Sure, after you expel the violent psycho with the loaded gun from your high school, you could continue his education virtually… But try finding anyone among your teachers willing to risk his getting to know where they live!

His parents (did they give him the gun?) have filed an angry indignant lawsuit; they cannot believe that just because their little one

was found with a loaded handgun near campus on Oct. 28, triggering an increased police presence that day as well as on Oct. 29, when a false report of an active shooter sent the school into a lockdown… Raleigh police detained J.S. and two other students behind Peace Street Market, which is just across from [the school]. They had left campus without permission on Oct. 28 around 10:30 a.m.. According to police, J.S. was in possession of [a] loaded firearm. He tried to run from police … Extra police were at Broughton for two days. Student attendance dropped as some parents kept their children home… In November, a district administrative panel recommended a long-term suspension of 365 days and expulsion. Wake County Superintendent Robert Taylor backed the recommendation... In April, a school board appeal panel upheld the 365-day suspension and expulsion... The student had “a pretty recent history of physically aggressive behaviors on campus” that … was increasing in severity.

… just because of the fights he routinely picked at school, his force backed up by a loaded pistol… just because of these teeny weeny infractions… the school, plus an appeals board, threw his wittle ass out totally! He’s just a child! A child with a loaded gun! Big deal!

Out here in nowhere OK, which is all about guns booze divorce no broadband and no people, suicide is all the rage; and when you’re ready for your Beretta to the brain, more and more folks are realizing that nothing beats a gun range — your one-stop-shop for pop pop pop. Or just pop.

They’ll hand you a gun, man, and while fellow shooters might be put out by your suddenly bleeding all over the place, that’s a whole sight better’n leaving a mess at home for your roommate. Here it’s a bunch of strangers who’ll call 911 right away no muss no fuss.

Which is why gun range suicides are a thing; they are a growing subset of gun suicides not yet exploited by the gun ranges, but I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t start advertising as venues. As OK State Sen Nathan Dahm (who personally made sure OK don’t have NO red flag laws) says, “Everyone dies. That’s life.” I mean SHARUGGG. SHRUUUUG. WTF. BFD. We’re cowboys out here.

You charge more cuz there’s more cleanup — not just a crew to sweep up spent casings, but a special contingent ready to try out a bit of CPR before handing the body off to EMTs and then sopping up the blood/brain.

Butte City Mayor Kevin “Have Gun will Gavel” Turner got pissed at some people during a city council meeting and pulled out his loaded Hi-Point 45 ACP model JHP. He seems to have started banging it loudly on the table (hence the “gavel” part of the name I just gave him) and to have screamed a lot. UD‘s favorite scream, with its keen sense of checks and balances, features in this post’s headline.

Good news is he did not proceed to rip open his camo shirt to reveal a swastika beneath. By Idaho standards, this makes him a moderate.

 Tommy Fargis [is] the pastor at Deep Creek Baptist Church [NC], which is situated within earshot of [a] gun range’s location.  Fargis conceded that [the range owner’s] seemingly cavalier attitude about his church’s repeated complaints have tested even his own capacity for Christian forgiveness.

“He promised me on two different occasions that ‘we’ll stop shooting on Sunday until after your service,’” Fargis [said]. “That lasted one week. And I don’t take kindly being lied to because as pastor of Deep Creek Baptist Church, I represent Jesus Christ.”

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“The peace of the Lord

CHOOMCHOOMBLAMCHOOMBLAMPOPOPOPOPOPOP

be with you and also

WHEEEEPOPPOPWHAMBANGBANGBANGBLAMCHOOM

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Anyhoo the pastor’s client got His own back.

Richmond Va. already has a shockingly high gun homicide rate; the good citizens of that city have long since proven their brilliance at getting guns and shooting them at people they want to kill (often turns out to be everyone). Folks from six to sixty are out there bangbangbanging.

UD therefore wonders whether the city needs yet another massive shooting range (these are only the best ten local ranges).

