Richmond Va. already has a shockingly high gun homicide rate; the good citizens of that city have long since proven their brilliance at getting guns and shooting them at people they want to kill (often turns out to be everyone). Folks from six to sixty are out there bangbangbanging.
UD therefore wonders whether the city needs yet another massive shooting range (these are only the best ten local ranges).
The annual Richmond murder rate has dipped a bit in the last couple of years, so maybe it’s as simple as Richmond not wishing a further drop in the rankings.
But it’s the best place to die! Especially if you’re a child.
“Representative Tillman, Sellers, and Hendrix, we went to the Speaker. We begged the Speaker, ‘Listen, Birmingham is a blood bath every day. Can we try to move this Glock switch bill?’”
How legislation gets done in Bama.
‘America’s gun violence undermines the legitimacy of its efforts to challenge other countries’ treatment of their own citizens.‘
Meaning: No one in a position to do something here cares that we regularly slaughter our schoolchildren, so where do we get off lecturing other countries on good behavior?
Plus we’re exporting our bloody gunlove to the rest of the world.
“I’ve been [working in Myrtle Beach] since 1988,” curfew supporter and business owner Chris Walker said Tuesday. “A lot of things have changed, but just having brazen shootouts on our street, that’s not what I signed up for.”
… Walker owns an ice cream store, two coffee shops, a haunted house and some parking lots in downtown Myrtle Beach. On weekends, he has four security guards at $27 an hour on patrol. He also has 80 cameras and said they have recorded “things that you see on video games” by people who “have no respect for human life, and that’s the sad state of where we are right now.”
I cover a lot of these, and a lot of them happened most recently on and around July 4, but the basic point is that mass shooters keep shooting up our crowd events: parades, fireworks displays, rallies, high school graduations, sports events etc., etc. I think the great symbol of this social movement will be the 2017 Las Vegas Harvest Music Festival massacre (‘1,000 rounds, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413 others. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867.’), but that mad motiveless killer’s death toll will inevitably be surpassed by another person who for no reason at all wants to kill everybody.
But it’s the smaller stories, the daily stories, you’re missing, and that’s too bad because the death of American public events is happening all around us, small story by small story. You can find gobs of them on this blog, like the decision yesterday by the town of Pahrump (not far from Las Vegas) to suspend “Movies in the Park … until further notice,” because a crowd can’t gather in Pahrump without people shooting at everyone. Movies in the Park becomes Mossbergs in the Park and that’s the end of the matter.
A house burnt to a crisp by a flare gun! Hundreds of bullets in all directions shatter the night! Happy Fourth!
Doesn’t it have people who monitor online crowd event activity?
Is the place asleep?
Does it have a death wish?
Its poor police chief still thinks this is about babysitting. He needs to be fired and replaced by someone who understands the gravity of the situation.
Yeah, well. Everyone’s kind of expecting gunplay, so when you announce an active shooter from the stage — even if turns out to be only a fight (unpleasant enough , but unlikely to rip out your family’s internal organs) — the whole place stampedes away.
And how many people are then going to turn to their terrified kids and say Okay coast is clear let’s go have some fun!!!! ?
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of guns, University Diaries lands us, tonight, in adorable Hidden Springs, Idaho, an Ada County planned community way out in the foothills of some mountain. Hidden Springs sits way out there all by itself, neat farmhouse style homes in pristine nature, and who can blame it for boasting of its many amenities?
But nowhere on its website will you find disclosure about gunfire from an illegal shooting range just down the road a tad.
For that you have to consult the local press which, in a series of articles, has followed the range owner’s belief that the “government” (whatever that is) has no power whatsoever over my private property, fuck it, and if I want to charge people hither and yon to fire their guns on my private property any old time I can fucking well do it and don’t come at me with shit like permitting applications and public hearings.
In response to complaints from Hidden Springs folks, the range’s owner says “residents shouldn’t be surprised to hear gunfire because the discharge of firearms in rural Ada County is common.” Suck it up MAGA world the noise I’m making is a drop in the noise bucket of all the daily bangbang here see and you know it. Live by the gun or move away.
I don’t wanna be around when the inevitable (cough) ‘visit’ from the local police happens… I’m thinking Ruby Ridge…
… Same old pints of blood all over the pavement!
‘The same block was also the scene of a mass shooting in November 2022, when the same nightclub was known as Hush Lounge. One person was killed and three others wounded after a group that had been thrown out of Hush started fighting.
Police shut down the Hush nightclub after that shooting, and Artis Lounge later opened in the same location.‘
But bring it on!!
BamaCarry Inc., an organization advocating for gun rights, announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the city of Selma for the detainment and removal of one of its members who carried a gun into a “gun-free zone.”
“This is Alabama—not New York City,” [said the group’s president].
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Datz right yall! BamaCarry is enraged that a city that’s not New York — not sure what they mean, since per capita there’s much more shooting in Selma than NY — should have any gun laws. They’re going to keep carrying in gun free zones, and they’re going to sue sue sue, because the people of Selma deserve an absolutely open forum for future mass killings.
The [police] chief … worked a shift on April 6 and observed a man, who had been in a fight, walking down the street with an AR-15. [The chief] pulled him aside.
“I was like, ‘why are you walking back with a rifle in your hands? You know, the police could have shot you. Someone else could have shot you.’ And he just said, ‘It’s my right to have a gun. I’m not hurting anyone.’ … While I was standing and talking to him, I noticed the outline of another firearm in his waistband. I seized that; thus I was subpoenaed to testify today [on] a charge of a concealed weapon.”
Brave police chief! But get a job somewhere else. Richmond’s a mess, and it’s trying to kill everybody. Know why huge numbers of Richmond police are leaving the force?
“I have worked this [city’s] most violent neighborhoods for 18 years. I have never in my career seen people with guns in their hands confronting police officers. I personally observed a man with an AK pistol in his hand waving it around, saying we couldn’t stop him because he only has 20 rounds in the magazine,” [Anthony] Catoggio wrote in the email, which was obtained by CBS 6 through a public records request.
He added, “What are we gonna do when [there’s] an accidental discharge and the whole crowd opens fire? The chief will give an officer’s family a nicely folded flag and be like, sorry we have no idea who killed your loved one because there [were] 100 cartridge casings.”
Whoa. The police chief’s talking about “stricter laws surrounding guns.” That’s crazy talk! He’s out of a job soon. This is fucking America. In America we have crowds of drunk mentally retarded AR-15 shooters waiting for a little shove, a little pat, a little bit of guff, to set off the whole fireworks display.
Only in Texas, mes petites. Only. Texas.
Killeen Police Department data … shows at least 57 service calls made to Club Krush’s address since January 1, including 22 criminal incident reports tied to aggravated assault, weapons investigations, and narcotics trafficking.
Klub Krush would be better, but okay let’s go with Club Krush. Round it off to sixty calls to the police in six months. Plus, as they used to put it back in thirteenth century Texas, sumer is icumen in, y’all.
Sample review:
[One star] “My friend died here.”
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The club, already under scrutiny after a separate shooting incident in March, confirmed the death of a man identified only as “Lil Fred” in their statement on Instagram. The post offered condolences to the victim’s family and noted that the venue had “cut ties” with several employees due to what it called “bad work actions.” The club also pledged to increase security moving forward.
Bwahahahahaha now I don’t want y’all ever to wonder what they mean by Don’t Mess With Texas.…