April 20th, 2026
Yup. Every single one of ‘em. That y’all and shut ma mouth land. The Land of the Rising Gun.

Mass shootings in 2026

Incident DateStateCity Or CountyAddressVictims KilledVictims InjuredSuspects KilledSuspects InjuredSuspects ArrestedOperations
April 19, 2026LouisianaShreveport355 W 79th St82100N/A
March 22, 2026TexasAmarillo1901 NW 14th Ave44100N/A
February 28, 2026TexasEdinburg10500 block of Hwy 10742000N/A
February 10, 2026FloridaSarasota4822 Fallcrest Cir60100N/A
February 7, 2026TexasPlainview2700 block of Upchurch St40100N/A
January 23, 2026GeorgiaLawrenceville1031 Brook Ivy Ct40001N/A
January 9, 2026MississippiCedarbluff123 David Hill Rd60

April 20th, 2026
Another staggeringly obvious gun-loving loon wanders through no-gun-laws Louisiana drunk, getting arrested a lot, challenging people at gunpoint, telling do-nothing relatives he’s seriously fucked up…

.. and, once he reaches the breaking point he TOLD people he was reaching, he takes one of his guns (Louisiana is certainly not going to deprive violent insane gunnies of their guns) and murders eight children.

One of them was found on a roof, having tried to escape.

April 19th, 2026
‘“Repeated horrors like this don’t happen anywhere else but this country… [It is a] total moral failure.’ [Gavin] Newsom’s press office said the National Rifle Association ‘and their lackeys in Congress are complicit in this madness.’”

Ah, Shreveport. Ah, Louisiana. Insane massacrists go down as easy as a mint julep in ol’ Shreveport, Land of the Rising Gun.

Dominedominedomine let’s pray our little heads off.

Ahhhh. That was great.

Back to the pistol range.

April 19th, 2026
How to Picnic in America.

After last year’s shooting, Davis CA has prepared for its carefree outing with:

A fleet of drones

Extra police

Doubled event staff people

Increased penalties

Alcohol ban

No special event permits in the vicinity

Designated safety enhancement zones

April 15th, 2026
You can be among the wealthiest states in America, but if you’re stupid and corrupt, like Hawaii, this is the sort of thing that happens.

We’ve followed the hilarious university system in that state for years, but consider the legal system.

MAN ON SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR MURDER CHARGED WITH GUN-RELATED [OFFENSES] FOLLOWING NIGHTCLUB FIGHT

Yes the lad seems to have killed a couple of people, but the judge deemed this a minor sort of charge and released him with an ankle bracelet.

“ [A local attorney described] the state’s ankle monitor system as outdated and said it doesn’t have live tracking like the federal system.”

Judges that let accused killers go free; technology that doesn’t track them.

April 12th, 2026
The Fog of War in America’s Elementary Schools

A second grader brought a loaded gun to school in Swansea Mass., on a Friday, and showed it to schoolmates.

The principal knew of it and did nothing. He decided to wait until Monday.

Police got an anonymous tip on Monday and came to the school that day.

The armed student lied to the principal (who spoke to the student on Monday) and said he brought no gun of any kind to school.

The parents of the armed student lied to police about having firearms in the house.

After the police found five firearms in the house, some loaded, the father of the armed student said he forgot about having five weapons, and said that he was not licensed to carry.

The parents have been charged with “multiple firearms violations, plus two counts of reckless endangerment of a child.”

April 5th, 2026
Does Gloria have other armed and abandoned children?

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?

March 20th, 2026
The now-routine statement so insanely stupid as to have achieved Orwellian status.

“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.

March 19th, 2026
‘Kentucky’s gun laws are among the worst in the country, and the state’s gun death rate is above the national average.’

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.

March 18th, 2026
Another gun range suicide.

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.

March 11th, 2026
‘Suicides make up more than three-quarters of Lancaster County gun deaths.’

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.

March 3rd, 2026
Guilty! Ding Ding Ding!

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…

February 18th, 2026
Named his kid after a gun. Although at age 13 Colt was already obviously psychotic, he bought him an AR 15.

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.

February 16th, 2026
‘Agents seized the gator, a pistol and the marijuana, and booked Johnson with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a live alligator and possession of marijuana, the agency said.’

Nawlins.

February 16th, 2026
Yet another adorable doggy …

video.

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