“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.

Just another day at an American mall.

[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.

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That was Georgia. Just down the road in Florida:

Candace Marie Naughton told police

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 United States of America: Where we give everyone a gun and then watch what happens.

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.

No kidding.