December 17th, 2024
All of it’s out there for anyone to see. A bit late now. Feast your eyes.

An X account believed to belong to Rupnow included a post shared within minutes of the time she opened fire featuring a person flashing the “OK” sign with their hand, a gesture linked to other school shooters, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The account also shared video from the 2015 Trollhattan, Sweden, school stabbing attack, and another disturbing post days before the Madison slayings includes a video of somebody committing suicide at a gun range

An account on social blogging platform Tumblr also believed to be connected to Rupnow features images of guns and other school shooting-related content, including a profile picture showing what appears to be a screenshot of surveillance footage from a shooting, authorities told ABC News.

The account also posted a picture of Parkland high school shooter Nicholas Cruz, and other posts mention a deadly 2007 school shooting in Jokela, Finland.

A CashApp account also reportedly linked to Rupnow features a picture of the Columbine shooters.


Her father, asked by a Facebook user if that was “Kiddo’’ in his shooting-range snapshot, replied, “sure is!!!!

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We have so many insane gun babies in this country that there’s no way we can really see them coming anymore. Most of their parents of course know all about them. But they don’t care.

December 17th, 2024
Durham NC, aka the San Francisco of the East Coast…

… boasts a DA who learned everything she knows from Chesa Boudin. Durham’s DA doesn’t typically prosecute felons with violent pasts who are found with guns cuz it’s just so not nice.

It’s always good to remind ourselves that America’s daily butcher bill is brought to us courtesy of the political left as well as the political right.

December 17th, 2024
Sing it.
O give your fucked up kid a gun, a gun
Let her practice neath the setting sun
And then when inner sounds command
She'll traverse o'er this gunny land.


Because she feels a little riled
She'll kill a teacher, kill a child
Tis what you raised her up to be
Your psychotic mini-me.
December 16th, 2024
Abundant Death

Little tyke w/ a handgun kills two and injures more than that at Abundant Life Christian School.

Wonder how the – what? – fifteen year old got the guns. She had two. Thinking it has to do with maw and paw. Who probably should be preparing themselves for their involuntary manslaughter trial.

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Female shooter.

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While her parents look for a defense lawyer, the school prepares itself for a big ol lawsuit from the parents of dead and injured students.

 [C]ameras in the building [are] regularly monitored, but the school [does] not have metal detectors. [S]tudents who attend the school [are] “visually scanned” as they arrive on campus each day. 

December 12th, 2024
From one of many post-Mangione discussions.

[S]cam culture thrives amid the insecurity our health care system creates! One thing alternative medicine does is make people feel like their needs are being seen and addressed, even if they’re being addressed in bogus ways. There’s a direct link between people’s disgust with the health care system and the dangerous rise of R.F.K. Jr.

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[S]ince when did a troubled young American man need a coherent political theory to start shooting? 

December 9th, 2024
At least his death had meaning.

[W]itnesses at the laundromat on Saturday said Coriz got into an argument with a male juvenile and two female juveniles over use of a washing machine, which escalated into a fight. 

December 6th, 2024
Brianne probably wants to kill her kid…

… but not be incarcerated for murder, so she came up with this.

December 4th, 2024
Cultural Diversity is so Invigorating!

In America, you could have two opposing armies exchanging fire in a nightclub and no one would ever dream of revoking its license.

In England, just one wittle gunfight and BAM. Down comes the iron fist of the state!

December 2nd, 2024
I forgot that the bag I was carrying into the US Capitol had four ammunition magazines and eleven rounds of ammunition in it.

I’m a high-ranking, highly-paid congressional staffer with a responsible, sensitive, job, and I forgot that I put four ammunition magazines and eleven rounds of ammunition in my bag.

December 2nd, 2024
Awwwwwww…

Police are investigating a quadruple shooting at a Hollywood baby shower that left two people dead and two others hospitalized early Sunday morning.

November 29th, 2024
‘Palmer told the officer he was confused over the laws on when he can pull his firearm out and use it to intimidate a person.’

This one’s from Oklahoma. A driver got pissed when a woman in front of him was kind enough to let another vehicle go in front of her, so the driver drove up next to the woman and aimed his gun at her.

As you see, he explained to the police that he only wanted to intimidate her — maybe she’ll think twice in the future about letting other drivers into her lane — not shoot her to death.

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Oh. This one’s also OK. How do you go on a retreat in Oklahoma?

[S]everal people saw [a local football coach] point a gun at [another coach], who was in a hot tub at the time. The affidavit says [Forrest] Mazey fired a shot outside of the cabin the coaches were staying at in McCurtain County.

… The affidavit says several witnesses heard Mazey making jokes while pointing the gun at the victim.

“Kind of made fun of the situation, laughed about it, made fun of him for being scared,” said [one source].

You pussy!

November 23rd, 2024
Update: The U Wyoming Board of Trustees Votes to Keep the Campus Safe from Concealed Carry.

See this post for background.

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The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees voted 6-5 Friday against allowing concealed carry in certain areas of campus, setting up a likely future confrontation with a Legislature that’s increasingly pushed to ease gun restrictions.

The vote followed strong opposition from students, staff, faculty and other community members who cited concerns over safety, gun violence, declining enrollment, mental health issues and campus culture. 

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Well lookee there. Vote was as close as close can be, but EVEN IN WYOMING the obscenity of concealed carry is occasionally recognized.

Now you know next thang UW trustees is gonna do is GET RID OF THEM GIRLS on the BOT cuz if you look at the vote breakdown, it was them squishy ladies done did the dirty. Only one guy voted with the gals; pro-concealed was hunderd percent male. GIRLS OFF THE BOT!!

November 20th, 2024
On the Dallas roads.

Article.

November 20th, 2024
Meanwhile, in Pitt County, NC…

“We have some radical people in our neighborhood that just don’t know how to act with guns. These neighbors continue to shoot anytime. My grandchildren cannot stay in the yard and play. Have to come in the house because these shots being fired and not knowing where these bullets go.”

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It’s gotten so bad that neighbors – who can’t go outside – have complained to the Board of Commissioners, who of course don’t give a shit but have managed to eke out a lil statement about how gun safety is definitely a good thing.





Interesting that one of the complainants uses the word “radical.” How radical, though, is it in a country of four hundred million privately owned guns and virtually no gun control in much of our territory – hell, gun encouragement in a lot of places – for some people to take out their guns every day and shoot them off in random directions? We can all identify with the glee they must feel at knowing they’re scaring the shit out of their neighbors; and making endless explosive noises in heavily populated areas is also a universal delight.

Guns mean to frighten people, and if you don’t like feeling fear, you should get out of NC and move to some squishy state like Massachusetts where they don’t let people shoot ARs into nearby homes and yards.

November 20th, 2024
‘Authorities found two loaded 12 gauge shotguns, an AR-style rifle, another unmarked gun and various types of gun ammunition.’

So you’re a lesbian couple and your next door neighbor hates lesbians.

Now add the arsenal in my headline and wait for the madman’s mood to darken about the two of you until he starts pointing one of those guns at you and your children.

See, when this guy gets – what – a suspended sentence for terroristic threatening, let’s say, he goes right back home to his AR even more pissed, cuz you called the cops on him and almost made him go to prison and, you know, he buys more big guns and more ammo and you just get snug and prepare for his next assault on your family.

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