NASHVILLE SHOOTING AFTERMATH
The Nashville police department yesterday released body camera footage of a group of officers searching through the halls of The Covenant School for the 28-year-old shooter who shot and killed six people Monday, including three children. The footage includes body camera videos from the perspective of two officers, Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo, who shot and killed the suspect on the second floor of the private Christian school. See footage here (warning—sensitive content).
Police also shared new details about the shooter, saying the former student had been under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder and had legally bought seven firearms from five local gun stores in recent years. Officials said the guns had been hidden in the suspect's home. Police also released surveillance videos (see here, warning—sensitive content), showing the shooter arriving in a silver Honda Fit, firing through the building's glass doors, and moving through the school heavily armed. The suspect's motive is still unclear.
NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTING
Three children and three adults were shot and killed yesterday after a 28-year-old shooter carrying two semiautomatic rifles and a handgun opened fire at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.
The suspect, Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender and was reportedly a former student, died after being shot by police responding to the scene at The Covenant School, which serves about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade. The victims were identified as aged 9, 60, and 61 (see here, via Twitter).
Officials say police received an initial call about the active shooter at 10:13 am CT. The suspect reportedly entered the school by firing through the glass doors of a first-floor side entrance before moving to the second floor, where two police officers from a five-member team opened fire, killing the suspect at 10:27 am (see timeline). The school did not have a public safety officer onsite.
Investigators said the suspect had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and left behind some writings. The suspect's motive is unclear. See more details from the police here (via Twitter).
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Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
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The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
