had a strictly enforced 10 mile per hour speed limit!” 

Shoebat says, “Routh had been taken to a mental hospital twice in the past five months and told authorities that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, police records show.” 

However, just saying you have PTSD is also different than actually being diagnosed. 

While Routh may indeed suffered mental problems, PTSD may not have been one of them. 

Nonetheless, the media will continue to focus on PTSD, which further casts doubt on our veterans and weakens our resolve for battle. 

But the last thing the media would ever consider is that Routh could have been a convert to Islam. It’s an interesting and discomfiting theory. 

And then there’s the matter of his beard with trimmed moustache. Of course we can’t engage in profiling, but…

What Muslims Are Good At

From Vlad Tepes Blog:

This video is so gruesome that one must under no circumstances show it to children or to highly sensitive adults. It shows how Muslim ISIS killers kill people. However, this video is different in one respect: they slowly cut the throat of one “unbeliever” and repeatedly interrupt the excruciating procedure in order to delight at the victim’s stertorous groaning and rolling eyes.  

The barbaric Mohammedans place their smart phones in the face of the pitiable individual whose head was already half cut through, and film it. One of them kicked the dying man in the head as well. All the while they continually shout “Allahu Akbar”, for Islam provides them with the legitimation for living out their perversely ferocious fantasies. 

Urgent warning: Only people with strong nerves should watch this actual horror film.

Excerpts from See No Evil

Go HERE for excerpts from the Fox News special report about Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell .

When Autists Become Monsters

From Salon in March of 2009:

The monster inside my son

For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew.

On Feb. 14 I awaken to this headline: “Professor Beaten to Death by Autistic Son.”

I scan the story while standing, my coffee forgotten. Trudy Steuernagel, a faculty member in political science at Kent State, has been murdered and her 18-year-old son, Sky, has been arrested and charged with the crime, though he is profoundly disabled and can neither speak nor understand. Sky, who likes cartoons and chicken nuggets, apparently lost control and beat his mother into a coma. He was sitting in jail when she died.

This happens to be two days after my older son’s 21st birthday, which we marked behind two sets of locked steel doors. I’m exhausted and hopeless and vaguely hung over because Andrew, who has autism, also has evolved from sweet, dreamy boy to something like a golem: bitter, rampaging, full of rage. It happened no matter how fiercely I loved him or how many therapies I employed.

Now, reading about this Ohio mother, there is a moment of slithering nausea and panic followed immediately by a sense of guilty relief.

I am not alone.

- – - – - – - – - – - -

Andrew started life as a mostly typical child. But at 3 and a half he became remote and perseverative, sitting in a corner and staring at his own splayed hand. Eventually he was diagnosed with high-functioning autism, a label that seemed to explain everything from his calendar memory and social isolation to his normal IQ....

Read the entire essay HERE.  Relate the contents of the essay to Adam Lanza, who according to the information to date, had a form of autism.

It is not politically correct to criticize the disabled.

But sometimes disability is mental illness. Dangerous and deadly mental illness, which resulted in the horror inside the walls of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012.

The Silence of the Pulpits

By Bill Warner at The American Thinker:

If you are even slightly awake about the world news today, it is no surprise that Christians are being killed, raped, and brutalized throughout the Islamic world.  However, there is a place where you can go to  escape the dreadful and relentless details of Christian annihilation by Islam.  You can just go to church. 

For example, Christians were killed this week in Nigeria.  Nothing out of the ordinary -- indeed, in the world of Christian persecution, this is routine. 

And so the response found in nearly every church to the murder of Christians is...wait for it...complete silence.  Not a mention or reference to it, or to the brutality against Christians that happens almost every day in the Islamic world.
This is not a passive silence, because if you try to change it, you will fail.  The silence is an active, working conspiracy that goes throughout nearly all of Christendom. 

Take a simple example: prayer for the persecuted.  From a Christian perspective, this falls under the heading of obvious.  Try taking the idea of prayer for the routinely murdered Christians in Nigeria or Egypt to ministers, boards, and any part of the structure of the church, and see how far you will get.  

