February 19th, 2024
‘It’s heartbreaking that my daughter woke up three days in a row so excited about the parade, and instead she now has the memory of kids her exact age being shot at the parade she was so excited about.’

If everyone at every parade in America were carrying a gun, we would be so much safer.

February 16th, 2024
In response to the age of the Super Bowl parade killers (both are younger than eighteen), the Missouri legislature will demand…

… no lower age limit on the carry and use of any gun.

“The only limit I can think of,” remarked Rep. Travis Smithson (Pemiscot), “is you know say a five year old… He’s going to have trouble hoisting and shooting an AK 47, but we’re also calling for non-mandatory training sessions for toddlers, pre-teens, and teenagers in the handling of assault rifles. It’s also pretty clear these boys the other day didn’t have body armor, which is important for self-defense while shooting. Training sessions will introduce our state’s shooters to various forms of protection.”

February 14th, 2024
‘One Dead, Nine Injured In Super Bowl Parade Shooting: Fire Department’

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.

February 13th, 2024
‘Sulaiman’s attorney [said] his client forgot the gun was in his truck when [he] was on campus…’

That pesky lil thang! Always forgettin bout it.

February 6th, 2024
The Butcher’s Bill

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.

February 3rd, 2024
‘“This case is a very dangerous one for parents out there,” [warned Jennifer Crumbley’s defense lawyer.]’

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…

January 27th, 2024
‘[P]olice have been called to Club Marcella 45 times this year [2023]. One call was for a deadly shooting, 14 calls were for assault and 8 calls were for threats.’

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.

January 25th, 2024
Lying, pulling rank; plus speed, alcohol, and guns…

… The only thing missing, for the compleat Republican leadership scandal, is three-way sex.

January 20th, 2024
“I don’t condone what my daughter and her friends did, but I feel like the teacher could have handled the situation in so many other ways,” said Ashleigh, one of the kids’ mothers. 

Could have used one of her smaller handguns.

December 27th, 2023
Listen, in memory of Lenka Hlávková, massacred in the prime of life by a madman with a gun…

… to the tranquil music she studied and loved.

One of many lost.

December 21st, 2023
A maniac with a gun…

… 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.

December 20th, 2023
“[T]here have not been any instances of gun violence in Curtis Bay in more than 4 months, due to an increase[d] police presence and engagement with residents.”

Wow! Four months without shootouts in the street! The city of UD’s birth is really knocking it out of the park.

December 19th, 2023
‘Working at a Dunkin’, you can be rewarded for serving guests and keeping them running!’

No better way to do that than point three guns at them and tell them they’re going to die.

Look at ’em scoot!!

December 19th, 2023
‘Terry Fitzgerald, one of several plaintiffs named, said in the lawsuit that he often walked through neighborhood parks, around lakes and trails “carrying his concealed weapon.” He said he stays away now because he cannot defend himself.’

No more going outside in crime-ridden Nebraska for me! Too dangerous out there.

December 19th, 2023
‘[T]here have been fights between folks in the crowd at the Griffin vs. Spalding basketball games in recent years. … Back in October, a 15-year-old student was shot and killed after the same rivalry match in football.’

No fans allowed to a high school football game in Georgia. Guns keep going off.

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