When I heard about the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, I thought this is what it feels like to know that at any moment you can be a hashtag. This is what it feels like to know that someone can come in at any moment and open fire -- while you’re sitting at your desk, while you’re doing your work, while anything.
By Thursday evening, we learned from police that the man suspected of killing five people -- Jarrod Ramos -- had had a beef with the Capital Gazette for years.
Was Ramos -- after years of fighting with the paper over its reporting of a story about him -- listening to Milo Yiannopoulos two days ago, when he implored folks to “start gunning journalists down”?