Big gun shop moving right next door to two day cares! What could go wrong?
Hoowhee Texas! You think YOU love guns! You ain’t been to Texas!! Gunshots morning afternoon and night; and in Katy in particular they put a shooting range across the street from a kids’ baseball complex.
Here’s a typical game:
“We started at 8 a.m. and the gunshots have been going off since then,” said [one parent].
“We had a game at 8 and could hear rifles and shotguns going off at times throughout the whole game. Even leaving the park after the game, shots were going off,” another parent added.
But don’t nobody say nuthin cuz it’s the fuckin sound of freedom. Smell of napalm in the morning blast of gunfire all day kinda thing. Heartbeat of America. Baseball and bullets. Don’t get better than that.
Sure, they hit the coach. Fine, the coach was airlifted out. BFD. “There was bullets flying everywhere. It wasn’t one shot. There’s bullets flying everywhere off the poles, onto the field. It’s just unbelievable.” You expect a little carnage in Texas, and, you know, at least it wasn’t one of the kids and at least no one was killed.
Yeah, datz where we are.
UD‘s having a hell of a good time reading this thread about leftwing gunnies.
“Was [Kirk’s assassin] on the left? I don’t know … It is a fool’s errand to try to say that these nuts who do these things are [on] any team… This kid doesn’t belong in either party. He belongs in a straitjacket. He’s an outpatient who should not be out.”
Which reminds UD of something else she’s been thinking about. The missing link in these kills done by people 16-25 is their parents. Many of the killers are still living at home, and in many cases their parents know perfectly well that their kid is nuts. Their response to this dawning horror is denial plus hiding: They don’t want it to be true; and they don’t want anyone outside the home to know it’s true.
Many of these homes are already really gunny, with dad deciding it’d make the kid better if they went to the ranges together… You’d be amazed how many parents of violent demented children decide more guns and more shooting is the answer.
Or maybe the parent enjoys his own rage against society being acted out by the kid. Things get squirrely here.
The larger theme of moronic negligence resounds throughout the land, as in the husband who took a business trip, leaving his spectacularly insane wife alone in the house with her four little daughters. She slaughtered all of them with one of many guns her husband decided were fine to keep unlocked with a maniac in the house. One of the girls survived long enough to suffer great pain for a few days.
A country club in New Hampshire! A departure from hookah lounges in Louisiana.
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‘At least half a dozen people were taken to Nashua area hospitals with injuries that were not gunshot-related, sources told News 9 Investigates. Many were injured in the chaos of the shooting.‘
That’s one thing UD‘s been thinking about lately. In toting up our daily American shootings, we concentrate on the kill rate; we don’t focus much at all on the physically and emotionally injured that lie scattered about these scenes.
Oh, the nut in Nashua (he seems to have been another armed psychotic, but we’ll see) only managed to blow one person away; forget it; move on to today‘s bloody mess… We forget the maimed for life, the traumatized, the old people who snapped their legs trying to run, the children crushed by adults. We never bother thinking at all about, say, the owners and staff of businesses – like country clubs! – that labor every day to sustain an environment of calm, beauty, and sociality… sure, even of snobbery… and the whole point of the enterprise is its non-chaos, its safety from the shooting gallery out there. Regard them this morning, after one hundred people ran screaming from a killer on their trim verdant lawn: Glass everywhere, bright red blood on the bright green grass, Adirondacks upended and pulled apart, yellow police markers and tape, abandoned phones and games… It’s the last scene of the Great Gatsby, except that this is a group scene; it’s not just some rich guy gunned down in his magnificent pool on his magnificent estate. It’s a whole raft of wealthy suddenly wrenched from a subdued and beautiful setting into the savage insanity that is Anytown USA.
Watch for these would-be safety zones to look more and more like (ha) armed camps.
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It’s 24/7 guns in Chambers, AL, where “half time” in high school baseball games means the moment when ambient shooting becomes unignorable.
One of America’s most violent cities. A motorcycle club. Open all night. What could go wrong?
‘The crisis of suicides among older adults is inextricably linked with guns. Older Americans use a gun in a suicide attempt significantly more often than younger people. And guns are the most lethal method of attempting suicide.‘
‘While permitless carrying may have some effect on deterring offences like robberies, it is inadequate in the face of grievance and politically driven violence, said Brandon del Pozo, an assistant professor of medicine and health policy at Brown University.
“The deterrence effect of concealed carry only applies to rational actors. And you get to a point in political extremism where you’re not dealing with rational people,” he said...
[C]ities and states where many residents are armed in public can fail to account for the large presence of concealed guns and to plan to provide an accompanying level of screening.
“In places like Utah where there’s going to be a lot of guns in circulation, you have to decide when you’re going to carve out spaces where people are screened for guns,” [del Pozo] added.
“And if you’re a small police department, it’s hard to secure something outdoors. But if you’re coming to a provocative political rally, you need to be screened.”’
So notes The Guardian, which then quotes Hasan Piker:
“A bulletproof vest would not have saved Charlie Kirk. Security did not save Charlie Kirk. The only thing that could have potentially saved Charlie Kirk from getting shot in the neck was reasonable gun control.”
Then it quotes Josh Sugarmann:
Josh Sugarmann, executive of the Violence Policy Center which has tracked the proliferation of the sniper subculture, sees its growth as part of the increasing militarization of the gun industry and its civilian offerings. “No one notices or seems to care that there is an industry actively designing and building the weapons that enable shooters to more effectively commit assassinations and mass shootings,” he said.
“The gun industry is designing, building and promoting rifles that are effective at much longer range with the goal of ‘one shot, one kill’.”