Great headline in Kentucky Lantern, which goes on to detail that state’s fierce commitment to its flag.
Whoops. I mean
“There was about 50 kids on [Panama City] beach when this happened, and they’re doing Oklahoma drills, and that’s where they run at each other and tackle one another. That ended up in an argument and fight which resulted in somebody firing a gun off.”
English as a Second Language, Declension Lesson:
FOOTBALL DRILLS
ARGUMENT
FIGHT
GUNFIRE
Gun battle outside of an LA nightclub in front of which many people await admission, or mill around at closing time, or something. A driver involved in the fight is shot, loses consciousness, and drives straight into the crowd! Zillions hurt, some critically. Wow! Can’t wait to see the footage.
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Update: Still a confused story; police are looking for a bald Hispanic gunman… ?
The crowd dragged the guy who rammed them out of his car and beat the shit out of him and the guy already had a gunshot in him which we can’t say much with certainty about this event but it’s clear this person had a very bad Friday night.
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https://www.facebook.com/boogiethaboogiemonstah/videos/1077821250657534
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So now it sounds as though after they dragged the (drunk?) driver out of his car, some passerby shot him.
This sounds very plausible. Very American.
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The increasingly reliable narrative of the event is one so familiar to UD.
The driver, drunk and disorderly, had been thrown out of the club; enraged, he got in his car and rammed it into people in front of the building.
I’ve seen this a lot of times; angry men who’ve been refused admission to venues, or thrown out, return with deadly weapons.
‘Police reported that a man, acting erratically, used a victim’s firearm to fatally shoot him.
The victim had been exercising his legal right to openly carry the weapon when the suspect, identified as 36-year-old Kyle Capucci, managed to seize it.
Jeff Margetta, an educated gun owner, expressed concerns about open carry practices. “I see people open carry, and they do not watch their surroundings at all,” he said. “And that’s kind of a scary thought, because someone could come up behind them, take their gun, and then they’re liable for what happens.”‘
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Yeah but this guy’s way past liability concerns.
Sure, after you expel the violent psycho with the loaded gun from your high school, you could continue his education virtually… But try finding anyone among your teachers willing to risk his getting to know where they live!
His parents (did they give him the gun?) have filed an angry indignant lawsuit; they cannot believe that just because their little one
was found with a loaded handgun near campus on Oct. 28, triggering an increased police presence that day as well as on Oct. 29, when a false report of an active shooter sent the school into a lockdown… Raleigh police detained J.S. and two other students behind Peace Street Market, which is just across from [the school]. They had left campus without permission on Oct. 28 around 10:30 a.m.. According to police, J.S. was in possession of [a] loaded firearm. He tried to run from police … Extra police were at Broughton for two days. Student attendance dropped as some parents kept their children home… In November, a district administrative panel recommended a long-term suspension of 365 days and expulsion. Wake County Superintendent Robert Taylor backed the recommendation... In April, a school board appeal panel upheld the 365-day suspension and expulsion... The student had “a pretty recent history of physically aggressive behaviors on campus” that … was increasing in severity.
… just because of the fights he routinely picked at school, his force backed up by a loaded pistol… just because of these teeny weeny infractions… the school, plus an appeals board, threw his wittle ass out totally! He’s just a child! A child with a loaded gun! Big deal!
Out here in nowhere OK, which is all about guns booze divorce no broadband and no people, suicide is all the rage; and when you’re ready for your Beretta to the brain, more and more folks are realizing that nothing beats a gun range — your one-stop-shop for pop pop pop. Or just pop.
They’ll hand you a gun, man, and while fellow shooters might be put out by your suddenly bleeding all over the place, that’s a whole sight better’n leaving a mess at home for your roommate. Here it’s a bunch of strangers who’ll call 911 right away no muss no fuss.
Which is why gun range suicides are a thing; they are a growing subset of gun suicides not yet exploited by the gun ranges, but I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t start advertising as venues. As OK State Sen Nathan Dahm (who personally made sure OK don’t have NO red flag laws) says, “Everyone dies. That’s life.” I mean SHARUGGG. SHRUUUUG. WTF. BFD. We’re cowboys out here.
