… Glocker!
Cuz it’s in super-affluent Bethesda? That doesn’t keep its vicinity from being all shot up. The four people involved will turn out to be (I predict) Walter Johnson students representing warring gangs, or hey maybe a few guys had a bit of an argument over lunch and they took it and their guns (you don’t think WJ students carry weapons?) outside, where they had at it.
If I’m right, it’s so disgusting that WJ administrators, who will turn out to know about some of these shits, allowed them to continue to attend the school.
… bring out the big guns!
Good ol’ Myrtle Beach.
UD will never understand how people carry on their person five guns, magazines, and ammo. Or more! How do you do it? Is weaponry falling off of you as you walk? Do you sound all metallic?
16 year old high school students in Arizona sell guns to the nice men in Sinaloa.
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For El Flaco, 18, the path to gun dealing began shortly after he started high school. He was 14.
Owning a gun, he said, was extremely common among fellow students at his high school. Boys posted photographs of themselves posing with pistols on Instagram and TikTok. Some brought the firearms to school, leaving them locked inside their cars during class and flaunting them after school, he said. Sometimes they brought them into school, he said.
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From the NYT reporter in the comments section:
One of the most striking things I encountered while reporting the story was just how deeply embedded gun culture is in Arizona, and how much it shapes and influences these teenagers’ choices, along with the sheer availability of firearms and how easily they can obtain high-caliber weapons, through both legal and illegal means.
When they tell you your kid has to get off a car (there he is in red), you pull out your gun and threaten to kill them.

The last time this happened, the shooter was six years old. Now a shooter more than twice that age has gone and done it again.
Given this latest shooter’s advanced age, I doubt the story will get much play. An armed six year old would-be murderer is much more newsworthy than an armed thirteen year old would-be murderer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Abby_Zwerner
https://abcnews.com/US/13-year-custody-allegedly-shooting-middle-school-teacher/story?id=136820476
Yeah, usually they’re, like, successive. Over a few days.
‘Fear brings people to the [firearms use] classroom, and the course gives them new reasons to be afraid.’
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It’s how you get Billings Man.
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From comments on the article:
I don’t think I should be eating in Olive Garden and some young guy comes in with a semi on his belt.
I own guns and brought my son up to be comfortable around guns. … One day a year ago, in a terrible state of despondency, he used one of them to take his life. I have struggled to understand whether I had a role in his suicide.
Guns are not designed to protect you. They’re designed to kill you.
Gee, even in Montana they’re failing to see the adorableness of people dandling Second Amendment doodads on their knees.
Parents in Billings are all ooh ooh cuz a nut across the street from their kids’ elementary school stomps about heavily armed in front of his house. Montana being Montana the dude – even though once a felon! – is free to finger his guns in public. And I dunno why, but even that state’s gun lovers are scared shitless by a totally dangerous asshole aiming large weapons at their kids’ school all day.
They’re demanding someone official do something – but they’re the ones who voted to have the country’s worst gun laws. So enjoy.
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.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
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Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
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Money Law
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Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
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Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
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Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
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