And you kept several accessible weapons in the home although you knew your son was suicidal because … ?
Bring charges against the mother.
And you kept several accessible weapons in the home although you knew your son was suicidal because … ?
Bring charges against the mother.
… but in these few moments of police video, it pours out at you with the pure intensity of a child’s wail.
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.
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.
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.
‘[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.
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.
… 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.
Walk on through the slugs, walk on through the rounds! Though your guts be tossed and blown…
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.
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?
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?
| Incident Date | State | City Or County | Address | Victims Killed | Victims Injured | Suspects Killed | Suspects Injured | Suspects Arrested | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 19, 2026 | Louisiana | Shreveport | 355 W 79th St | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| March 22, 2026 | Texas | Amarillo | 1901 NW 14th Ave | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| February 28, 2026 | Texas | Edinburg | 10500 block of Hwy 107 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| February 10, 2026 | Florida | Sarasota | 4822 Fallcrest Cir | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| February 7, 2026 | Texas | Plainview | 2700 block of Upchurch St | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| January 23, 2026 | Georgia | Lawrenceville | 1031 Brook Ivy Ct | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | N/A |
| January 9, 2026 | Mississippi | Cedarbluff | 123 David Hill Rd | 6 | 0 |
.. 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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