December 5th, 2025
Yes, yes, nothing to see here!

Gun Recovered Friday during Northwood High Lockdown, No Threat to School Community, Police Say

At a high school minutes away from UD‘s house, two students get in a fight and one pulls out a gun. But it’s certainly no threat to the school community that this little fucker plus plenty of others carry weapons on campus. Relax!

Friday was the second time this school year that Northwood High has been placed on lockdown. In September, administrators ordered a lockdown and secure status after reports of a weapon on campus. During that incident, a gun magazine, BB gun and a live 9 mm round were recovered from students. 

No metal detectors? Why not? And why nothing about expulsion of arms-bearing assholes? Waiting for them to kill someone before you ask them to leave?

November 30th, 2025
Pink horsie, barbed wire, baby blood —

The Stockton Look.

November 27th, 2025
Into Us is Thrust a Gun
Sing it!

Into us is thrust a gun
Glock of squire dipsomal
See the carolers run-run-run
As they sing of Mary's son
As they sing of Mary's son

November 25th, 2025
The Holly and the…

... Bushmaster.

November 24th, 2025
‘When shooting rats with a pellet gun…’

… sounds like the first line of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song:

When shooting rats with a pellet gun

Watch out for Temple Ben Zion.

And also something else the matter:

Windows hit by bullets shatter.

November 22nd, 2025
O Christmas Tree!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
Come gather, childen, pack the heat,
In winter’s cold and snow and sleet.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!

November 18th, 2025
‘At no point during this 90-minute movie about the products, courses, safety drills, and various other things that might help people survive a regular day in America does anyone suggest that we should try getting rid of the readily available mass-murder devices that shooters keep using for all of their mass-murdering needs, and that are basically manufactured for no other purpose than to commit mass-murder.’

A new documentary.

November 15th, 2025
‘The two people who were initially arrested in connection to [a mass] shooting were later ruled out as suspects. However, both were charged with carrying a firearm without a license.’

Good ol’ DC. Neither kid was the shooter, but they were both carrying firearms without a license. A little peek into life here.

November 14th, 2025
This is what a garden-variety psychotic break looks like in a country where everyone has easy access to a gun.

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.

November 11th, 2025
Oh look they got two of them.

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.

November 6th, 2025
That’s a lot.

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.

November 4th, 2025
“…..I saw a giant puddle of blood in the alley…I walked to the other side of the building, and there’s just a pistol sitting in the grass.”

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.

October 30th, 2025
Just SIX years old! And look what he did! All cuz his (now jailed) mother gave him access to a gun.

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.

October 28th, 2025
Really?

“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.

October 27th, 2025
‘The gun was seized and he was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and issued a deportation order.’

Italian meanies! He’s only trying to share the American way of life.

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