And she’s lawyering up.

Here’s a possible reason why.

Of course the madman (read his manifesto) had lots and lots of guns; and this being the States he probably got most of them himself, legally. But what if his mother provided some of them? Is this going to turn out to be a version of Adam Lanza or Kip Kinkel, homicidal madmen whose parents (one or both of them) believed that giving their psychotic, gun-obsessed children guns would be therapeutic?

Surely the latest shooter’s mother is aware that parents of mass murdering people are going to prison for providing some of their weaponry; and it may be that, you know, she’d rather not go to prison.

Original play, 1895: ‘I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.’

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2025: [Ibn Demps’ lawyer told the court that he shot a fellow card player in the stomach at point-range due to] “some sort of misunderstanding.”

‘Every country has mentally ill people. Only America arms them.’

Only America.

Only America.

Only America.

Only America.

Only America.

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In every country, people get into arguments, suffer from mental health issues and have extreme views — all common explanations for shootings. But in America, these people can much more easily pick up a firearm and shoot someone. When a country makes something easy to do, people are more likely to do it.

Children! During Catholic mass! Sounds as though the shooter killed a lot of them. This sort of thing the bullet-addled American press will notice.

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Addition to the engraving on the building:

THIS IS THE HOUSE OF GOD AND THE GATE OF HEAVEN AND THE HELLSCAPE OF GUNS

[photo tim evans reuters]

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“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”

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“We are dealing with gunshot wound injuries from a high-velocity weapon.” Good to know that people are working hard as we speak to make and sell much higher velocity weapons. They’re particularly explosive on the bodies of young children. At Uvalde, there was very little left of some of the children. Pulverized.

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“The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children, it’s absolutely incomprehensible.”   Oh fuck you police chief. You’re the police chief. This is the sort of thing that happens in this country, so comprehend. Grasp mentally. Understand. Minneapolis doesn’t pay you to flutter your little handkerchief and say you don’t get it. If you don’t get it, get another job. Stop using words every bit as empty as thoughts and prayers. State that you are angry that violent psychopaths have access to military grade weapons in America, and that everyone should be angry. Say something that means something.

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Minneapolis has seen a string of violence in the past 24 hours. The shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church was the fourth in the city since Tuesday, and the second near a school. In total, the attacks have left at least five people dead and 25 injured, according to the police.

Duh. Can’t catch my breath.

It’s adjacent to an RV park and a golf course, and the bullets whizzed by the golfers and pierced the RVs and people got upset by this. So I enlarged my berm, and I paid for the RV damage.

A lot of us hadn’t even had our coffee yet, and right next to our local Jesuit high school a kid stops his Kia, steps out with his high-velocity .223 caliber rifle, and sprays a crowd of kids.

Now nighttime “blood showers” (as one observer put it) is one thing. That’s normal. Midday, it’s devastating to watch the streets of Minneapolis turn into the streets of Port Au Prince. At night, you really don’t see it… Not as vividly… not as, you know, in cold blood, as you see it in the afternoon…

To be killed in Mississippi is so common as to be a banality. It’s number one in the nation for homicides, with 23.7 killings per 100,000 people. Basically, entering into a conversation with anyone anywhere on any subject in the state of Mississippi stands a reasonable chance of blowing you away.

Um. Why wouldn’t they be? Why is this a headline? Why is this news?

Oh because another nut with a gun fired shots outward from inside the club.

The bullets spew fast and furious at Cincinnati’s Roselawn neighborhood hookah joints, where a gunfight broke out on Saturday at one bar, and another gunfight broke out at another bar on Sunday.

The [Sunday] shooting scene is only a few feet away from another shooting that happened at a Roselawn bar around 3 a.m. Saturday morning.

Only a few feet away! And gunfire both weekend nights right there!

Do you think the city of Cincinnati has a little bit of interest in vaguely acknowledging what they’ve got going there? You have to figure there have been tons of fights at those bars that don’t end in gunfire and therefore don’t make the papers… And it’s just a remarkable fact about gunny USA that city councils don’t do shit.

But of course they’re waiting for a real body count. Two or three injured doesn’t cut it.

Mass murder, of course. They’ll be on that right away.

Who knew that some of them are unstaffed? And who knew that giving Gomers unsupervised freedom to shoot would turn out badly?

But they ain’t too dumb to figure out that the best place to shoot their head off is a gun range.

The Bullet Play. Happens routinely now.

… they’ve got one in a spanking new high school in Charlotte NC cuz the football team cut a guy and he was pissed so he shot his gun (totally. lots of students with guns on campus every day.) into a room. But he didn’t hit/kill anyone, so why should the school bother telling parents about it? Kid with gun. Yawn. Kid attacks school with gun but no one’s hurt so wazza matter with you? Shaddap this doesn’t count nothing happened.

… with the usual massive windowless Brutalist suspects; of course, Boston’s City Hall Plaza and its evil twin, DC’s FBI building, continue to dominate the rankings.

While scrolling through images, UD discovered MIT’s Simmons Hall – a dorm – and she was excited to see that this project

… wait — THIS project

is a noteworthy part of the country’s emergent Mortar and Pistol school of architecture, where (in this case) the walls are pockmarked by bullets, and there are generous platforms for sniper nests.

More broadly, M&P design incorporates guns of all kinds into its symbolic forms.

‘Lox & Loaded Gun Club Aims for Self-Defense for Jewish Community‘

It’s like – what sort of city lets that happen? Has no control of locations that WILL be mass murder sites? It’s like it’s … a fucking menu for mass murder. UD doesn’t get it.