How to Spot a Serious Gun-Crime Proposal

There was another massacre, this one in Midland and Odessa, Texas. As usual, tragedy was followed by stupidity.The New York Times, in its poetical mode, observed that the crime “clashed with the typically serene and dusty rural landscape of the region.” In reality, Odessa is the most dangerous city in Texas, with a murder rate about twice the national average. So much for “serene.” It is not particularly rural, either, though you pass through a good deal of rurality on th