The writer – a native South Dakotan – seems to think there’s something noteworthy about a man openly carrying this
(that’s a Dad picking up his kid at the airport) in the sweet idle setting of a summer fair. Massive overt personal weaponry seems wrong, somehow, in places like summer fairs, airports, churches, hospitals, schools…
But steely-eyed thin-lipped SD Sen. Mykala Voita
presses hard and successfully on the legislature to arm South Dakotans everywhere – in particular, on college campuses and in bars.
Instead of letting any student keep a handgun in their dorm room and carry it to class if they wish (as the original bill, unbelievably, would have done and as Voita made clear she still prefers), SB 100 now allows only gun owners who have qualified for an enhanced concealed carry permit to have a pistol on campus.
Now, see, again, that “unbelievably” – this is from the same SD’an who thinks it’s really something to see a man openly toting an AR15 at a summer fair – tips you off that this writer is out of step with her state and should probably be living in godless gunless Garrett Park with UD. As should Republican Senator Steve Duffy (Rapid City), who not only voted against arming bar patrons but said, “This is crazy. When you mix booze and guns I don’t know how you can expect anything good to happen. Sooner or later, there’s going to be trouble.”
But hey this is fuckin Deadwood South Dakota! Sure there’s gonna be trouble, and Voita knows that, but it’s the wild fuckin west so let ‘er rip. Nihilism, ho!
‘[John] Adamo was known for being “very obnoxious,” and frequently sat in his garage blasting heavy metal at extremely high volumes.
“There were definitely arguments [with his closest neighbors] that led up to this,” [a neighbor] said.
Adamo was a “combative alcoholic” who ripped down a surveillance camera mounted on [his neighbors’] home before squeezing off the first round [of gunfire that practically killed the husband and wife who made him angry]…
[T]he dispute [has] been simmering for years, and … it involved multiple cameras pointed at Adamo’s home, as well as a sign out front, reading, “PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO TRESPASSING,” with the words, “Mr. and Ms. Adamo!!!!” handwritten underneath.
“It’s been a running feud,” another neighbor told the Post. “And John’s a nut. There was always friction… This has been going on for years.”
Adamo, too, had cameras pointed at [his neighbors’] house…
Adamo, a Brooklyn native who used to work on Wall Street but was reportedly doing construction work in recent times, was estranged from his family due to his drinking and friction involving his late father’s estate…‘
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After a standoff with police, Adamo was found in his bedroom, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Of course a man like John Adamo had guns.
You’ll be relieved to hear that although strictly speaking the fight started inside the terminal – at a crowded baggage claim – they moved it outside when the AK47s started up. Admittedly, if you’d been at the airport window that their guns blew out, you’d have been killed, but as it happened no one was standing by that window.
As our country argues the advantages of American colonization to various of the world’s nations, it shouldn’t forget to mention a way of life which rivals only Haiti.
This story is the quintessence of America, mes petites. UD‘s telling you: It don’t get no more American than this.
Start with baseball. Gotta be baseball, right? A varsity softball game between two high schools where?
Where else? So okay baseball and Texas. Let’s do motherhood and apple pie! Loving mom Elysia Quinn Klatt was in attendance, cheering on her kid. Also loving dad, from whom Elysia is divorced.
Let’s do free speech! While Junior was out there slugging, mom and dad and their new spouses started shouting about child custody issues.
Last but not least:
During the argument, police said 30-year-old Elysia Quinn Klatt grabbed a firearm from a vehicle and allegedly pointed it at her ex-husband before being immediately disarmed by another male involved in the altercation. No shots were fired.
Klatt and [her current husband] then reportedly left the area in their Dodge Mega Cab RAM 3500, traveling south on FM 462 before the Medina County Sheriff’s Office located Klatt and took her into custody.
Okay, I made up the Dodge Mega. But it must have been some sort of pickup.
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Plus the story’s like what did Dreiser call it An American Tragedy cuz Elysia can’t even lie to get out of her charges (aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful carrying of a weapon in a prohibited place and terroristic threat against family/household member – aggravated assault) cuz she did it in front of a packed softball game.
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“Okay so I made up the Dodge Mega but I wonder how much one costs.”
“I’ll guess,” said Mr UD, “$80,000.”
“I’ll guess $50,000. [Checks online.] Yikes. High end model starts at $90,930. But if you only want a few bells and whistles it’ll cost you $70,000 plus.”
When junior Alex Acuna walks into John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring [Md.] to start his school day, he feels safe. But in the back of his mind, he says he’s also thinking that walking into the school means it could be his “last day alive.”
UD‘s county still hasn’t transformed its public schools into armed camps, with metal detectors and police everywhere, cuz it thinks it’s too classy for that sort of thing. Everybody else is doing it, but Bethesda? Chevy Chase? These are among America’s most affluent, most educated, blahblahblah…
So change has to come from the parents, not the deluded county council, which seems prepared to see students die on the altar of its self-regard.
A petition, in the wake of gun possession and gun fight incidents in just the last two weeks, is now circulating.
A fifteen year old student packed heat at the school; mere days before, a fight involving a pretty large number of Bethesda Chevy Chase high school students plus gunfire took place in the middle of Bethesda. As administrators/security begin to crack down, they will certainly discover that the gangs at the school and/or isolated mentally disturbed students bring guns to campus on a regular basis.
But will there be a crackdown? Does BCC have, like, a principal? Is this person doing anything?
Sorry. Her widower has told anyone who will listen that she had severe, longstanding, mental illness marked in particular by profound clinical depression. I’m sure it’s true that no one was capable of imagining she’d shoot bullets directly into the heads of her four children; but just as surely her husband, and her close friends like you, were aware that she manifested the perfect confluence of symptoms for suicide/attempted suicide. Anyone with eyes in her head would have taken one look at the loaded weapons in that house and tried to remove them.
I hear you. In Wyoming, even with no weapons inside, she only needed to stroll to the sidewalk in front of her house and ask any of the passersby dripping with Destroyer Carbines if she could borrow one for a sec. But this unusual behavior might at least have tipped off her two older daughters that mommy was really losing it now and they should flee.
UD‘s sick, in this blood-soaked country, of people, post-massacre of the innocents, looking everywhere — nasty mysterious God, the lethal difficulty of childrearing — but at the fucking guns.
