Take a bow, SIG Sauer.
A typical American abattoir, Showcase (UD came up with a better name) is of course noisy and gunny all night long. AND it seems to sit right in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Does Garfield Heights have any zoning ordinances?
Bikers compete in the burn out pit at Suck Bang Blow bar in Murrells Inlet, S.C. during the 2024 Myrtle Beach Spring Rally. Their spinning tires burn rubber often shredding tires and filling the air with smoke, the roar of engines and the cheers from the crowd.
Thomas Hubert Parker Jr., of Bainbridge, was arrested on May 15, 2025, for allegedly shooting parts of the school zone speed cameras on Shotwell Street, according to investigators with Bainbridge Public Safety.
… Parker is facing 3 counts of “Possession of Tools for the Commission of a Crime” and “Interference with Government Property.”
… Parker is a Doctor of Anesthesiology…
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Shotwell Street LOL.
Here’s the new offending technology. The school district has pushed too far on this one — if you really make people in Georgia slow down, you can expect them to shoot out the school zone system.
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UD thought it might have, er, implications for his employment. I forgot it’s the southland. He’s been named Employee of the Month.
Trial coming up for one of the University of Alabama’s many gun-mad basketball players. Couple years ago a whole bunch of players went out for some fun and ended up shooting a woman to death. I mean, one of them, a friend of the players’, actually shot her, but one of the players provided the gun blahblah.
So the guy who actually shot her just got sentenced to life without parole, and things don’t look too good for the player who handed him the gun. Trial coming up.
Another player out with his teammates that night had already established a “pat-down” entrance whenever introduced before a game (this was a precursor to the much higher profile Ja Morant bit), and he kept it going even after he began to be investigated in connection with the murder. Straightlaced Deadspin considered the fact that the pat-down guy was allowed to play at all “quite shocking,” but c’mon. It’s ALABAMA.
Anyway, here’s a local opinion writer gettin all boohoo bout bloody Bama but really baby nobody gives a shit.
And he was returned to his original school why? Having wisely ejected an insane child now charged with terrorism, the school armed itself against him and took him back?
Interestingly, the focus of this article about him is not whatever rules, or whatever idiocy specific to this school, let him return with his immense, elaborate, killing gear; it’s his mother.
The mother of a [San Antonio] middle school student [that means the kid is 11 to 14] allegedly bought ammunition, magazines and tactical gear for her son, who had expressed a desire to carry out “acts of mass violence” at Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School, according to SAPD.
Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday on charges of aiding in commission of terrorism, court records show. She bought the items “with knowledge” that they would be “used to plan and carry out” a crime.
On Monday, the student showed up to Rhodes Middle School campus “wearing a mask, camouflage jacket and tactical pants but left shortly after,” police said... [A family member had earlier] contacted SAPD about items found in the possession of Pardo‘s son, including rifle and pistol ammunition, black tactical gear and an improvised explosive device made from a mortar-style firework. The family member also stated they found three loaded magazines and a note that had several names of mass shooters written on it. Some of the items were inscribed with “14 words” and “SS” symbols – references to white supremacy language and previous mass shootings…
You can buy your kid all the guns and bombs and masks you want, but you can’t give him the guts to use them.
… AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS SWOLLEN FACE.
‘[M]y rifle could reasonably have caused you to feel uncomfortable or intimidated … ‘
WAY ratchet, and security is loose. But the good people of Florence SC — and its political establishment — seem to love it.
A working class community (small homes with pickups in front of them) is bullet-riddled after a gunfight at an Airbnb party hits neighboring houses.
Showing a reporter the bullet holes in his house, one guy says this.
“There’s been a couple of times, maybe five times over the last two-and-a-half years, where there’s been some disturbances and these raging parties. Even on Monday nights until 2 a.m…. I don’t have a problem if people want to stay here, but it was less than quiet last night.”
What’s less than quiet in contemporary America? The bullets only pierce your refrigerator and not your kids.
A lavishly insane 13, 14, 15 year old madly transmitting her mass murder intentions has a degenerate father who feeds her Glocks and Sig Sauers and is too drunk to know where his guns are.
He’s likely excited at the prospect of his daughter shooting people.
In a normal country, this scenario would attract the attention of child protective services, but here, because guns are things of beauty, we let it go until she opens fire at her school.
O look what she did.
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Now they’ve scooped up the father and plastered some felonies on him and he’ll almost certainly be convicted and join the growing Parental Gun Supporting Group in our prisons.
These [latest gun] arrests contribute to the significant amount of criminal activity that occurred during a 48-hour time span over Spring Break weekend, as confirmed by Virginia Beach police.
On April 28, Virginia Beach police said 53 people were arrested over the course of Spring Break weekend. This resulted in nearly 200 criminal charges being issued.
A non-comprehensive list of the arrests made was released by the department. Of the 38 people on the list, most are adults in their late teens or early twenties. Those on the list range in age from 14 to 53, and everyone except the 14-year-old are adults.
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Noncomprehensive because they know there are far more.
Guntards remain in a rage about Washington State’s low gun-murder rate, and its latest state supreme court decision will really have them coughing up blood. Like Hawaii, Washington significantly trails the rest of the country in mass shootings. Both states can expect continued pressure to give child-slaughterers more firepower.
… Bonnie and Clyde vibes.
On Saturday evening, deputies got a 911 call about someone shooting [an AR-15] from the window of a black Mustang at a deer …
The same car was reported to be recklessly driving in the area, doing burnouts in the middle of the road and racing through the streets …
Deputies … observed the Mustang pass them doing 117 MPH …
As deputies searched for the car, dispatch got another 911 call about the black Mustang’s involvement in a hit-and-run, where it side swiped a 2018 Mercedes and left the area.
… William Franklin, 19, from Oklahoma, surrendered to deputies. The second passenger Mason Guidry, 20, of Louisiana and driver Justin Franklin, 36, of Oklahoma, and father of William Franklin, were found in a nearby field where they were trying to hide.
Mason surrendered, while Justin refused to cooperate, according to the sheriff. Justin Franklin was taken into custody after being bit by the K9.
Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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