May 19th, 2026
‘Clark’s mother … reported her son and vehicle missing, alongside several of her weapons, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said. The mother said her son was suicidal…’

And you kept several accessible weapons in the home although you knew your son was suicidal because … ?

Bring charges against the mother.

May 18th, 2026
It’s rare that you get the absolute quintessence of the country, the beating heart of America…

… but in these few moments of police video, it pours out at you with the pure intensity of a child’s wail.

May 18th, 2026
‘It was unthinkable and it was unforeseeable.’

An assistant principal who ignored repeated warnings about a fucked up student who ended up shooting a teacher goes on trial this week for felony child abuse.

Her attorney in an earlier civil trial said that thing up there in my headline … that thing about how a six year old plugging his teacher is just unthinkable, man… I mean, this is America, land of sensible gun policy…

The assistant principal was found guilty in that case, and she’ll be found guilty in this one. UD doubts she’ll be sent to prison, but I suppose it’s possible.

Looks as though the trial will be televised, so we can all sit back and revisit those thinkable and foreseeable events.

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Well, that was quick. The judge just dismissed the charges.

May 14th, 2026
Expect the weenies at Whitman to return him to the classroom asap.

Pulled out his weapon at the local mall during a fight, and has been carrying it – loaded, scratched off serial number – throughout his school day at Walt Whitman High, pride of UD’s ‘thesda. Remember Whitman? UD’s old friend Rita Kosofsky taught literature there for three decades… Has a great academic rep…

But after he’s tried (as an adult) and given probation by the court weenies, he’ll be invited back to Whitman by the school weenies, and the many affluent parents of ‘thesda, realizing little Andre is no doubt one of several heavily armed teenagers at Whitman (which I guess sees itself as too ladidah for metal detectors), will take their kids out of harm’s way and the school’s rep will sink like a stone.

May 11th, 2026
‘[Mark] Mutter said he researched throughout New Jersey for other businesses offering alcohol on the same premises as gun ranges. He found none.‘

Ever the pioneer, New Jersey will provide a place for gunnies to get tanked up before grabbing multiple firearms and letting fly. This all-in-one, booze + Beretta entertainment model is strikingly southern, as in the famous Murdaugh family in SC, drunk out of their minds many evenings, while hoisting some of their hundreds of guns for wholesome family fun.

The Toms River town council loves the idea and wants naysayers like Mr Mutter to shut the fuck up.

May 4th, 2026
“[O]n April 20, a student stashed a semi-automatic pistol in a black backpack, brought it into Valley Forge High School, and fatally shot herself in a cafeteria of kids.”

‘[Schools are] taking all the funding that they’re getting and they’re putting in place cameras. Well, that’s great. I mean, now you have a video of this little girl committing this terrible act.”

A Valley Forge High School parent points out that while America lacks any real means to stop school shootings, it at least has the fun of watching them happen.

May 2nd, 2026
“How this young man at his age ended up with a loaded firearm…”

The speaker seems surprised that an eleven year old almost shot a Milwaukee city inspector to death. The eleven year old was trying to carjack him.

April 27th, 2026
Vermont: Where you’re never too crazy to…

… hit people in the head and threaten to shoot them with the 9-millimeter gun you’re holding. In a hospital’s emergency department.

Many certifiable lunatics are shooting at us. Ask the White House Correspondents.

Little Miss Rural Vermont and SOOOO many like her get little to no press coverage. But they’re busy resolving their rage issues at the local hospital and environs as we speak. Take care.

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Also, in Annals of American Heath Care:

Talley ultimately shot out a hospital window and fled on foot … A photograph obtained by the [Chicago] Sun-Times showed him running naked with electrodes on his chest. Prosecutors said he was found a short time later under a nearby porch.

An incredibly dangerous criminal hiding a gun is let into a hospital where he kills one cop and critically injures another.

April 26th, 2026
‘[I]nitially the correspondents’ association said it intended to continue the event. The idea that the show would go on – that people would come out from hiding under tables in a tux after a shooting – struck a chord about the regularity of gun violence in American life.’

Walk on through the slugs, walk on through the rounds! Though your guts be tossed and blown…

April 26th, 2026
So many mass shootings, constantly, the media has begun dividing them up in terms of setting.

Sunday’s shooting comes exactly a week after another mass shooting near the University of Iowa, another Midwest Big10 school.

This one, at Indiana University, happened a couple of hours ago.

