… with the usual massive windowless Brutalist suspects; of course, Boston’s City Hall Plaza and its evil twin, DC’s FBI building, continue to dominate the rankings.
While scrolling through images, UD discovered MIT’s Simmons Hall – a dorm – and she was excited to see that this project
… wait — THIS project
is a noteworthy part of the country’s emergent Mortar and Pistol school of architecture, where (in this case) the walls are pockmarked by bullets, and there are generous platforms for sniper nests.
More broadly, M&P design incorporates guns of all kinds into its symbolic forms.
It’s like – what sort of city lets that happen? Has no control of locations that WILL be mass murder sites? It’s like it’s … a fucking menu for mass murder. UD doesn’t get it.
It’s the little stories, the overlooked minor social interactions, that make gun-gorged America what it is; and ol’ UD definitely sees it as part of her blog-mandate to share some of these with you. Otherwise you’re unlikely to grasp what it actually means to live in a country with five hundred million guns. You’re unlikely to get a feel for the homeland’s daily communal reality. You’re likely to content yourself with being spooked by mass shootings; but there’s so much more to The American Story.
Tiffs over parking spots, for instance, can end in gunplay now.
Perry [Georgia] police say Anna McPherson confronted VanWormer [the article only gives her last name] over a parking spot and pulled a gun during the dispute, aiming it at both the mother and child.
McPherson banged on VanWormer’s window with the firearm and continued the threat… . [At one point, she] looked at VanWormer’s son and said, “You’re about to be motherless.”
‘Course she was bonded out asap without anyone notifying VanWormer, who gets to continue panicking about this fucker hunting her down. And yes the POS faces some charges, but Georgia’s judges love guns FAR too much to put away a nice lady with a Glock.
Had my one year old with me. Glad we left before this all went down.
Seriously why do people take guns to a fair?
This is so messed up. This is suppose to be a family fun event not for stupid people to be started crap and shooting people up in front of innocent people. Pretty soon there isn’t going to be anything for us to take our kids to because of this. So sad.
Can’t even enjoy fairs anymore. Summit County Fairgrounds had several incidents, with Stark County Fair and several others coming up. Anyway to increase security? “Random pat downs” , metal detector wands?
It was a miserable experience tonight kids out of control
It happened right in front of me. Once in a year thing, ruined.
Their dorms are alive with the sound of murder, all because LSU doesn’t give a shit who it recruits for football as long as they can play the game.
This is a very old story, one that UD has blogged about for years: LSU routinely recruits criminals. It really doesn’t care. Players come from bloody cities like Alexandria LA and bring their big guns with them.
Sometimes they bring their friends, too, like a recent recruit who turned out to be hiding two buddies – both murder suspects – in his dorm room. Big ol’ guns too? Big ol’ guns too.
Mr UD helpfully points out that my confident assumption the Anaconda Montana mass murderer was dead, up in them thar hills, was dead wrong. They’ve captured him.
**********************
His niece speaks up:
“We as people failed… failed to report suspicious behavior because ‘that’s just Mikee’…”
Man, it’s gotta be said that when dangerous people are heavily armed, living in a place where being visibly heavily armed is no big deal, you got BIG problems.
The higher bond happened (a million bucks), but UD thinks the prosecuting attorney means cannot be overstated, cuz it’s hard to know how much higher you can go than 73 unsecured guns, multiple explosive devices, and plenty of methamphetamine all over a house with two kids, in an attached townhouse community.
Barbara, a reader, sent me this story out of Washington State, and UD is grateful she did, since these facts, in this our current USA, don’t add up to a big enough story to have appeared in UD‘s Google News searches…
His four year old son took Neff’s Glock from under his arm while he was sleeping (sleeping here is a euphemism for in meth oblivion), wandered over to the bathroom where his mother was showering, and shot her in the arm. Not sure who called the police (the father was still noticeably out of it when they arrived), but searching the house must have been quite a hoot.
Notice no neighbors have yet appeared before news cameras to say Well, they kind of kept to themselves but they seemed okaybecause… because why? WHY? I’ll tell you why! They don’t want to get detonated by their very own private Hitler, as in, THEY ARE SCARED FUCKING SHITLESS.
