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Annapolis is Everywhere!

Annapolis, Maryland. A small city on the shores of Chesapeake Bay In many ways, it is just one of your typical small American cities, and apart from the US Naval Academy located there, has little to set it apart from myriads of similarly sized cities between the Eastern Seaboard and the Pacific Ocean. Yet, on June 28th, 2018, this city was suddenly and horribly thrown into the harsh, unblinking stare of global publicity, when a lone gunman entered the offices of Capitol Gazette Communications, publisher of the local daily newspaper The Capitol, and began opening fire on the journalists, killing five of them in the process. The gunman was later arrested. It now appears that the attacker, Jarred Warren Ramos, was motivated by personal reasons, namely supposed “defamation” by The Capitol with regards to his guilty plea in a criminal harassment case in 2011. Following the initial report, he had bombarded the company with a plethora of threats, and repeated lawsuits, all of which had bee...