Good ol’ DC. Neither kid was the shooter, but they were both carrying firearms without a license. A little peek into life here.
On NY’s Upper East Side, a twenty-year old, probably suffering the onset of schizophrenia, gets hold of a gun and staggers about here and there, pointing it at random people.
There are many ways to freak out, but in the US – even in states with some gun-control – it’s just so easy to scare the shit out of the world as you go down.
He eventually fired the gun at the police, which ended the incident and his life.
Goodrum told detectives that the night before the incident she had been drinking alcohol and grabbed her handgun, an arrest affidavit states. She said she was not wearing clothing that had a waistband and placed the gun under the couch cushion in the living room, according to the document.
Goodrum said she forgot to remove the gun from underneath the cushion.
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Mom hits the bottle and Dad’s a convicted felon in possession of firearms. Surely someone can take their already bullet-riddled kids away from them before this pair finishes them off.
A cool ten million is awarded to the elementary school teacher bloodied almost to death by her six year old student, a demented child in possession of a gun his now-jailed mother made available to him.
The assistant principal who ignored an obviously lethal situation will… what? Find ten million dollars? So the legal stuff will drag on.
Florida’s gunny venues power-wash the sidewalk blood right away after shootouts, but Ohio is slower. So here you’ve got this guy who lives across from a Cincinnati abattoir-hookah club complaining that it’s still all red and smeary outside when he gets up in the morning. It’s like that scene in War of the Worlds when the hero goes outside and the aliens have gooped all the trees.
The footage, which WTKR has chosen not to release, depicts a frenzied, bloody scene, with [Abigail] Zwerner lying on the ground while officers perform life-saving measures.
“No one could have imagined that a 6-year old, first-grade student would bring a firearm into a school,” Parker’s attorney, Daniel Hogan, told jurors.
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It’ll be fun to watch this one. Of course we’ll cover it on University Diaries.
Italian meanies! He’s only trying to share the American way of life.
Bullets are in the air as our universities (most recently, Lincoln and Howard) do homecoming the American way.
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This guy thinks you should separate the warring factions. Ain’t gonna happen. Schools like LSU are very little other than football/tailgating/drinking/shooting. Folks aren’t gonna like it if you interfere.
And it’s certainly keeping up the good work – Thirteen people were shot at an enormous party last night, with two dead and a bunch in critical condition. Concentrate enough drunk gunny dipshits in one place down south and this will tend to happen.
Suicidewise, nothing beats a gun range.
Hell man, get with the program. Normalizing the sound of gunfire is America’s middle name.
Usually suicide reporting out of the Dead Cowboy State fails to mention guns AT ALL; but the local public radio station is at least willing to quote some guy on the subject.
Getting somewhere, Wyoming!
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But don’t get too excited.
Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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