Are you actually surprised that, for hours now, what seems to be a group of heavily armed snipers has been killing firefighters who were responding to a brush fire on an Idaho mountain? Can it be possible you don’t know that the state of Idaho teems with violent lunatics who have organized themselves into mountain-dwelling militias?

When it’s finally over (could be a long time; they probably have molotov cocktails too) our current president will announce that there were fine people on both sides.

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So national and international news are lighting up with this story about an America where organized, heavily armed people are as we speak ambushing and killing a group of firefighters trying to put out what could become a large blaze.

This is only a remarkable event if you don’t know about the Idaho militias. This particular story might not be about a militia, but unfolding events aren’t out of line with what we know has established itself up in this northern region of the state: Multiple paranoid highly armed militarized essentially terrorist outposts.

This is the state with the worst gun laws in the country, which makes it irresistible to our native terror class. The state won’t/can’t do anything about degenerates who hate everybody stockpiling the latest deadliest weapons.

A few years ago some of the Idaho militias got themselves riled up about something and there was

a tense stretch of nights when armed vigilantes and Second Amendment supporters converged on [a] city’s quaint downtown.

It’s legal to openly carry guns in Idaho. But even here, in one of the nation’s most conservative states, some were alarmed at what they saw as intimidation.

“These were people in full camo fatigues, with AR-15s, multiple clips,” said Shelby Rognstad, the mayor of Sandpoint. “These people looked like they were pulled off the streets of Afghanistan and ready for war.“

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Two dead, at least eleven injured, and a dead shooter found. It could all have been the work of one madman, but no one’s saying yet.

Wow, I guess the Murder Beach assistant police chief’s remark managed to slip by the South Carolina state censors. He actually said something negative about guns.

For future reference, and to stay out of trouble, the spokesperson needs to work within the following guidelines for official South Carolina statements after the next gun bloodbath.

You MAY refer to

youth violence. vaguely

our young people who are bored because they don’t have enough healthy activities in their lives

the importance of strong families

the resilience of Myrtle Beach

the speed and efficiency of the police

our thoughts and prayers for loved ones of the latest fatality/fatalities

You MAY NOT refer to

guns, in any imaginable context, ever.

Or so they say. Easier to hear them while you walk the boardwalk, where last night a guy was shot to death.

Murder Beach. The sort of resort you get when everyone has a gun.

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Voice of the people, some of whom sagely point out that plenty of other American locations are bloodbaths so why pick on Dirty Myrtle. Others note that many of the killers are out of towners, as if this makes any difference.

One guy uploads a film he took while slowly driving along the main tourist drag on a bright warm day recently. Pretty much no one there. Dangerous/threatening afternoon and evening. Curfews are no solution.

And here’s how you get to Myrtle Beach:

South Carolina has weak gun laws—missing the vast majority of the 50 key policies—and suffers one of the highest rates of gun homicides in the nation. Despite lending the name of its largest city to the gap in federal law that allows gun sales to go through while a background check is still underway, South Carolina has still not closed the Charleston Loophole that armed the mass shooter who attacked worshipers at the Emanuel AME Church in 2015. Lawmakers in 2024 repealed the state’s concealed carry permit requirement, allowing people to carry loaded firearms in public with no training or background check.

And July 4 is just around the corner!

We’re following the curious killing of 18 year old Haven Alexander McBride, at the hands of his gun-mad, curious, stepfather. Background here. And here.

At first police seemed willing to accept the shooter’s story about a tragic accident involving his tragically misunderstanding the bullet-status of one of his many tragic guns.

But someone in the livingroom where this person thought it would be a good idea to haul out a bunch of live weaponry seems to have spilled the beans. There’s also the matter of video evidence.

‘Detectives noted that it took Lee approximately four minutes from the time of the shooting before he started CPR.

Investigators say Lee “stands up, tells his wife to call 911, proceeds to manipulate and remove a magazine from at least one pistol, and then puts the guns away without checking on (McBride),” and then gives his stepson a “blessing” before performing CPR. “(Lee) claimed that he didn’t immediately render aid, because he knew (McBride) wouldn’t come back from this and CPR was just standard procedure,” according to the court documents.

Prosecutors further note in the charges that Lee “claimed he was a medic in the military” and had “a trauma kit in the home” but did not use it to help his stepson.‘

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We..e..e..ll hold on first I gotta ditch the evidence… Okay now let me say a prayer over the boy… Domine domine vobiscus Looo-oooo-rd hear… our… prayer… What’s that, hon? Nah, he’s bleeding out saw this a million times in combat. You just kinda know when CPR makes no sense, but okay if you really want me to go through the motions…

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Prosecutors want him held in jail without being able to post bail.

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UD‘s gonna go out on a limb and suggest the shooter is a nutcase, thinks he’s God, and the more the police talk to him, the more that fact displays itself, and the more they want him to stay in jail. Gunny states like Utah seem to produce more than a few guys like this — spiritual, upstanding, egomaniac gun maniacs.

The Bloomberg School releases 2023 gun statistics, and once again the most passionate gunny isn’t the bad boy blasting away in the bar, but the quiet little depressive barely visible over there in the corner, gently cocking his Glock.

For the third straight year, gun suicides reached a new high: 27,300, or 58% of all gun deaths, were suicides. And more than half of all suicides in 2023 involved a gun... “Suicide is a growing crisis in the U.S. and guns are driving that crisis,” says study lead author Rose Kim, MPA, assistant policy advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions... [R]apid increases in gun suicides among some groups align with increased gun ownership rates that began in 2020...

