August 31st, 2024
On the Frequency of Hatcheting in Downtown Minneapolis.

“There’s like a whole section of downtown Minneapolis that they call Little Mogadishu … People are frequently hatcheted to death in the street.” J.D. Vance

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The frequency of hatcheting in downtown Minneapolis

Baffles sociologists and other urban analysts

The normative behavior is mass murder with a gun

What motivates these deviants who don’t know how it’s done?

August 31st, 2024
‘So what happens when not one but a dozen [police] officers are all banging away at the [gun] range? I’m a die-hard gun guy, but after two tours in Afghanistan I can tell you that sudden bursts of gunfire throughout the day gets obnoxious fast. Then it gets unsettling. An outdoor range in the midst of a neighborhood will expose children and adults alike to emotional and psychological harm of the worst kind.’

Talk about a candidate for re-education camp. Go here, lad:


‘[T]he occasional crackle of the firing range is almost soothing.’

August 30th, 2024
“When you go to the restroom, you have to go through a certain procedure to be able to do that when you have all your equipment on. And at times, you know, you’re human — you have something on your mind…. But being arrested for being human is not ideal.”

An elderly constable in a commode

Unholstered his big loaded Glock

That was the only way that he knowed

To free up his piss-swollen cock

But – you know – he’s human

Had something on his mind

Tried to recall lines from Schumann…

And then he was needing to dry his behind

Cuz he had to do

Numbers One and Two

“Ah! That’s better! And now lemme

Forget for the rest of the day that I left my semi

Out here for all the little tykes

Who come to court on school field trips

And find a toy to let them strike

Classmates who give them lip.”

August 17th, 2024
OUR TEAM WON!!!!

Overcome by emotion, a mother at the Laney/Westside High School football game grabs her child and rolls around the bleachers with glee!

Details here!

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Fans CAN’T WAIT to run home and tell their friends all about it!

Oh whoooops. Same school, coupla years ago!

August 6th, 2024
You can read this long mad bloody narrative and never encounter…

… one reference to anyone doing anything to take the massacrist’s guns away.

Everyone did one hell of a lot of praying, though.

August 6th, 2024
The Family that Shoots Together Loots Together

Last December we ran this adorable Ogles family photo. Now the FBI’s raiding Andy Ogles’ house in search of evidence of campaign finance fraud.

Watch for Andy to blow his head off when things with the feds get too hot. Also shooting the wife and kids seems a popular option these days.

July 29th, 2024
And he’s just getting started!

Only 14, with so many years ahead of him.

Pinellas deputies have arrested a 14-year-old boy on a first-degree murder charge after they say he shot and killed a woman with his father’s gun last week… [T]he 14-year-old confessed to shooting Fernandez at random and said he got the gun from his father’s bedroom…

July 29th, 2024
Now that’s more like it.

UD lately has featured preppy upbeat mugshots, but here’s one that’s simply …vintage. Our man hails from the barrens of Stanton Nebraska. He likes to get shitfaced, leave his feloniously owned shotgun at home, mount his ATV, and bomb through local streets.

[A] four-wheeler was observed being operated recklessly at high speeds and running multiple stop signs near the Stanton County courthouse.

Sheriff Mike Unger, who was on foot in the area, attempted to stop the four-wheeler near 7th and Jackpine, but the driver failed to do so and nearly struck the Sheriff as he accelerated away from the residential area at 70 to 80 mile an hour estimated speeds.

…  [The charges are] speeding, multiple stop sign and ATV violations, willful reckless driving, and driving while intoxicated-2nd offense. He was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm after … a search warrant at his residence turned up a shotgun and ammunition.

Somebody forgot to smile!

July 23rd, 2024
Soon to be an everyday occurrence

LA Police Officers Shot During Traffic Stop With AR-15

July 17th, 2024
Birmingham AL: 5 for 5


“We had five homicides in the first five days of July.”

To bring the point home, Mayor Randall Woodfin displayed the city’s armes de choix:

At one point, Woodfin swung [an] AR-15 in a way that caused some council members to ask him to not point the weapon in their direction. “Council, I apologize – I didn’t mean to,” Woodfin said. “I’m sorry.”

When he picked up [a] Micro Draco, he said, “Finger’s not on the trigger, everybody,” to calm any nerves. “Nowhere near it.”

July 16th, 2024
‘Because we live in an insane country, military sniper rifles are marketed to civilians who lack any good reason to own one. Had Crooks been a sophisticated … killer …, Trump would probably be dead now. Thankfully, Crooks was not, and Trump received only a minor wound to his outer ear. Crooks was fairly clumsy with guns—so much so, two high school classmates told ABC News, that he was rejected by the school’s rifle team. “He didn’t just not make the team,” one classmate said. “He was asked not to come back because of how bad a shot he was. It was considered, like, dangerous.” The AR-15 and its ilk are frequently the gun of choice for this variety of psychopath because it makes up in destructiveness what it lacks in precision.’

Timothy Noah.

July 14th, 2024
And now, back to our regularly scheduled …

… programming.

July 13th, 2024
Like massacres at Mafia funerals…

… double-decker death becomes more frequent in gun-soaked America. Here, a few miles from UD, attendees are killed at a memorial for three people who were killed.

Let’s go for another! Let’s do a massacre at the funeral of the person who was killed at the memorial of the three people.

This is fun! Let’s shoot down witnesses testifying in the trial of the shooter at the memorial service!!

Parents in the United States are buying bulletproof backpacks, children are being traumatized by mass shooting drills, and an increasing number of people stay away from crowded events because they’re worried they’re going to be shot.

As long as enough sitting ducks are still willing to go to parties, parades, memorial services, etc., etc., America will keep its appointment with death.

July 12th, 2024
Post-latest-massacre, a local Kentucky reporter addresses the bloodthirsty hounds.

Gun violence is not “unfathomable evil” and will not be stopped with thoughts or prayers or burying good gun legislation in the basement of the Capitol. 

Gun violence is fathomable and preventable, and it continues to go unchecked here in Kentucky because our GOP supermajority, in their unfathomable cowardice, refuses to grow up and address it.

July 11th, 2024
Teehee. Love all the shit about how did he get a gun.

Lots of articles like this in the aftermath of the latest bloodbath. A notorious, dangerous, felon! How in the world….?

 I burst out laughing at you, and call your gun-availability question a silly thing!  (Paraphrasing Monty Python.) Little Chase no doubt lived in a house where everyone ate, slept, shaved, showered, beat off, and shit with guns. ‘Member the gun-glutted Murdaughs? Boy I say boy ain’t no one down in y’all and shut ma mouth land who ain’t stewing in guns every minute of every god damn day and you wanna know how a twenty year old psychotic with a violent record got a gun? How did he not get a gun? How in Florence KY do you avoid having a gun?

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