April 25th, 2026
So the big shot mentalist Oz Pearlman didn’t foresee gunshots at the Correspondents Dinner?

I mean, he was sitting right up there with the president and all and his sensitive equipment picked up nothing?

Fuck, man, this is America. You don’t even need sensitive equipment to anticipate bangbang in any public setting. Shopping malls are shuttering across the United States cuz of all the exchange of fire (one local reporter was cruel enough to quote a chamber of commerce person about a dying mall: “[Nancy] Hafford said the crime rate is actually on the decline, and crime should not be a deterrent for mall shoppers.”); and even the expertly surveilled power structure of the free world can’t get through a dinner without pistol play/hysterical hiding under tables. Not very seemly, but when everyone’s got a gun [current number of guns in private hands 500 million plus], what do you expect?

April 24th, 2026
Surely you’re not surprised that three kids from a local private school got shot to bits cuz they went shopping at the local mall?

It’s Baton Rouge (I call it Sang Rouge)!

Lookee here. Let’s not have any fake surprise that the gunniest city in America’s gunniest state utterly expectedly produced a bunch of teenagers (ages 13 – 16? I’m guessing.) butchering the innocent.

Sang Rouge is SOOO bloody, so beyond bloody, so bodaciously bloodsoaked! Nuther big mass bloodletting jest tuther day (in Shreveport; those victims were from a few months to eight years old) in that dripping red state; and now Massacre at the Mall.

Hold onto your hats – gonna be a lot more Louisiana blood running red.

Politicians have hired speechwriters to come up with new ways for them to say Message: I care but fuck gun laws. “Draft 52 distinct tweets for me – one for every week of the year. No redundancy and keep it Christian.”

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Some nice detail here:

After shots echoed through the food court and sirens began blaring outside, shoppers sprinted out of the mall. Some women donned nylon capes as they darted out of the JCPenney hair salon, their hair half-done.

Nylon capes is good. And this paragraph answers the question What do Baton Rougeans do for exercise? Sprinting, darting.

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“We’re not going to have this in Baton Rouge,” says the mayor. Babe, you’ve had it for years and you’ll have it til the next Great Mississippi Flood washes the city away.

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Court records show that during a hearing Tuesday, Commissioner Jermaine Guillory allowed Washington to stop wearing a GPS ankle monitor and instead placed him on telephone-based supervision.

It’s beautiful to watch how no gun laws plus morally degenerate judges work together to insure that bloodthirsty bastards remain in circulation. Hat tip also to this gunny’s high school, which seems not to have expelled him despite a criminal history that included stealing a gun that went off inside a classroom.

”Guillory said when the 18-year-old returns to court in July, he wants to see him with his high school diploma, a job, safe, healthy and out of jail.” Ain’t dat sweet!

He’s on the state bar board of governors! An inspiration to us all.

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Oh. Well! Why didn’t you say so in the first place, Guillory?

April 23rd, 2026
‘The few people inside the mall Monday told The N&O that shoppers will likely shy away from Triangle Town Center in the wake of the violence, but they also noted that both Crabtree Valley Mall and Streets of Southpoint in Durham have experienced shootings.’

LOLOLOL.

April 20th, 2026
Yup. Every single one of ‘em. That y’all and shut ma mouth land. The Land of the Rising Gun.

Mass shootings in 2026

Incident DateStateCity Or CountyAddressVictims KilledVictims InjuredSuspects KilledSuspects InjuredSuspects ArrestedOperations
April 19, 2026LouisianaShreveport355 W 79th St82100N/A
March 22, 2026TexasAmarillo1901 NW 14th Ave44100N/A
February 28, 2026TexasEdinburg10500 block of Hwy 10742000N/A
February 10, 2026FloridaSarasota4822 Fallcrest Cir60100N/A
February 7, 2026TexasPlainview2700 block of Upchurch St40100N/A
January 23, 2026GeorgiaLawrenceville1031 Brook Ivy Ct40001N/A
January 9, 2026MississippiCedarbluff123 David Hill Rd60

April 20th, 2026
Another staggeringly obvious gun-loving loon wanders through no-gun-laws Louisiana drunk, getting arrested a lot, challenging people at gunpoint, telling do-nothing relatives he’s seriously fucked up…

.. and, once he reaches the breaking point he TOLD people he was reaching, he takes one of his guns (Louisiana is certainly not going to deprive violent insane gunnies of their guns) and murders eight children.

One of them was found on a roof, having tried to escape.

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