That’s why our suicidiest states are all the ones with the most guns: Wyoming, Montana, Alaska. “Wyoming led the nation with about 19.9 gun suicide deaths per 100,000 residents – nearly 10 times the rate of Massachusetts, which had the lowest at about 2.1 per 100,000.”

Asked about his way-gunny state’s very high suicide rate, the Oklahoma state GOP chair responds: “Everyone dies. That’s life.”

I think this is the guy. Two of his four FB pictures feature him showing off a gun. Seems to have believed that you’re not safe if you’re not armed all the time.

But you better stay awake if that’s how you roll, cuz while you sleep one of your always-available guns might be taken up by someone else, see, like the curious toddler who toddled into your bedroom while you slept, found the gun, fired it, and killed you dead.

The only consolation we can draw from this tragedy is that a young gun enthusiast-to-be has, thanks to you, had a chance to test a gun and set out – very early – on his own gun journey. Let that be your epitaph.

“And I think it’s very important to maybe use this tragedy as some kind of positive, try and get people to understand how to avoid these kinds of things in the future.”

The charge of manslaughter is a second-degree felony, and could mean up to 15 years behind bars.

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Math ain’t my strong suit, but let’s see. If every household in a state has, well, multiple firearms, and if said state, like all states, has a certain number of idiots, immatures, insanes, and incompetents, how many of these here “tragedies” can we expect? I mean, go ahead and throw in suicidally depressed. That’s a lot of tragedies. What a sad and shocking fate for this noble defensive/sporting instrument.

All our gunniest states have immense numbers of suicides and immense, uh, misadventures like the one people in Utah are talking about, where some idiot brought out multiple loaded guns in the living room, surrounded by his family, and started showing off with them. Oh boohoo shot my kids head off I din mean it now can I go home?

No because, at some bloodsoaked point, accident bleeds into manslaughter.

I mean, this being Utah he’ll get a boys will be boys judge who will slap his wrists and free him to slaughter another family member and the state’s butcher bill will keep going up and up and up.

Family members told CBS Los Angeles the victim was a man and that he was shot [and killed] during a celebratory end-of-college pool party.

Judge talks to 11 year old who brought sixty rounds of ammo and a gun to school.

… near you.

One of the gunniest, dyingest, states in the union generates yet another dad kills son by accident story cuz I dunno he was holding a loaded gun and fuck I dunno…

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It’s quite something to watch local commenters blame dad-on-kid killing on people who want gun control. See my headline? What exactly is the argument here? That if psycho-gun-death states like Utah had stricter gun laws they wouldn’t start having way fewer dad on kid deaths, the way states like Massachusetts — that make it harder to whip out your gun and let fly — do? That controlling some kinds of gun purchase, some kinds of gun purchasers, and some kinds of lethal behavior with guns doesn’t decrease gun deaths?

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[A] 46-year-old man was showing family members a new barrel he had purchased for his Glock handgun...

The gun had a round in the chamber, and it went off while he was showing the gun to members of his family … Additional details on what may have caused the gun to fire remain under investigation.

[T]he man’s 18-year-old son, whose name has not yet been released, was sitting on a couch in the living room with other family members and was shot in the head. The father was standing across from him.

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What caused the gun to fire was dad. Gather round, entire family, and lemme show off my new Glock barrel! Sonny, you just sit right there on the couch and I’ll stand right across from you, with the gun level with your head. [BANG] Whoooooooopsies…..

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Later that same day…

See dat? Cops just threw out the whole “accidental” thing and arrested the – not father; stepfather – for manslaughter. The original story stank to high heaven.

South Carolina. LOL

Bullying, threatening sports parents we have always had with us, but now that everyone’s got a gun, watch out.

Offended that his kid didn’t get enough time on the playing field, a NJ father subjected coaches and principals to extensive verbal violence/threats, because of which he’s been banned from the kid’s high school graduation. Boring details here.

One of the great things about everyone packing is that comments like you better watch your back and you wanna fight? have gone from irritants to declarations of war. People who used to be regarded as manageable assholes now present as terrifying machine gunners, and quickly the police are called in.

This particular asshole has announced he might watch the graduation standing atop a big truck in the street next to the event. Who will be surprised when this latest shit from the guy includes him pointing his AR15 at the happy families?

… Prince George’s County … implemented a youth curfew last year following [several violent] incidents involving [large gatherings of] teens.

“We haven’t had any problems since,” said Prince George’s County Council Chair Edward Burroughs, who backed the county’s curfew. 

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Apparently sometimes they do work.

OTOH, it has an abundance of suicides by gun; and of course it features baby killing by open-carrying not-far-from-babies-themselves at events like adorable little village festivals.

Adorable little village festivals where we gather to celebrate how wonderful is our little village, where sixteen year olds open lethal fire on mothers and babies!

How amazing are we and our little village and our guns and our exchange of fire with police that even the New York Times covered our festival? How many little village festivals get NYT coverage? Our little village bloodbath got noticed by the premier paper in the country and maybe the world! We’re showing everyone how you hold a festival in gun country!

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“The violence and deaths at the WestFest celebration in West Valley are tragic and seem to be the result of youth violence,” Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said.

No dear. Youth violence of various sorts is routine everywhere. Baby killing is the result of youth possession of guns. Which Utah specializes in.

The killer was sixteen years old.