Funny how the club has no comment and the local press doesn’t use the word. Everybody knows there’s no better place – duh – to do the deed than a gun club.
Funny how the club has no comment and the local press doesn’t use the word. Everybody knows there’s no better place – duh – to do the deed than a gun club.
Not if you keep shooting it to death.
‘Yet another shooting here…’
‘Nice place to get lit up and by lit up I mean shot…’
‘At the end of the night end up getting locked inside for a short time because something was going on outside the club. However, I will say their security guard Mike was phenomenal and great. Helped me get my friend into our car safely…’
Patron reviews say it all, don’t they? But no one in Denver gives a shit, so the POPOPOPOPOPOP keeps popping along.
Tucson’s mayor, surveying her city’s bloody streets after another mundane massacre, wonders why morons with magnums still rule her world.
And, once comfortably assembled, it can comfortably blow out your brain.
Indeed the ease and comfort of gun suicide is one reason its incidence in this country is soaring.
You can even be a psychologically fragile 18 year old and all you have to do is send away for your very own suicide kit — no questions asked! — and bingo you’re out of the running. Too easy…
Whether hookah or biker, lounge or breastaurant, the best way to haul out all your guns and kill people is to pack into one of these epicenters of the violent mentally retarded. Country music and cheap beer provide the atmospherics, the specifically American gestalt, for the ripping open of more tattooed flesh than you can shake a stick of numbing cream at.
A biker bar in Connecticut is the latest abattoir; on Facebook (see this post’s title) a knowledgeable local explains why she stopped going to the place.
Gated folk never seem to figure out that gates keep trouble in.
As in — everything depends, don’t it, on who lives in the armed camp?
Say you’ve got a violent psychotic teenager sharing a big ol’ mansion with ma and pa. Put their heavily guarded utopia in Texas, where breast feeders are issued Berettas. One night the crazed babe (private Christian school, where he played football; off to Texas Tech next year — or that was the plan before he started shooting neighbors) had his big psychotic break — or maybe he just smoked a shitload of meth — and stripped off his clothes and staggered among the statelies, armed and hallucinating.
PowpowpowpowhuhwhereamI? Kind of thing.
WheredIgetthisGlockohyeahmaandpahavefiftyguns. Kind of thing.
Well the cops killed him after he shot at them too, and the thing’s getting more press than your routine everyday Texas gun death onaccounta there’s a good video of it, plus it’s rich white folks and all.
Remember the Humistons. Only there the shooter was fifteen.
“Is Hilton Head the new Myrtle Beach?” one commenter wrote under an Island Packet Facebook post about the shooting. Myrtle Beach has the highest violent crime rate on South Carolina’s coast and third-highest in the state overall, according to FBI data. Many islanders fear Hilton Head’s natural beauty and tranquility could give way to overdevelopment, traffic and crime.
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You think being hoity toity keeps you from being South Carolina? You’re the ones who want among the weakest gun laws in the country, so your beach is gonna be just as shot up as trashy Myrtle.
Maybe try electing a legislature that doesn’t have shit for brains.
ELLSWORTH COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) – The parents of a small child who, investigators said, shot and killed two siblings with an unsecured gun at home in Brookville face charges in the case.
Wonder what kind of weapon he had!!?
This classic southern oath has been transformed in our time to ‘What in tarnishion,’ as folks down there worry that the daily blood bath is – to quote Dothan Alabama commissioner Dave Stock – beginning to “tarnish the image of our city.”
Ol’ Dave worries in particular about Dothan, but y’all know it’s the whole bloody state. Bama by some measures is America’s gunniest, bloodiest, state. As in why (reads a recent headline) Does Alabama have more Gun Deaths than New York?
It’s fun to follow what folks say about blood bursting everywhere in Bama (A related transformation: Not Stars Fell on Alabama, but Brains Dripped on Alabama), folks down there being real dumb and all. One guy, asked why insane people shouldn’t be kept away from guns, explains that in the olden days ifn you were nuts they might could put you in a mental hospital. Damn sight better now you got ‘em runnin round with AK47s.
Ol’ Dave notes sagely that more cops would be good cepn problem there is would you wanna police a town where your chance of getting injured or kilt on the job is as high as the thirteen year old gunnies all over the streets? You wouldn’t want to introduce any gun laws, so that means that — citing the Buddhists — Bama must learn to sit with tarnishment.
Hey, it’s America. Killing people is how you enjoy yourself. Specially on the Fourth! We do know how to put on a show.
Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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