… in Palm Beach.

Johnson’s [extensive violent] conduct was … flagged for an Extreme Risk Protection Order, which would have meant Johnson had to turn over his guns. Additional evidence review found insufficient evidence to file the ERPO.

An evidence review didn’t find sufficient blahblah. A human being reviewing the evidence didn’t find sufficient etc. Why put this sentence in the passive voice? A human being looked at an asshole with decades of gun violence on his record and said Eh. No biggie.

And you know why? You know why decades of judges and ‘officials in various county and city agencies’ didn’t take this mass killer’s guns away? Because guns in America have the same status as a pair of scissors. Everyone owns multiples of them and yeah they can cut you or whatever but basically at this point they’re just routine domestic objects. Remember When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns? Now it’s When guns are everywhere, everyone has one. Review boards don’t even see them, if you know what I mean. Handguns are boring little geegaws, tricked out nothings all over the house and the car and who the fuck cares.

You want to know how this country gets its amazing kill rate? That’s how.

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Oh and drop “shocking” from what I quoted in this post’s title, if I may make an editorial suggestion. No one even remembers it happened 48 hours later because it’s been abundantly superseded by other atrocities.

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Those against releasing [extreme violence] data [on prospective tenants] believe it will be too restrictive for people finding a place to live.

BWAHAHAHAHA

A hotshot named Dan Ariely

For decades has been kind of smelly

His results don’t repeat

Onaccounta he cheats

And there’s more where that came from —whoa, Nellie!

Enraged, he returns to the scene of his humiliation with his Glock, blows everyone away, and, when police get too close, shoots his head off.

It’s a classic American story, and one wonders if there’s any way it might have a less bloody outcome…

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I mean, qua story it’s no good at all, since it offers no suspense: Obviously the dude will storm some location or other and kill everybody. Anyone can see that. It’s why frightened people are always throwing him out. Duh.

One judge after another has been letting him off with a couple of anger management courses, which, given his manifest danger to the public and – in the latest story – his residing in a state that actually has Extreme Risk laws – affords a bit of comic relief, I guess, but otherwise it’s a common, grim, predictable, and dullsville little tale.

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The only way it can end without multiple bodies strewn in the hallway is the judges. I mean, it seems to me it comes down to the judges. If they refuse to put this person away in some institution or other for quite a stretch of time – and this latest guy had already done more than enough to earn years off the streets – then the story plays out the way the story plays out.

We used to be close, but things got complicated and we lost touch. Our two families took a spectacular trip together to Santorini back when.

Scott’s Wallace Global Fund has always supported anti-FGM activity in Africa, and now he’s made a very high-profile contribution.

Today, a catalytic new fund supporting the frontline movement to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) was launched at the landmark Justice for Girls convening, a gathering of 150 movement leaders from 36 countries. Seeded with $14 million from Wallace Global Fund, Her Horizon Fund is the largest known philanthropic commitment backing the frontline organizations working to end FGM/C.

… “My mother, Gordie Wallace, devoted her life to ending FGM/C, beginning almost 50 years ago, when governments, UN organizations, and private donors were all ignoring the issue,” said H. Scott Wallace, co-chair of Wallace Global Fund’s Board of Directors. “She was inspired by the passion, courage, and commitment of the FGM/C movement and its frontline leaders, a focus that has always guided Wallace Global Fund’s grantmaking.”

Warren County [Iowa] District Court Judge Michael Jacobsen overturned the rezoning [for shooting] in August after about 20 owners of property around the gun club sued. Jacobsen said the decision was “illegal, void and of no force or effect” and restored the land to A1 zoning.

The county’s ordinance requires them to seek voluntary compliance first. In addition to the cease-and-desist letter, the county zoning office has been notified that they continue to receive complaints. Next, a citation can be filed … followed by “full-on litigating.”

No one from the gun club has responded to requests for comment.

[D]eputies with the Delaware County [OK] Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call … where a caller reported that [Colton] Crane had a gun and could be heard by dispatchers screaming in the background. When deputies arrived on scene, Crane was walking down the road with a baby.

They say he was unsteady on his feet, had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech. He admitted to authorities he started drinking once he got home from work and argued with family members.

Court documents said Crane admitted to kicking in a door, pointing a firearm at a person and firing. Officials say the bullet was one foot from the victim and went through a wall. He then proceeded past family members, grabbed the baby and walked out of the residence after lowering the firearm.

UD covers fraud on this blog, but is madly selective, since everyone’s always stealing everything.

Here’s one that caught her eye – the president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) local 2419 – which represented 500 federal employees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – simply stole every single penny.

 [E]vidence presented at trial established that there had not even been a meeting of local 2419 since 2020, and that local 2419 ran out of money and went into receivership in 2022.

In this instance, it’s not so much that she bought a $7,400 massage chair with union funds – that purchase pales beside the standard embezzlement package of a condo on a golf course plus a Cadillac Escalade IQL. It’s that she just went ahead and took everything until she had to go to jail for taking everything.

The mayor’s all shucks geez ain’t that bad I mean really? But the numbers don’t lie, and if you’re topping sordid ol’ Nawlins you know you’re doing something special…

Frinstance, place like Alexandria gets em started young. Guy with his ten year old kid in the car gets pulled over by the police and hides his loaded gun. On the child.

When officers attempted to search the child, [Sheldon Doral] Franklin refused to give permission. Authorities said the child also refused officers’ commands and held a bag of chips against his leg.

An officer attempting to move the child’s arms felt what appeared to be a handgun concealed between the bag and the child’s leg, according to prosecutors. Franklin then ran from officers but was quickly apprehended.

Officers recovered a loaded .40-caliber Glock 23 handgun equipped with a device known as a switch that allowed the weapon to fire automatically, prosecutors said.

Glock ‘n Chips!

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This is what “precocious” means in Louisiana.

Yes indeed. We see every day what a golden age of gun ownership looks like. Take a bow!

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First stop of the NRA upcoming national elections/tour bus is Montana, where folks will gather to thank the organization for their state’s suicide rate. We’re Number One!

In February 2011, fashion designer John Galliano made antisemitic and racist remarks to patrons at a Paris café, including yelling “I love Hitler,” telling individuals “your mothers, your forefathers” would be “gassed.”

There were actually two – recorded – instances of Galliano screaming this stuff in cafes, and UD feels certain there are more, unrecorded.

Once caught on tape, Galliano went the Mel Gibson route, whining about how his many drug and alcohol addictions make him a bad boy. But Youth Wants to Know: How do you be the head of Dior and a totally out of control addict screaming Hitler shit in cafes? UD understands how you can be the head of Dior and a murderous anti-semitic drunk … times being what they are in France… But if you are so unwary as to get filmed shrieking about gassing Jews? That’s what’s running Dior?

Anyway, the Met was well on its way to rewarding Haute Hitler with a solo show, but then a bunch of New York Jews decided this was all a bit much.

A new house is going up next door (asking price 2 mill), and he saw me photographing the spontaneously combusting zucchini (we didn’t plant it; my theory is that Munro Leaf, author of Ferdinand the Bull and last owner of our house, did, and that the area was too shady for them to thrive… until the construction guys took down some big ol’ trees). The beautiful yellow flowers are out.

These Old West shootouts! Keep the guns coming.

But did they drag his body to the roof, pour petrol on it, and burn it to a crisp? There’s a right and a wrong way to do things.

If there’s Hebrew writing visible on your car, you can expect a friendly salute and sieg heil from one of our employees!