… for public schools to use in issuing statements to parents when – as so often happens – students are found on campus with loaded guns. Either you call the weapon an “inappropriate item,” or you gesture vaguely in the direction of “police activity.”
Fort Worth ISD sent … a letter … to parents, reading in part, “our campus was briefly placed on lockdown due to police activity near the school.” The letter did not mention why there was police activity or explain that there were guns recovered.
Three guns, from three tykes.
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UD proposes further euphemisms:
Extremely short words that have other meanings: GAT. ROD.
Extremely obscure words no one will recognize: HARQUEBUS. CULVERIN.
What’s shocking is that 18 year old cutoff age. It seems unfair and arbitrary, in a country where millions of 15-17 year olds currently buy/carry/trade/threaten with/injure with/kill with guns, to suddenly disenfranchise this large group of citizens. In the present American context, an 18 year old with a gun is a seasoned marksman. It’s absurd to think of disarming 18-20 year olds.
The Milwaukee public school system comes up with a new phrase for “loaded gun.”
A family member known to be mentally ill goes out of control and is desperately handed off by his father to his mother — WITH FOUR WEAPONS ON HIM INCLUDING AN AK47.
“[E]very country contains mentally ill and potentially violent people. Only America arms them,” writes Adam Gopnik. And man this story out of Maine makes that pretty graphic, don’t it. Son killed his mother in the car, then exited and took up a position along the road and starting shooting at passing vehicles. Killed one person and badly injured two before he decided it was time to kill himself. (With the AK47. That’s gotta hurt.)
Shades of Adam Lanza’s mother, who believed giving her violently insane son lots of guns would be therapeutic.
You kinda wonder under what conditions these people would call the police. Or an ambulance. If he had twelve guns on him? Body armor? IEDs?
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What is with these people? Gotta be a death wish.
And meanwhile, civilizationally, it’s really not a good look. “Not even the most primitive of societies can compete now with our new predictable savagery.”
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“This is something that you don’t see very often, even though we saw it in Bowdoin not too long ago,” said a police spokesperson. LOLOL.
Yes. Tennessee made it real easy.
Its greatest fame is the 2012 theater shooting; but in smaller ways it keeps its hand in the gun massacre game, as in the mother who puts a loaded weapon in her elementary school-aged child’s backpack.
[T]he child was showing the gun to classmates when another student notified an adult… Aurora officials announced the 39-year-old mother of the student, later identified as Zoe Cherelle Cantrelle, was issued a summons for child abuse and failing to safely secure a firearm. Both are misdemeanors.
Pretty little street of half million dollar houses in Tacoma, Wash., including a senior living village! Sweet how old and young (one of the dead was sixteen) meet on this all-American bullet-riddled court. “Several shell casings are scattered throughout the street and two weapons have been located.” In the autumn, scattered leaves; in the spring, scattered casings…
And Granny just stumbled over an AK47!
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 27-year-old man repeatedly discharged a gun on a residential street in his home community of Charleston, authorities allege.
Nicholas Scozzari was arrested three days after the episode, which lasted about a half hour starting around 4:15 a.m. on March 9 in the vicinity of his home on Sonia Court near Bloomingdale Road, according to the criminal complaint and police.
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Oh, what a beautiful mornin!
An official from a Mississippi gun group flatly states that restrictive laws have no effect on injuries and deaths from firearms. She doesn’t give a shit that states with gun control rank highest on safety, while states like hers, Mississippi, with virtually no gun control, rate – er – dead last (except for White Power Wonderland Idaho).
I think when your state, for decades, ranks last or almost last on all measures of education, health, and welfare, a weird inversion sets in, and your abject failure becomes a point of pride. Ole Miss did it again! No other state has our sweet synergy of ignorance, paranoia, and hoplophilia. Y’all come down, y’hear?
RIP Baby’s — but at least they got to shoot people with lots of guns before they had to close.
In the wake of New Mexico’s latest bloodbath, the governor notes that the “legislature will adjourn today without having a passed a single bill to address juvenile crime or ban assault weapons. Their inaction is appalling and unacceptable.”
The mayor of Las Cruces NM gets points for honesty, as one of those obviously mass murder generating events generates mass murder in her crime-ridden city. Collect a crowd of very young idiots at some idiotic illegal event involving cars and alcohol, and watch the bullets fly.
The violent crime rate [in NM] was twice the national average in 2023, according to the Council of State Governments Justice Center… By August of 2024, violent crime in [Las Cruces] was up 46 percent compared to the same period in 2023.
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Sure you want the skinny on America’s dumbest, grungiest, state? Go here if you dare.
Yeah, that’s why a house full of loaded guns was just the ticket.
