To be killed in Mississippi is so common as to be a banality. It’s number one in the nation for homicides, with 23.7 killings per 100,000 people. Basically, entering into a conversation with anyone anywhere on any subject in the state of Mississippi stands a reasonable chance of blowing you away.
Um. Why wouldn’t they be? Why is this a headline? Why is this news?
Oh because another nut with a gun fired shots outward from inside the club.
The bullets spew fast and furious at Cincinnati’s Roselawn neighborhood hookah joints, where a gunfight broke out on Saturday at one bar, and another gunfight broke out at another bar on Sunday.
The [Sunday] shooting scene is only a few feet away from another shooting that happened at a Roselawn bar around 3 a.m. Saturday morning.
Only a few feet away! And gunfire both weekend nights right there!
Do you think the city of Cincinnati has a little bit of interest in vaguely acknowledging what they’ve got going there? You have to figure there have been tons of fights at those bars that don’t end in gunfire and therefore don’t make the papers… And it’s just a remarkable fact about gunny USA that city councils don’t do shit.
But of course they’re waiting for a real body count. Two or three injured doesn’t cut it.
Mass murder, of course. They’ll be on that right away.
Who knew that some of them are unstaffed? And who knew that giving Gomers unsupervised freedom to shoot would turn out badly?
But they ain’t too dumb to figure out that the best place to shoot their head off is a gun range.
The Bullet Play. Happens routinely now.
… they’ve got one in a spanking new high school in Charlotte NC cuz the football team cut a guy and he was pissed so he shot his gun (totally. lots of students with guns on campus every day.) into a room. But he didn’t hit/kill anyone, so why should the school bother telling parents about it? Kid with gun. Yawn. Kid attacks school with gun but no one’s hurt so wazza matter with you? Shaddap this doesn’t count nothing happened.
… 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.
‘Lox & Loaded Gun Club Aims for Self-Defense for Jewish Community‘
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.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s editor poses the question – rather undiplomatically – and we all know the answer:
This is America! Hell, yes!
Comments in response to the FB announcement of gunfire at the Cuyahoga County Fair, Ohio.
https://www.facebook.com/cuyfair/posts/1213538350817112?ref=embed_post
Kids are out of control.
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.
It must be really wild to teach at LSU.
Coverage only cuz took place in Times Sq.
Next time, look sharp! Fourteen year old massacrist, real body count, mass panic pls.
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.
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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.