A veteran who had a pistol when someone else started killing people in his university campus explains why he judged it was a bad idea to try to find and kill the shooter.

Several sheriff's deputies waited outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while the killing was going on, and did not go in.

I don't know enough to judge whether they acted wrongly, but this is more demonstration that having some armed and trained people in the vicinity is no guaranteed protection.

A new lobbying group opposes right-to-repair laws by pretending that modification of products by their owners would give them worse security than they already have.

As Bruce Schneier points out, most of them are made with such bad security that they couldn't be worse.

Amnesty International reports that the bully is leading a world-wide move towards authoritarian rule and contempt for human rights.

Texan Ricardo Palacios took down a remote-transmitting camera that he found on his land, placed there by persons unknown without his permission. Now he is suing various suppression agencies that threaten to arrest him for that.

North Atlantic right whales are headed for extinction. This year, it seems there were no births.