Violence in the United States has been increasing. The country is now seeing a return to the violence-ridden landscapes of the ’90s. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2020 violent crimes data revealed that homicide rates are skyrocketing and are at the highest rate in more than 25 years, increasing by at least 20 to 25…
Homicide Rates Hit 25-year High; These Are Some Biological Factors Behind It
What Is the Role of Internet and Violent Video Games in a Generation of Aggressive and Violent Youths
On July 4th, 2022, a man in Illinois took to the rooftop and fired rounds of bullets on the Independence Day parade participants, killing 5 people with 2 more dying later from their wounds and injuring even more. The man, soon identified by the police, is Robert Crimo III, aged 21. Robert Crimo III poses…
‘Black Hole For Human Rights’: Tit-for-tat Killings Increase in Cameroon
The protracted civil war between Cameroon’s army and Anglophone militants fighting for a breakaway state produced a new wave of violence in recent months. Forty-nine patients narrowly escaped death on June 8 when unidentified gunmen attacked and burnt the Mamfe District Hospital in the crisis-hit Southwest Region that serves more than 85,000 people. Both the…
Man Who Crashed Car Into Trump Store Had Pro-Antifa Band Tattoo
An anti-Trumper who allegedly crashed his car into a New England For Trump store over the weekend has the logo of the hard core Pro-Antifa band Ministry tattooed on his arm. Sean Flaherty, a 46-year-old father from Raynham, Massachusetts, also has an anti-Trump bumper sticker on the 2015 Volkswagen Jetta that video shows he drove…
Nigerian Terrorists Fire at Villagers From Helicopter, Eyewitnesses Say
It was a sunny Sunday in Maikori, a small farming town in the south of Nigeria’s Kaduna state. Rev. Denis Sani, the pastor of the evangelical church Winning All as well as a leader of a 50-man civilian watch unit, was giving a sermon. A few minutes before noon on June 5, Sani got news…
Nigerian Terrorists Fire at Villagers From a Helicopter, Eye Witnesses Say
It was a sunny Sunday morning in Maikori, a small farming town in the south of Kaduna state, in Nigeria’s northwest region. Rev. Denis Sani, pastor of the Evangelical church Winning All as well as a leader of a 50-man civilian watch unit, was giving a sermon. A few minutes before noon on June 5,…
South Africans Fighting Their Government to Keep Guns, as Violence Continues to Soar
JOHANNESBURG—South Africans are clamouring for guns in the midst of soaring violent crime, while their government tries to pass legislation to outlaw ownership of firearms for self-defense. “A government is supposed to protect its people. A government is supposed to care about the welfare of citizens,” said Dave Alfonso, outside a firearms dealership in Johannesburg,…
Sticks, Stone, and Worse
Commentary Most people are familiar with the phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The incendiary rhetoric that has engulfed our political system has demonstrated that especially violent words can cause hurt, even death, to others. The most recent example is a California man who showed up last…
Nigeria Battered by Rash of Blasphemy Murders
A growing wave of blasphemy attacks by Islamic extremists in Nigeria has stirred anger and threatened to divide Africa’s most populous nation. Two gruesome mob lynchings over alleged blasphemy on May 12 and June 4 have roiled the country and stirred calls for global action. Close to one dozen people have been killed for alleged…
Nigerian Police Stand By as Christian Student Is Stoned to Death
A so-called blasphemy murder of a Christian student in Sokoto, Nigeria May 12 was attended by scores of armed, uniformed policemen who did not intervene, according to eyewitnesses who spoke to The Epoch Times. One eyewitness, who asked for anonymity to escape government retaliation, said that at least 50 uniformed policemen, including 6 officers of…
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