[In his second road rage shooting incident,] Joe Harvey fired off at least nine bullets in the busy shopping area around 11:30 a.m. … With the two vehicles just 10 to 15 feet apart, he stepped onto the running board outside his door and started shooting.
I wondered what those running boards were for. Good place to get your footing and stabilize yourself before emptying your weapon. Maybe provides some protection from incoming/being seen. Maybe he practiced this maneuver in his first road rage shooting.
she was involved in a road rage incident with the occupants of the victims’ vehicle. [Four people reported she pointed a gun at them.] She said she had two guns in her car, but they were both in holsters under the front passenger seat. When the GPD officer asked how the victims knew she had a gun if both guns were under the seat, Naughton said, “They must have seen it on my dashboard,” but she was reportedly unable to explain how the gun was moved from under the passenger seat to the dashboard, since she was the only person in her vehicle. She reportedly changed her statement and said she “always drives with firearms on her dashboard.”
The officer reportedly saw two 9mm magazines in plain view in the center console of Naughton’s vehicle and a live round on the floorboard.
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I could go on. Oh, I could go on. We’ve covered on this blog mainly school shootings, threatened shootings, loaded guns brought in by elementary school students, blahblah. It’s getting dull cuz twenty of these a day. Haven’t done much road rage with brandished gun cuz… I don’t know why. They make better stories than the gunny kids and their gunny parents who put Glocks in their lunch boxes. TOO common. Yawn.
Gunny road ragers are even more common, but their stories are often better cuz like this woman they be real dumb and they lie real bad.
How bad does she think it could get? Matter-of-factly, she says: “My fear is we’re headed to civil war.” She restates a basic truth about the US. “There’s a lot of guns. There’s a lot of gun violence. There’s a habituation to violence that’s very American, that Europeans don’t understand.” Her worry is that the guns are accompanied by a new “permissiveness” that comes from the top, that was typified by Trump’s indulgence of the January 6 rioters, even those who wanted to murder his vice-president. As she puts it: “You can feel that brewing.” …
[W]e talk about those US citizens who put Trump back in the White House, even though, as she puts it, they knew who he was. “Nothing was hidden. People had plenty of time to think about it, and they chose this. And that disgust, I couldn’t shake that. I thought: ‘People wanted this – and I don’t want to have anything to do with this.’”
The focus on 2025 Ocean Boulevard shootings [in Myrtle Beach] began on April 26th when 11 people were sent to the hospital in a police officer involved incident where the juvenile who fired into a crowd was killed.
Several Ocean Boulevard shootings on successive weekends have happened since. Day trippers from towns approximately 100 miles in circumference to Myrtle Beach cause much of the violence … downtown on Ocean Boulevard.
Unsupervised teenagers ranging from 16 to 18 carry guns with them to the beach. Despite the pattern, Myrtle Beach police have yet to come up with a system for dealing with these unsupervised teens before the violence begins.
SC does not have truancy laws enabling MBPD to detain unsupervised juveniles until their parents retrieve them. Even when they identify potential violent teens, their hands are tied until the shootings start.
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Can this really be? A police force can’t detain suspicious people? They have to stand there waiting for them to start shooting?
Well babe see this is Massachusetts and the reason we have among the lowest gun deaths in the nation is because we bar idiots like you from our schools. Conceal carry your gun in Louisiana. You do it here, you’re trespassed from our school.
“[She is barred from attending] the sixth grade breakfast at Oak Ridge School with her daughter, and she asked the committee to allow her to attend.” Boohoo. Move to Shreveport.
NIMBY’s a bitch, ain’t it? Here’s a bunch of Idaho farmers – presumably some of America’s keenest gunnies (see the impressive Everytown writeup in my headline) – who’ve decided they DON’T want a “massive” gun range in their backyard.
Now the county they’re in – Bingham – went to the trouble of declaring itself a Protected Second Amendment County just in case the feds try in any way to fuck with their weapons, see, and that’s how gun gonzo they are! But now they’re boohooing cuz their county’s probably going to approve the range cuz why wouldn’t it. It’s Idaho, land of the worst guns laws in America. Land of militias. Land of Trump won by seventy percent. C’mon, people! You made your bed — lie in it! Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas! Take what you want but pay for it! Get the picture?