******************
And what to do with the children? Hm hm hmmmm. They love Daddy Demento! They love Dishrag Mom who, you know, KNOWS there’s something… uh, WRONG with Daddy and the guns and the meth and the bombs and the sketches he draws of murdering the neighbors but she loves him and he needs her and after all he’s not wrong that life sucks and killing yourself and your family I mean he’d never DO it but she can understand how …
What to do with the children when it’s actually hard to imagine a more disgusting domestic setting? Everyone hates the idea of foster care, so we have to hope there’s at least one non-degenerate family member or very close friend who knows and loves the children… ?
On the up side, Master Meth is out of the picture; someone else is going to have to clean and care for his 73 weapons while he’s in jail for the next ten years. But state officials have sympathy (we all do) for Women Who Love Not Wisely But Too Well, and while she will be facing drug/negligence/whatever charges, she probably won’t get any jail time…
OTOH it’s only a matter of time before she falls in love with someone even worse (let’s assume she’s also addicted to meth) and invites him to help raise the little ones plus he’ll knock her up a few times. No good options for the two innocents.
We’re revisiting the Red River massacre of 2023 — after which the town of Red River NM, population 500, decided no longer to host the Red River biker rally, attendees 28,000 — because the Sturgis SD biker/GUN rally is just wrapping up… And UD wouldn’t mind knowing how that went, public safety-wise.
This was Day One. How did the rest of the week go? I’ll try to find out.
SOOO not my world. (Although Anaconda’s county voted – just barely – for Kamala Harris!) But give me a Montana minute here; let a blue coastal elite take a gander at our country’s deep red, Number One For Suicide, state, as one of its towns grapples with a mass murder.
Lane “Shorty” Ruegamer, a regular at the Owl [Bar, site of the massacre], said he doubted Brown would attempt a return to Anaconda.
“He knows that every person down at the bottom of that hill has guns, and there’s no doubt in my mind that every person does,” Ruegamer said.
Yeah but see here Shorty you’re thinking rationally; the paranoid schizophrenic who killed your buddies is a maniac who does not think rationally, ja? He comes bombing back into town, naked, trailing the dead birds he’s been snacking on, and announcing he’s a visitor from the neolithic era; and before you can say Heckler & Koch HK G11 ACR he’s killing you and your kids.
That’s the problem with arming crazy people – don’t make no never mind how many weapons you’ve stored up. They’re going to surprise you. It took a raving lunatic to just park his car in the middle of Park Avenue and just walk up to folks in a Manhattan lobby and just powpowpow … That’s fucking nuts and that’s why it worked so well. Your local killer’s not going Oh everyone’s got guns so I better stay clear. He doesn’t think the way you do, and maybe if your local police/medical establishment had hold of that fact a little earlier…
‘Adam Turck, 35, was shot Saturday morning while intervening in a domestic dispute he came across while walking his dog in Shockoe Bottom. When Turck intervened, a 19-year-old male produced a gun from a backpack and shot him.‘
Turck was a high-profile, much-beloved actor in the local theater scene; Shockoe Bottom is the most notorious neighborhood in a bunch of notorious violent Richmond neighborhoods. Note that his killing took place in the morning; you don’t have to wait until dark to get blown away in Richmond.
Read this for the cultural reality behind the killing.
‘Many [young people] aren’t coming for the clubs or bars. They’re just there, hanging out in the streets and often armed. There’s no event, no promoter, no leadership. Just music, cars, and open carry.
From a public safety standpoint, it’s a mess. From a business standpoint, it’s a slow death.
… One of the biggest changes? Guns.
Open carry is legal in Virginia. And the kids know it. The result is a flood of social media videos: AR-15s slung over shoulders, Glocks waved on Snapchat, drill videos filmed just blocks from where someone might be trying to have a date night.
“It’s not even about protection anymore,” [says one observer]. “It’s status.”
… . “People don’t feel safe,” he [says]. “And when that happens, nobody comes downtown.”
The deeper fear, though, the one no one wants to say out loud, is that one of these nights, it won’t just be posturing. It’ll be a shootout.‘
