Quintessential American event the other day: Super Bowl. It lacked only one element to make it totally American.
Ah.
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Update: 21 injured, eight critically.
Let’s see if we can figure out what this was. Er, Kansas City is incredibly bloody. Guns going off all the time killing everyone in sight. So we can hardly be surprised by this massacre, no? We should probably be grateful there weren’t bunches of little massacres popping out all over the parade.
As to motive… LOL. Motive. A bunch of drunk/high assholes, average age 18, got excited, started tussling and talking shit, and one got pissed off but really just wanted to pull out his AK 47 and for once USE the fucker rather than just shlep it around with him everywhere. That’s my guess.
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Update #2: So far your blogeuse is exactly right. But then she’s been following American carnage for a long time and knows how these things go. Sixteen year olds are totally welcome to openly carry machine guns in Missouri; the legislature totally loves streets running with the blood of dead and dying toddlers. It’s the Missouri way.
Ms. Crumbley, 45, was convicted on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, one for each of the four students who were shot to death by her son at Oxford High School on Nov. 30, 2021. The son, Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time, used a pistol to kill Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Justin Shilling, 17; and Hana St. Juliana, 14. Seven other people were injured. The gun was a gift from his parents.
She could – and should – get fifteen years. As I said in an earlier post, she’ll do the world some good by scaring the shit out of other fucked up gunnies who reproduced.
Let’s hope so. Let’s hope the current high-profile involuntary manslaughter trial scares the bejaysus out of America’s most cretinous heatpackers.
Hey hon says dad as he watches the Crumbleys carted off to jail, maybe we shouldn’t give our violent, schizophrenic kid an AK47 for Christmas…
But you wouldn’t want to mess with the special magic that is guns, gangs, and late night clubs… Let’s do nothing and see if things improve…
After all, the club’s gone to a lot of trouble to keep guns out.
[There are] up to 20 guards on duty, two armed guards outside, two pat-downs at the door, a metal detector and more than 80 surveillance cameras.
And yet the lads keep getting in with guns!
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Hold on. Maybe Buffalo is ready to act…
After the fourth shooting at or around Club Marcella this year, the City of Buffalo has shut down the popular nightclub.… [The shootings all took place] … in less than a year. On January 29, a security guard was shot in the parking lot. Two weeks later on February 12, one person was killed and two others were injured in a shooting inside the club. The third happened in October.
See? That’s all it takes to shut an American night club down.
… The only thing missing, for the compleat Republican leadership scandal, is three-way sex.
… to the tranquil music she studied and loved.
One of many lost.
… first kills his father, and then fifteen or twenty people (some of the injured will die) on the campus of Prague’s Charles University. He was a student there. He killed himself as police neared.
Used a big ol’ sniper rifle and did a Charles Whitman – picked everyone off from a rooftop.
Wow! Four months without shootouts in the street! The city of UD’s birth is really knocking it out of the park.
No better way to do that than point three guns at them and tell them they’re going to die.
Look at ’em scoot!!
This is a subtle and sensitive examination of the gun suicide epidemic, featuring Bob Owens, whose death was hypertypical.
[A] journalist who was friends with Owens said that many gun owners [like Owens] are afraid to tell doctors about their mental-health struggles, because they worry someone will take their weapons away.
Eh bien. UD’s heart goes out to these silent, lost, sufferers, but their logic’s a bit skewed. Surely they know they are overwhelmingly unlikely to need their twenty firearms for self-defense; surely they know (or at least intuit?) that those guns are far more likely to be used by someone in their home for suicide.
They may even know that the act will be impulsive – one drunk self-hating night; the failure to complete some task or other; a bad fight with your wife. Gun, stage left.
And it wouldn’t even be about taking the weapons away. It would be about temporarily locking them up until a crisis passed. But even that…
What does one say about flagrantly suicidal people who refuse to go to doctors and refuse to put away their guns?
