Director’s Note: The Fort Stewart Army Base shooting in Georgia yesterday reminded me of a handful of issues that, while not directly related to policy, illustrate why assimilation generally hasn’t worked very well and why public policy that accepts natural ethnic fault lines is the best option for maintaining peace and order.
First, you may also be wondering, what kind of name is Quornelius?
I asked our managing editor James Fulford, who, at VDARE, wrote extensively on, and came up with tags to identify stories like these such as Disgruntled Minority Massacre, Immigrant Mass Murder (not suitable in this case as there are no foreign countries that name their kids Quornelius), and Leaded Law.
Our conversation resulted in the article below.
(Mr. Fulford is also the genius who came up with the most memorable VDARE tag in my opinion: “Immigrants Committing Slavery.” But, that’s another story
Haitians (And Other Immigrants) And The Slavery They’re Still Committing In America
Recently journalist Andy Ngo tweeted:
The Fort Stewart shooting incident in Georgia is the kind of story very familiar to me.
5 soldiers injured in shooting at Fort Stewart in Georgia, Army sergeant in custody
A motive is not clear.
By Emily Shapiro and Luis Martinez
August 6, 2025, 4:24 PM
A U.S. Army sergeant allegedly shot and wounded five other soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia, using his personal handgun, officials said.
The shooting at the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area was reported at 10:56 a.m and the suspect, automated logistics Sgt. Quornelius Radford, was apprehended at 11:35 a.m., Fort Stewart said. All lockdown measures have since been lifted, Brig. Gen. John Lubas, the 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield commander, said at a news conference.
A motive is not clear, Lubas said, but the shooting involved the 28-year-old Radford’s co-workers and was at Radford’s “place of work.” He used a personal handgun, but it’s not clear how he brought it to his workplace, Lubas added.[More]
Quornelius Radford is not an immigrant—his name is the kind of name black Americans have been giving themselves in recent years to emphasize their separation from white American society. With mass immigration, the US Armed Forces are trying to integrate various foreigners into their ranks, but regular outbreaks of black violence (which have been going on, underreported, for years) show that they have been unable to integrate a population that’s been in America since 1619.
In spite of that, former Army Chief Of Staff George Casey (below) was heard to say, at the time of the 2009 Fort Hood Massacre by an unassimilated Muslim Major named Nidal Hasan in which Hasan fatally shot 13 Americans and injured more than 30, “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”
It’s reported that after injuring five people, this Radford was “tackled” by several soldiers, and disarmed. They may get the Soldier’s Medal, pictured, for peacetime gallantry.
But why did they need to tackle him? Why not shoot back? Well, the answer is that no one on an Army base has a loaded gun available to them unless they’re a criminal like Radford (who used his own firearm in this crime) or a terrorist like Hasan. This was true, by the way, even at bases in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Great War On Terror: see my 2012 article Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Unarmed American Soldiers Dying In Afghan “Green On Blue” Shootings, which explained that briefly, the reason for disarming soldiers is that the military is terrified of either a gun accident, or soldiers shooting someone they’re not supposed to shoot. They are more worried about this than they are about soldiers being attacked while unarmed. This is the same impulse that actuates civilian gun control, but it’s much, much, stupider.
There are two kinds of mass shooting: the kind like Virginia Tech or Fort Hood where the shooter, for whatever reason, has decided to become a kind of suicide commando and kill as many people as he can before they get him, and the random shooter who’s just angry with his fellow partygoers.
That second kind of gunman’s activity usually results in a lot more wounded than killed, and sometimes, as in this case, no one killed at all.
This is famously known as Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings:
Steve Sailer attributes this to the psychological differences between the two kinds of shooters (motivated and suicidal versus random recklessness) but I gave it a more detailed analysis in my 2017 article The “Leaded Law” And Mass Shootings—Poor Black Marksmanship Is Saving Lives.
But the fact that Quornelius Radford can shoot five people (their names and races have not been announced) without killing them says something about the failure of the multicultural Army so far, and also for the prospects of integrating today’s influx of Third World immigrants, given that America has had since 1619 to integrate Quornelius Radford and hasn’t succeeded.