With his bullet-size-matters black shirt and his firepower ever-ready, this resident of a pleasant, planned community in Florida chats with the police as he enters, handcuffed, one of their cars.

They picked him up because his obnoxious honking at a guy in front of him in a parking lot – a guy who was simply waiting while someone pulled out of a spot – drew the guy out of his car. In a casual, polite way, the guy asked if the honker would be patient and stop honking at him. All of this was captured on security cameras.

The honker pulled out his handgun and aimed it right at the guy’s face. While screaming unspecified “vulgar” things.

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I think the big-bullet guy is this dude. Retired to Florida for sun and gun.

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Welp, the last of her kids that Tranyelle Harshman shot in the head (after which Harshman killed herself) has now, after suffering for a few days, died.

Tranyelle, notoriously mentally unbalanced, killed all four of them pointblank with a handy household gun that her family saw no reason to take out of the house despite her madness. “Though his wife had been undergoing treatment for her fragile mental state for several years, she hadn’t been able to move past it, [her husband] said.”

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No, hubby up and took a temporary job in California, leaving Tranyelle alone in their rather isolated Wyoming house – just her, her insanity, four little kids, and a Glock.

A Glock? Whatever. Maybe she used an AK-47 and really blasted the babies’ brains out. Why haven’t the authorities identified the firearm?

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Welp again: This is BIG news, and outlets all over the country have what to say about it, but virtually no one – and absolutely no one in gunny, astoundingly suicidal, Wyoming, has anything to say about a quadruple familicide made easy peasy with unlocked loaded guns fully available to a maniac.

Let us look at how our fellow Americans are rendering this event. “Olivia gained her angel wings yesterday,” announced the family at number four’s demise and OH MY. There are easy and hard ways to gain them, I guess, and God decided Olivia would do it the hard way, absorbing an agonizing slug from her own mother, and then laboring under a swollen bloody brain for days until her heart collapsed.

God wanted you for an angel. You, your sister, your other sister, and your other sister. And your mother?

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It’s the Godswerve. A lunatic with a gun bloodies up the house and — cue angels.

Exactly like gun-fanatic madman Olin Johnson, who took one of his billion household firearms and blew his wife and himself away.

Immediately after the bloodbath, his Mormon community invited everyone to a celebration of his life, asking that they bring “goodies to share” and “warm memories.”

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Or think of Andrew Humiston, 15 year old massacrist – killed 5! family members and only missed a sixth because she played dead – who took one of his father’s conveniently located guns to kill everybody. What was God on about, letting Andrew stalk and slay one screaming pleading family member after another? Why did the rest of the Humiston family lovingly note, in everybody’s obit, that they are survived by their murderer?

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All of these atrocity-reactions are best seen as bizarre subcultural self-comfortings, communities of people absolutely insistent on looking away from the carnage and swerving pronto to the angelic order. UD doesn’t begrudge them whatever all is forgiven God works in mysterious ways thing gets them through it; but how can the rest of us, how can a whole country bleeding from guns, play along? The focus has to be on the idiocy and negligence that put those death-dealers in the hands of maniacs.

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Update: So many other examples.

“Going berserk with guns has become an American way of life.”

Finally, on one obscure Facebook comment thread, UD encounters one – and so far only one – statement of the obvious. (Background here.)

Okay, further down the thread, here’s another:

If he knew of her horrible ptsd and depression why was there a gun she could get to?

Hey – getting somewhere. Here are others:

Sad the hubby knew of her mental illnesses, yet she had access to a gun.

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Why a gun in the home?

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 [S]aying his wife battled PTSD, post-partum depression, and general depression. Yet access to a gun was allowed! Lord!

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Still, comments in all FB threads I’ve looked at are overwhelmingly

1. Let God have the burden.
2. Post-partum’s a bummer.

Finally some states are prosecuting people for unlocked guns.

A not guilty plea was entered … on behalf of Tolbert, who also faces one count each of being a felon in possession of a firearm, being a felon in possession of ammunition, lying to a peace officer in a violent crime investigation and four counts of felony firearm.

That is, the law’s also a good way to suss out criminals.

But hey that ain’t no reason to put the guns away.

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[The mother’s ex-husband] said he had been fighting for full custody [of their two children] after his divorce of about four years ago.

Pity he didn’t get it. Did the mother’s current husband inform him of her severe mental health issues?

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It’s strange to me, but maybe I’m strange… in American terms. It’s strange to me, as I monitor responses to this hideous event (via various forms of social media), that no one has remarked in any way on this madwoman’s access to guns.