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Croyez moi, as a degenerate east coaster, my heart goes out to you guys! I wouldn’t want a massive gun range, with “rotating outsiders” (whatever that is) all over the place. But then I don’t like guns. YOU do. Enjoy the bangbangbangbangbangbangbang.
Excitedly, the young reporter warns us that some of the images we’re about to see “are disturbing.” He then shows them to us twice – the gape-mouthed woman in the foreground, the anxious policeman pushing her away from danger, a man standing over a dead body, the repeated sound of gunfire, and (the Don DeLillo Death touch), the glitzy background of the Bellagio at night.
Postmodern deaths happen while people are having fun.
You Tubes are now available showing closeups of the dead lying along the Las Vegas Strip. As Walter Benjamin, quoted in my title, noted many decades ago, our own destruction has become a thing recorded and delectated. Our own close to 50,000 gun deaths a year yield plenty of shared footage — especially when it’s mass murder, as in the 2017 slaughter of sixty people two miles down from the Bellagio.
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Here’s an even better one! Clearly shows the shooter doing his thing.
Bonus point: Since it’s night, we can see his gun shoot off sparks. Coooooool
And listen. Shooter’s a social media personality. Ya gotta assume he got a friend to film him shooting. Fantastic upload.
[T]he gunmen positioned themselves on elevated ground in a wooded area and fired down at the crowd. Some partygoers returned fire, which may have prevented further injuries.
The police chief can come out with all the horseshit he likes about isolated incident/no threat to the neighborhood, but groups of armed teenagers hiding behind cars while gunfighting on your street – and don’t matter none if your street is a hoitsy toitsy historic district – is A THREAT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. Any idiot knows that.
And isolated? Like, don’t worry cuz it won’t happen again?
Let’s see. Elmwood Park SC has twenty Airbnbs, one of which hosted this mass shooting. Neighbors have tried hard to rid the place of short term rentals, but SC seem to like these as much as it likes guns.
Guns, guns, guns. Among the best states in the union to stockpile and shoot ’em. Jest about the best state to kill/die from ’em. Tykes can strut around openly carrying ’em on their way to kiddie party shootouts. It’s a fuckin way of life.
Now yall wanna add that the long hot summer is upon us, which brings out much more bangbang.
“No motive is known at this time” lolololol. Motive. You’d think the cops would have some knowledge of the phenom.
Twenty years old, spectacularly armed, with a long criminal history featuring repeated apparent efforts to kill lots of people gathered in public spaces, he was apparently one of the treetop snipers in Hickory NC who shot into a large house party. He’s so young, so precociously accomplished, and he lives in such a gun-lovin’ state, that UD sees far more slaughter from this li’l guy. His kill rate remains poor, true; but each outing teaches him something, and I’m sure he’s got far more murder in him. Best of all, he’s a team player — doesn’t go anywhere without fellow shooters.
Right. UD was amazed to read, in an earlier article about a North Carolina mass shooting, that shooters were apparently positioned in nearby trees. She had trouble believing this ambush scenario, since virtually all paid-admission, bullet-riddled, house parties generate the bullets from inside the houses, as drunk guests get into gunfights.
But here you are to envisage an organized little army having climbed neighboring trees (lucky neighbor!) for a clean invisible shot into the party house. Wowsa. “[P]eople attending the party were also armed, and returned fire on the original shooter or shooters.” Wowsa!
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This is an unfolding, evolutionary history that UD has long written about. Whether school or party or lounge shooting, we’re going to see larger and more organized, more planned, mass attacks. We’re going to see return fire (at least eighty shots were released as armed guests hit back), turning these scenarios into protracted skirmishes with greater and greater injury/loss of life/danger to communities. We’re gradually going to realize that Americans consider this activity fun and exciting (an extension of the party, if you like), and that they need no motive beyond this to stage bloody little civil wars in our towns.
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And listen. This ain’t quaint Hatfield/McCoy shit. Look what these sixteen year olds are packing. Look what Americans are packing.
