A tale of two massacres: Pittsburgh and Hebron
NOVANEWS
By Lawrence Davidson
A massacre of Jews
On the morning of 28 October 2018 Robert Bowers walked into a suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, synagogue filled with worshippers. He was armed with an assault rifle and several handguns. Bowers proceeded to kill 11 people and wound six. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.
Bowers is a 46-year-old truck driver who lived alone in a small apartment in the Baldwin section of Pittsburgh. Though described by neighbours as “normal”, Bowers was clearly a loner. “He kept to himself and neighbours never saw him with visitors.” Posting an online picture of his three “Glock”-brand handguns, he referred to them as “my glock family.”
His social life may have been largely restricted to social media, and there he freely expressed him...