A 34-year-old mother has been charged after her 8-year-old son allegedly got ahold of her loaded handgun and took it to his elementary school.

Gloria Luster, 34, of Kent [Ohio], pleaded not guilty to a first-degree misdemeanor count of endangering children …

Municipal court records show Luster was also charged in September with a first-degree misdemeanor count of child endangering after another one of her children, a 2-year-old girl, was found wandering in the dark of a parking lot outside Luster’s apartment complex.

A complaint states Luster “did not know the child had left, where she had gone to, or how long she had been gone.”

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When does Child Protective Services decide Gloria’s a bit too much?

“At no time [during which a 12 year old student brandished a loaded gun at school] were students or staff in danger,” Christine Stephens, a Redlands Unified School District spokeswoman, wrote in a news release that detailed how employees handled the situation.

Carl Baker, a Redlands police spokesman, wrote in a text message: “The gun was loaded and capable of being fired.”

Stephens, asked by a Southern California News Group reporter to clarify her comment, wrote in an email: “When we stated that ‘At no time were students or staff in danger,’ we were referring to the fact that the situation was quickly identified, contained, and managed by school administrators, District Safety, and law enforcement.”

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Oh. OK.

Which is an abstraction. What’s it like on the ground?

It’s teenagers with big guns shooting at each other in the middle of busy streets in the middle of the day. Bullets fly everywhere – at houses, into cars, into people.

‘Several residents said a lot of the violence is being done by teenagers.’ Really young gunnies are really scary, and they have many years of shooting ahead of them.

Lots of suicide in the US – and lots of guns, and zillions of places to perform the act.

Above all, America features huge numbers of friendly neighborhood gun ranges.

There’s really nothing the ranges can do about it. They’ve conceived the absolutely perfect place to blow your head off.

Nationally it’s 58% or so, which means Lancaster has a real problem. It’s mainly old guys with guns, and if you toss in alcoholism and divorce the suicide basket is pretty easy to identify. But the laws that help you do something about it – safe storage, extreme risk protection orders – ain’t there, and state gunnies will make sure they don’t get passed.

Jury took all of two hours to find the fucker guilty of all charges.

The jury deliberated only about two hours before concluding that the [mass murderer’s] father, Colin Gray, 54, was guilty of more than two dozen charges, including second- degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, stemming from the attack on Sept. 4, 2024, at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga. Two students and two teachers were killed.

I mean, go ahead and love guns to bits, America. But recognize that the national obsession has begun to spawn hereditary hoplophilia, and make sure you put our butchering broods behind bars.

Gray’s son had a history of violence, self-harm, and severe panic attacks, prosecutors said, and he allegedly told his father he was hearing voices. Still … Gray bought his [14 year old] son a SIG Sauer M400 assault-style rifle…

Only in America would the outcome of Colt’s father’s second degree murder trial be in doubt. His enthusiastic abetting of his son’s mass murder is as obvious as the fact that his son would commit one. He should get at least fifteen years behind bars.

With him and the Crumbleys safely locked away, maybe other gunnies molding their own wee shooters will think twice about AK47s for Xmas.

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Reminder: Get ready for the Gun as Self-Consuming Artifact trial! This is the case where the parents gave the code to their gun case to their psychotic 15 year old and he killed the whole family. Except for one kid who got shot but managed to crawl out of a window.

Nawlins.

… video.

UD’s favorite part, always, is when we start to hear from the lawyers.

… that schools shot up by teen – and pre-teen – shits are all around her, even in her affluent ‘thesdan world. Wootten High – which Les UDs routinely drive by on their way to UD’s sister’s place – just had one of its students almost killed by another student with a gun. Right there in the school and all.

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UPDATE: Same asshole pointed his gun at another student in the hallway earlier the same day! But she didn’t report it! Routine hallway interaction?

And listen. No one’s gonna be surprised when we find out that the school was well aware the shooter was a way risky person… Parents have GOT to get mad about the fact that the school hadn’t expelled him.

Why do public schools feel impelled to expose their students to lethal risk by letting shooters attend?

They’ve long held the national Number One spot for murders, but when murders happen, they mobilize a whole nothing to see here protocol. Even the NYT plays along, insisting on how isolated and rare a recent massacre at a restaurant was, its neighborhood “hushed” with shock.

Toward the end of the piece the writer does allow as how the restaurant “is within walking distance of the city’s French Quarter … — the site of an attack that killed 14 people a year ago,” but most of the article maunders on about the restaurant’s history – strikingly irrelevant to a mass shooting. Nowhere does the writer note that this sort of carnage is something of a banality in gun-loving LA.

Some witnesses said he said nothing. There are some that say he made a barking noise.

How easy, in the USA, for an absolute lunatic to get a gun and kill Brown U. students and an MIT professor.

The motive is also easy: Loser Kills Winner. Graduated from the same school in Portugal as a man who went on to lead a lab at MIT, while this guy went nowhere. Ditto for the Brown students – he dropped out of Brown; they were succeeding there. All had to die.

[The economics instructor] said he hid behind a desk with about 20 … students, and that one was shot in the leg.

About 20 other students ran out of the room’s side doors, he said. The students who were sitting in the middle row had a harder time escaping the gunfire. “The students in the middle were impacted the most,” he said. “Many of them were lying there and they were not moving. I have no idea how many.”

No one knows much of anything yet, but there’s apparently been an active shooter on campus for some time, and there may be multiple victims.

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Two dead, nine critical. So far.

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‘Gov. Dan McKee of Rhode Island described the shooting as “an unthinkable nightmare”…’ How tone deaf can you be. Not only thinkable — same old same old.

Yes, same old, same old.