I had meant to note yesterday that the gunman slain in the Discovery Channel building yesterday was unhappy, among others, about programs featuring many children, such as “19 and Counting,” featuring Arkansas’s Duggar family. The gunman wanted programs encouraging sterilization and infertility.

40/29 News spoke to Jim Bob Duggar today who told us the family’s publicist was in the building yesterday during the incident and was evacuated.

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