You will get rejection with a myriad of lame and evasive excuses, since the people in power fear to recognize the suffering of Christians around the world.
If you acknowledge the suffering, you might wind up asking the question: why are these Christians suffering?  Ah, there is the rub.  The suffering is caused by Muslim jihadists who are following the Islamic doctrine of jihad against the Christian as found in Koran, Sira, and Hadith.  Islam is the cause of suffering of Christians, as well as of Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and atheists. 

But stop!  We cannot say those things!  Facts are the new hate speech, so we cannot speak about the jihad against Christians.  Therefore, we get no prayers for the persecuted, because it would lead to talk about why the murder of Christians keeps happening.  And that truth would lead to being called an Islamophobe, so we are not going there.  Result: silence. 

It is ironic that the Wall Street Journal, a financial newspaper, has run an article about the silence at the pulpit concerning the suffering of Christians.  We live in a time of moral inversion, when Christian leaders are chastised for their moral bankruptcy by money men.  It is supposed to be the other way around.
Actually, there are few religious leaders left in America.  Instead we have chief-executive-officers who manage a 501(c)(3) institution that has meetings on Sunday.  In too many cases, Christianity has devolved into an hour's meeting that is supposed to make you feel good for a week. 

This 501(c)(3) corporate mentality is another one of the roots of the denial of the Christian suffering.  If you are willing to see the doctrinal roots of the ongoing murder of Christians by Muslims, then you might have to speak about it from the pulpit, and that could be seen as political speech.  In spite of the fact that there has never been a 501(c)(3) revoked because of political speech by a minister, the imagined loss silences ministers.  Hmmm...if a minister is worried about the IRS revoking his 501(c)(3), then whom is the minster serving?  Caesar or Christ? 

Now, you may not be a Christian, and so it might seem that there is nothing here for you.  But in reality we all have pulpits.  Are we using the suffering of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, women, gays, and intellectuals caused by Islam as a topic of conversation with those around us?  Who is comfortable with bringing up anything negative about Islam?  To tell those facts about Islam is a social crime, and you will be accused of being a hater/Islamophobe.  So most of us remain silent about the evils of political Islam, and we are just like the ministers -- silent in our own pulpits.  Christians and non-Christians share the fear of being insulted as bigots and Islamophobes. 

It turns out that all of those who oppose any social evil will be hated.  Think about it.  It takes a massive amount of power to put into place any societal doctrine, such as multiculturalism and political correctness.  The government, universities, many churches, synagogues, and the media have become enforcers of multiculturalism and political correctness.  They are very powerful and believe that their dogma rules all peoples. 

They are also full-throated apologists for Islam.  Now it turns out that their actual knowledge about the doctrine and history of political Islam is close to zero and Muslim Brotherhood-approved, but that is no problem.  The Establishment just says that those who find fault with Islam are bigots and that they hate us. 

The silence of the pulpits is the greatest aider and abettor of Islam in the U.S.  No one serves and advances Islam better than the silent ministers.  They have abandoned their duty of courage in the face of persecution, but the rest of the flock still looks for moral leadership from them.  Islam triumphs when Christian leaders do not condemn the murderous evil of political Islam. 

Even worse than the silent ministers are those who go to "interfaith dialogs" and smile while the Muslims assert religious and political dominance over them.  The nice, oh so nice Christians and Jews show up to tie, while the Muslims are there to win, and they do. 

Christians need to follow the example of Jesus and willingly suffer the condemnation by the Establishment and fight against the political Islam that murders Christians.  Said another way, Christians should demonstrate courage and sacrifice to support their cruelly murdered brothers and sisters. 

We cannot defeat political Islam until we get Christian boots on the ground.  Do the math.  The pulpits must become a source of courage and knowledge and stand up for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and all others who suffer under Islam's persecution today and who have suffered for the last 1,400 years. 

It isn't just about religion; it is about the survival of our civilization.

On Television On Saturday, April 7, On CBS

Information about Sneak Peak: A Family's Honor below the fold:


Reading from CBS News: "Honor killing" under growing scrutiny in the U.S.