I mean, start with this: Two of the children would have had at least a fighting chance if the murderer had access only to knives or rope, or had to drown them… The two babies of course had no chance at all, no matter the method; but the 7 and 9 year olds might have had time to fight back or to flee if the method had been anything other than an instantaneous and crushingly lethal bullet. We don’t yet know what kind of gun she used, but there are plenty of weapons that would just wipe out the lives of these children in milliseconds, with one shot. Bang bang get the bigger ones first (one of them is currently clinging to life), and then it’s merely a matter of infants in their beds.

The murderer’s husband was apparently out of town, and though he knew his wife to be severely mentally ill, with generalized clinical depression plus post-partum depression…

Ecoute: Can it really be that the only thing Americans have to say about this event is God rest all of their souls? I mean, that sentiment, in different forms, is pretty much it as far as commentary goes. Quite a few people write variations on I know God has a plan, but at the moment it’s extremely hard to figure out what. No one even says Suicidal/homicidal psychotics shouldn’t be around guns. They don’t even venture that far.

Think of Naomi Judd’s suicide. She had longstanding, flagrant, self-destructive, mental illness. Am I really the only person who thinks it’s shocking that she had a loaded gun in her bedroom? Why is it strange to wonder why a 15 year old mass murderer had access to the gun that enabled him to execute five members of his family?

Ah cmon wheres yalls sense of fun.

You sleep, and the white noise is gunshots... That’s fucking poetic.

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How I stay young!

Willie Ann, 81 … has a routine for gunshots. She reaches for her cane, tries to rush toward a carpeted floor near her bed and gently lies down on her right side, where her arthritis does not flare up. When the shooting stops, she reaches for the top of the bed and hoists herself up.

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And remember: Always have more than one sofa.

During drive-by shootings, neighbors wedge themselves between sofas.

Not only did no one at a New Haven area abattoir report a bloody shooting there to the police; even the owners are refusing to talk to authorities.

UD is aware that she needs to adjust her brain cells — Guns are everywhere and shootings boringly routine. Why report them. Why be surprised when no one reports them.

Charlie Manson 2.0 continues to stalk the land, showing off the mortarial/sartorial splendor you can achieve in Vermont.

… at an adult education school. At least ten dead.

Judy Lee was smoking in [her Florida] living room and [her son] Michael Lee, who has asthma, began spraying Febreze.

Judy Lee pulled out a handgun and started firing at her son. Michael Lee ran into his bedroom, grabbed his own gun, and returned fire.

Parents who produce gun-bearing eleven year olds; school principals who lie about armed attacks on elementary school children: The USA has quite the perfect storm, yes? The principal’s original version was all about what a big strong man he is, the hero of his own myth… ie, he found the gun on one of his regular security sweeps. But no – A babe brought it from home and shot at a classmate, but the gun failed to go off. The almost-killed student told her teacher, who took the gun to the big strong man. The teacher was supposed to report the gun to the police, but look at that. Although one of her students was practically killed, she didn’t.

Neither did the principal, who handed down NO discipline against the shooter (I guess in order to protect his big strong man story) but did eventually show up at police headquarters with the gun and with his lie.

He doesn’t work at the school anymore, and the shooter (who bragged he’ll bring another gun and do it again) has been expelled. UD does wonder what other public school now has charge of this person; she also wonders why she’s not reading about his gunny parents and their liability.

Think it’s a one-off? Silly you.

Three naughty lads from the heartland headed out to Ohio’s Jungle Jim’s — a supermegasuperstore— and stole “candy, cookies and ice cream,” the scamps. Well, the boys in blue caught up with them, wouldn’t you know, and out popped Devin’s gun magazine! And not only that! Devin’s face got all red when they found a Glock in his jacket! Haha!

The Amarillo police have tried to get the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to shut down the abattoir where the latest mass shooting in America took place, but TABC’s too drunk to do anything. Or too rich from abattoir bribes. Keep the killing coming!

You wouldn’t want to impose any serious closing hours on your bars in a city where every drunk fucker has five guns; better to wait until two AM when everyone’s maximally drunk and concentrated in a chaotic nightclub with other violent people in order to insure a mass shooting.

This keeps happening in our gunniest, stupidest, bloodiest, cities – the late-night lounge loaded with bullets; the hours of bar-boosted boozing; bad behavior that finally gets you thrown out and makes you vengeful blahblahblah. Absolutely by the book. Absolutely happens every weekend somewhere in the states.

Cities with a flicker of brain activity have begun imposing relatively early closing hours on their abattoirs, but apparently Amarillo prides itself on its status as one of America’s most dangerous cities.