You charge more cuz there’s more cleanup — not just a crew to sweep up spent casings, but a special contingent ready to try out a bit of CPR before handing the body off to EMTs and then sopping up the blood/brain.
Butte City Mayor Kevin “Have Gun will Gavel” Turner got pissed at some people during a city council meeting and pulled out his loaded Hi-Point 45 ACP model JHP. He seems to have started banging it loudly on the table (hence the “gavel” part of the name I just gave him) and to have screamed a lot. UD‘s favorite scream, with its keen sense of checks and balances, features in this post’s headline.
Good news is he did not proceed to rip open his camo shirt to reveal a swastika beneath. By Idaho standards, this makes him a moderate.
Tommy Fargis [is] the pastor at Deep Creek Baptist Church [NC], which is situated within earshot of [a] gun range’s location. Fargis conceded that [the range owner’s] seemingly cavalier attitude about his church’s repeated complaints have tested even his own capacity for Christian forgiveness.
“He promised me on two different occasions that ‘we’ll stop shooting on Sunday until after your service,’” Fargis [said]. “That lasted one week. And I don’t take kindly being lied to because as pastor of Deep Creek Baptist Church, I represent Jesus Christ.”
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“The peace of the Lord
CHOOMCHOOMBLAMCHOOMBLAMPOPOPOPOPOPOP
be with you and also
WHEEEEPOPPOPWHAMBANGBANGBANGBLAMCHOOM
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Anyhoo the pastor’s client got His own back.
Richmond Va. already has a shockingly high gun homicide rate; the good citizens of that city have long since proven their brilliance at getting guns and shooting them at people they want to kill (often turns out to be everyone). Folks from six to sixty are out there bangbangbanging.
UD therefore wonders whether the city needs yet another massive shooting range (these are only the best ten local ranges).
The annual Richmond murder rate has dipped a bit in the last couple of years, so maybe it’s as simple as Richmond not wishing a further drop in the rankings.
“Representative Tillman, Sellers, and Hendrix, we went to the Speaker. We begged the Speaker, ‘Listen, Birmingham is a blood bath every day. Can we try to move this Glock switch bill?’”
How legislation gets done in Bama.
‘America’s gun violence undermines the legitimacy of its efforts to challenge other countries’ treatment of their own citizens.‘
Meaning: No one in a position to do something here cares that we regularly slaughter our schoolchildren, so where do we get off lecturing other countries on good behavior?
Plus we’re exporting our bloody gunlove to the rest of the world.
“I’ve been [working in Myrtle Beach] since 1988,” curfew supporter and business owner Chris Walker said Tuesday. “A lot of things have changed, but just having brazen shootouts on our street, that’s not what I signed up for.”
… Walker owns an ice cream store, two coffee shops, a haunted house and some parking lots in downtown Myrtle Beach. On weekends, he has four security guards at $27 an hour on patrol. He also has 80 cameras and said they have recorded “things that you see on video games” by people who “have no respect for human life, and that’s the sad state of where we are right now.”
I cover a lot of these, and a lot of them happened most recently on and around July 4, but the basic point is that mass shooters keep shooting up our crowd events: parades, fireworks displays, rallies, high school graduations, sports events etc., etc. I think the great symbol of this social movement will be the 2017 Las Vegas Harvest Music Festival massacre (‘1,000 rounds, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413 others. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867.’), but that mad motiveless killer’s death toll will inevitably be surpassed by another person who for no reason at all wants to kill everybody.
But it’s the smaller stories, the daily stories, you’re missing, and that’s too bad because the death of American public events is happening all around us, small story by small story. You can find gobs of them on this blog, like the decision yesterday by the town of Pahrump (not far from Las Vegas) to suspend “Movies in the Park … until further notice,” because a crowd can’t gather in Pahrump without people shooting at everyone. Movies in the Park becomes Mossbergs in the Park and that’s the end of the matter.