Why the judge has him pay a thousand dollars and then go home, released on this teeny tiny bond.

The county attorney and the county sheriff are both shocked by what the judge did, as well they might be. Aren’t you?

But understand it’s Nebraska, where close to half the state carries, and where gun laws are practically nonexistent.

The judge is a perfect reflection of his community – a 19 year old with three prior convictions who presents in his courtroom having menaced everyone by his dangerous motorcycle driving and then, when stopped about it, shoving his gun in an officer’s face, ain’t nuthin. Ain’t no big deal. Give him back his gun and let him at us again.

“I will say it is better than it was four years ago. …But we’re still fighting that fight. It is not over.”

Even a record-low homicide rate — 4.1 or even 4.0 per 100,000 — would still be double Canada’s rate of 1.9.

“We’re still talking about 13- or 14-thousand murders,” [says a] crime data analyst. …”This is not a solved problem.”

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I mean, it’s still the USA. And gun suicides are soaring.

But Tennessee has one outmoded little law barring guns from college campuses. UD has no idea why the legislature has overlooked this embarrassment, which is no doubt keeping Memphis from being the most dangerous city in the world, and she feels confident there’s legislation, as we speak, removing the restriction.

Meanwhile, poor Christopher Stokes, Univ Memphis football player! Speeding through campus in your big SUV, with your big Glock, would seem a common enough activity for a Memphian. Big cars and big guns – don’t get any more USAan than that…

But the police arrested the lad (he’s twenty), and the school threw him off the team and took down his player webpage and all. Texas Tech, here he comes!

Lois Hugentober, a longtime employee, got out of her car, “pulled out a revolver, and leveled the laser-sighted weapon on a group of bicyclists at an intersection.”

When police caught up with her at her office, she “punched a wall in her supervisor’s office so forcibly it caused a clock to fall from the wall.”

Mao said it in 1927, and Berkeley County South Carolina Planning Commissioner James Sineath echoes the sentiment in 2026. He didn’t like something a citizen said during a recent meeting, so he threatened him with a gun.

Lil ol Anaconda MT ain’t even got 10,000 people in it, but it can sure shoot up bars! Life there is one post-bar-killing fundraiser after another … which is no small feat, cuz they have to compete with the post-gun-suicide fundraisers.

Anaconda County has the highest suicide rate in Montana, which itself has the highest suicide rate in the United States. So believe, sister, believe! Believe that when

Montana has among the worst gun laws in the country and has an especially high rate of household firearm ownership. The Treasure State has one of the highest rates of gun suicides in the country. Montana’s state legislature has repeatedly made the state’s weak laws even weaker. In 2021, state lawmakers eliminated the permit requirement for carrying a concealed gun in public and required colleges and universities to allow guns on their campuses.

— when you got all that going for you, believe you can turn your state red. I mean haha you’re already red politically — I mean you can turn the whole fuckin thing into one big bloody head after another exploding all over the place, babe. You just gotta believe.

They always say that.

In this case, a year after a sixteen year old killed three people at a local fair, organizers insist it can’t happen again. But “Utah lacks every foundational gun violence prevention law,” see, and that’s how sixteen year olds get hold of guns and blast away in front of the Ferris wheel crowds.

Oh but calm down, silly. The shooting was targeted.

‘James Williams [was] wearing a handgun in a chest holster, as well as a bandoleer with additional ammo and a body camera…. [Police also found on the man] two revolvers and bandoleers of ammo. [On a nearby tractor,] police found another revolver, an AR-15, several knives and a bayonet.’

And what better possession for an Alzheimer’s sufferer than a pistol with which he can threaten his neighbor?

The good reverend pulled a firearm on someone at a polling place in Green Pond S.C. Maybe he used this.

https://www.wnem.com/2026/06/09/flint-man-arrested-after-troopers-find-gun-baby-stroller

Assault with body fluids-sliming. A new one on me.

Our gunniest, suicidiest states are Wyoming, Montana, Alaska – all of them packed with far-flung macho men who drink divorce and depress til they can’t take it no more; and when a big ol’ gun gapes inches away from them hell why not.

Shasta, CA and its region have double the suicide rate of the rest of that state, and it’s the same old thing – mucho machos, and drink/divorce/depression with a side of Sig Sauer. Not much to be done, cuz they won’t let you take their guns away, and they certainly won’t talk to a psychiatrist.

An obscure little article describes daily life in Sang Rouge Louisiana, where gun battles between speeding cars make driving hazardous.

The fate of the festival in the land of four hundred and fifty million guns.