Also see, at Atlas Shrugs: Mainstream Media Discovers "Honor Killings"

Do we have an epidemic brewing?

Last night, as I was watching Fox News, waiting to hear about the NK missile, suddenly Geraldo looks up and says something to the effect, "What the hell's going on here?"

He proceeded to tell us that a man was found dead and his 5 children were also found dead in their home. He had killed his 5 children, then himself.

What the hell is going on here?

Is the economy a factor in recent shootings?
Recent incidents differ, but experts say there could be a trend.
By Daniel B. Wood | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the April 4, 2009 edition

Details continue to emerge from Binghamton, New York, where a gunman identified as Jiverly Voong, 41, barricaded the back door of the American Civic Association Friday morning, then went in the front door shooting at everyone in the room, killing 13 and then shooting himself.

Early reports say the gunman was deeply upset over being laid off and for being disrespected for not speaking English well.

That event, as well as three policemen wounded in a Pittsburgh shooting after responding to a domestic disturbance call – friends said that gunman was also upset about his recent firing – fit a larger pattern of mass killings which have seemed to proliferate since America's economic downturn, experts say. Forty-four people have died in a string of five such incidents in the past month, from Oakland, California to Alabama to North Carolina.

Monitor reporter Patrik Jonsson reported on this trend earlier this week.

Voong "had lost a job recently and was somewhat angry," Mayor Matthew Ryan told ABC's "Good Morning America." "He had language issues, didn't speak English that well, and was really concerned about his employment situation," Ryan said.

Police Chief Joseph Zikuski told NBC that the shooter had worked in Binghamton for Shop-Vac, which closed in November. And early reports claimed Voong had been laid off from IBM, although an IBM spokesman has denied the link. Henry Voong, Jiverly Voong' father, works there as a contractor.

Immigrant groups across the nation have been expressing sadness and concern about the Binghamton shootings, and mentioning the pressure of the down turned economy.

"Violence against vulnerable populations, including immigrants, is disturbingly becoming more common now that the economy is impacting us all," wrote Angelica Salas, executive director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) said in a statement Saturday.

Criminologists say other cultural factors could be at play as well – ranging from the possibility of shame and embarrassment for immigrants as well as the modern isolation of men in US society.

"Men in America tend to not have a support system outside work to get through hard times," says James Allan Fox, professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, and author of "Extreme Killing: Understanding Mass and Serial Murder. "Men rarely have friends outside work so when they lose their job they lose all the people that were around them and they feel abandoned."

More important, community doesn't just offer support but perspective, says Fox.

"Men also lose anyone who might give them a reality check on their attitude or behavior," he says, adding that they lose something as "simple as a buddy who could lean over and say, 'think again.'"

Fox and others are quick to point out that clusters of mass murders are not new. They happened in earlier decades. What stands in stark contrast to an earlier era such as the 50s and the 70s is a disintegration of neighborhoods and tight-knit communities.

"People today don't know their neighbors, don't know what they do and certainly don't know what to say if they lose their job," Fox says. He suggests that if people wonder what they can do in response to such extreme circumstances, they should consider reaching out to people they don't know and even "getting to know their neighbors."
Staff writer Gloria Goodale contributed to this report.



A list of the mass shootings during the past month. The number has now risen to 53:

March 10 Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people, including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy, across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.

March 21 Lovelle Mixon, 26, shot and killed four Oakland, Calif., police officers after a traffic stop. Mixon was killed in a shootout with SWAT officers.

March 29 Devan Kalathat, 42, shot and killed his two children and three other relatives, then killed himself in an upscale neighborhood of Santa Clara, Calif. Kalathat's wife was critically injured.

March 29 Robert Stewart, 45, shot and killed eight people at Pinelake Health and Rehab in Carthage, N.C., before a police officer shot him and ended the rampage.

April 3 41-year-old Jiverly Wong, shot and killed 13 people at a community center in Binghamton, N.Y., before apparently committing suicide.

April 4 Richard Poplawski, 23, kills 3 Pittsburgh officers in a shootout.

April 4 James Harrison, 34, apparently shot and killed his five children in Pierce County, WA, then killed himself.