The annual Richmond murder rate has dipped a bit in the last couple of years, so maybe it’s as simple as Richmond not wishing a further drop in the rankings.

But it’s the best place to die! Especially if you’re a child.

 “Representative Tillman, Sellers, and Hendrix, we went to the Speaker. We begged the Speaker, ‘Listen, Birmingham is a blood bath every day. Can we try to move this Glock switch bill?’”

How legislation gets done in Bama.

‘America’s gun violence undermines the legitimacy of its efforts to challenge other countries’ treatment of their own citizens.‘

Meaning: No one in a position to do something here cares that we regularly slaughter our schoolchildren, so where do we get off lecturing other countries on good behavior?

Plus we’re exporting our bloody gunlove to the rest of the world.

“I’ve been [working in Myrtle Beach] since 1988,” curfew supporter and business owner Chris Walker said Tuesday. “A lot of things have changed, but just having brazen shootouts on our street, that’s not what I signed up for.”

… Walker owns an ice cream store, two coffee shops, a haunted house and some parking lots in downtown Myrtle Beach. On weekends, he has four security guards at $27 an hour on patrol. He also has 80 cameras and said they have recorded “things that you see on video games” by people who “have no respect for human life, and that’s the sad state of where we are right now.”

… Jersey-style.

I cover a lot of these, and a lot of them happened most recently on and around July 4, but the basic point is that mass shooters keep shooting up our crowd events: parades, fireworks displays, rallies, high school graduations, sports events etc., etc. I think the great symbol of this social movement will be the 2017 Las Vegas Harvest Music Festival massacre (‘1,000 rounds, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413 others. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867.’), but that mad motiveless killer’s death toll will inevitably be surpassed by another person who for no reason at all wants to kill everybody.

But it’s the smaller stories, the daily stories, you’re missing, and that’s too bad because the death of American public events is happening all around us, small story by small story. You can find gobs of them on this blog, like the decision yesterday by the town of Pahrump (not far from Las Vegas) to suspend “Movies in the Park … until further notice,” because a crowd can’t gather in Pahrump without people shooting at everyone. Movies in the Park becomes Mossbergs in the Park and that’s the end of the matter.

A house burnt to a crisp by a flare gun! Hundreds of bullets in all directions shatter the night! Happy Fourth!

Doesn’t it have people who monitor online crowd event activity?

Is the place asleep?

Does it have a death wish?

Its poor police chief still thinks this is about babysitting. He needs to be fired and replaced by someone who understands the gravity of the situation.

Yeah, well. Everyone’s kind of expecting gunplay, so when you announce an active shooter from the stage — even if turns out to be only a fight (unpleasant enough , but unlikely to rip out your family’s internal organs) — the whole place stampedes away.

And how many people are then going to turn to their terrified kids and say Okay coast is clear let’s go have some fun!!!! ?

Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of guns, University Diaries lands us, tonight, in adorable Hidden Springs, Idaho, an Ada County planned community way out in the foothills of some mountain. Hidden Springs sits way out there all by itself, neat farmhouse style homes in pristine nature, and who can blame it for boasting of its many amenities?

But nowhere on its website will you find disclosure about gunfire from an illegal shooting range just down the road a tad.

For that you have to consult the local press which, in a series of articles, has followed the range owner’s belief that the “government” (whatever that is) has no power whatsoever over my private property, fuck it, and if I want to charge people hither and yon to fire their guns on my private property any old time I can fucking well do it and don’t come at me with shit like permitting applications and public hearings.

 In response to complaints from Hidden Springs folks, the range’s owner says “residents shouldn’t be surprised to hear gunfire because the discharge of firearms in rural Ada County is common.” Suck it up MAGA world the noise I’m making is a drop in the noise bucket of all the daily bangbang here see and you know it. Live by the gun or move away.

I don’t wanna be around when the inevitable (cough) ‘visit’ from the local police happens… I’m thinking Ruby Ridge…