The lone survivor of her class tricked the gunman by playing dead, the girl’s pastor told ABC News, before running out of the school covered in the blood of her classmates.

“She ran out of the school building covered from head to toe with blood…”

Pretending to be dead in the slaughterhouse of our latest massacre … Lifting yourself from the bloody pile and going home..

As I’ve said before, this is Babi Yar. “[Lanza] moved to a classroom where he systematically shot all those inside – 14 children whom the Courant reported were huddled and clutching each other in terror …” This is piles of bleeding bodies among which has now emerged our own Dina Pronicheva, the woman who survived Babi Yar in the same way — by playing dead.

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But America, with its massive, easily gotten arsenal of top of the line people-killers, has made Babi Yars much easier. One skinny little kid can butcher a village in seconds.

Adam Lanza had hundreds of rounds and used multiple high capacity magazines when he went on a rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 first graders and six adults, Connecticut State Police said today.

After shooting at victims in two classrooms and a hallway with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle, he put a bullet into his own head with a handgun.

Quick and easy. I trust our technicians are working on yet quicker, more powerful models.

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A shared fascination.

After fatally shooting his mother in the face, investigators say [Adam Lanza] took three of his mother’s legally-owned weapons that he used in the assault, including a Glock, a SIG Sauer, and a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle. In addition to those three weapons, cops also recovered a .45-caliber Henry repeating rifle, a .22-caliber Marlin rifle, and a .30-caliber Enfield rifle…

… According to the Post, Nancy Lanza was a gun enthusiast who often took her son shooting with her. “She’d take them to the range a lot … Nancy was an enthusiast — so much so that she wanted to pass it on to her kids,” said her former landscaper and “occasional drinking buddy” Dan Holmes. “She took her two sons to the gun ranges quite a bit to practice their aim. She was a really great shot from what she told me. Whenever I finished work and went inside to chit chat, she spoke often about her fascination with firearms. Nancy had an extensive gun collection and she was really quite proud of it.”

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Why would she have three powerful guns in the house when she knew her son was so deeply disturbed?

It sounds as though she had quite a lot more than three.

And “powerful” doesn’t say it. You use these guns when you’re pinned down in Helmand Province.

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It defies logic … that an average citizen with a gun is going to disarm a crazed killer.

All those guns all over the house, and herself a very good shot. Yet when it came to it, Nancy Lanza was unable to defend herself from one of the most notorious mass murderers in American history stepping up to shoot her face off.

But then, she’d devoted herself to training and arming him.

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“She prepared for the worst,” [a relative of Lanza’s] told [a] newspaper. “I didn’t know that they [the guns] would be used on her.”

Yes. She was prepared for a firefight in Kunar Province.

As for this woman not knowing the guns would be used on her relative – try reading some statistics.

Did it occur to you – or anyone in the family – that a paranoid family member living alone in a hidden-from-the-road, closed-off house, with an insane twenty-year-old and a military arsenal in it, might be something to keep your eye on?

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Prepare for Nancy Lanza to become a patron saint of the armed survivalists.

I’m going to assume this woman – she’s only eighteen – has a psychiatric history. She seems to have taken breaking up with her boyfriend hard, since she loaded up her car with lots of weaponry and went to Elon, where he’s a student. Her parents notified the boyfriend, he notified Elon, they notified the police, and she was arrested as soon as they spotted her on campus.

How, though, does an unstable eighteen-year-old manage to load up on all those armaments?

… comforts me.

[UD thanks James.]

Police shot at them with the guns hidden under their veils.

… all-clear.

An American university is a refugee from drug violence.

The University of Texas at Brownsville, in shooting range of the protracted Matamoros gun battles, has shut down.

The university’s sports information director is the source of this post’s headline. During a soccer game, he and others suddenly realized that a war was happening close by. Evacuation ensued.

The campus has been closed at least twice before recently because of gunshots.

This gives you a sense of the layout.

“The first thing that has to be done is secure the border. … East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow… We have the capacity to, as a great nation, secure the border. If East Germany could do it, we could do it.”

Joe Miller’s answer to a question, at a public forum, about illegal immigration. Miller is running for the Senate from Alaska.

“Where there are deer, mountain lions [are] not far behind.”

A California Department of Fish and Game spokesperson explains why the animal was in an urban area.

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Deer are so numerous and so bold in UD‘s backyard — and front yard — that she’s begun throwing deck chairs in their direction. Only this seems to produce enough noise and violence to keep them in the back part of her woods. They are like grazing cows, quite domesticated, and indifferent to our presence.

Will there eventually be mountain lions in Garrett Park, UD‘s town?

One guy with a gun killed forty-four deer in one night on Vassar’s campus earlier this month. He was a sharpshooter hired by the school to reduce its rampaging herds.

In Big Buck Zone, hunters debate the merits of snipers.

Harvard’s pissed.

A Brooklyn woman who is a Harvard University senior has been barred from graduation next month due to her connection to the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man in a university dorm last week.

Police have arrested Manhattan resident Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20, for the murder of Justin Cosby; police said Copney, whose girlfriend is a senior at Harvard, and two other men intended to rob Cosby of marijuana and money. Two (unidentified) female Harvard students are described as “the nexus between Cosby and Copney.”

A lawyer for the Harvard senior told the Boston Globe, “This is a highly educated, independent young woman who has literally been cared for since she was a teenager by Harvard – and now they have terminated her right to be on campus. There is no justification for it. She may have known the people involved, but you know, it’s not guilt by association in this country.”

The student was also kicked out of her dorm, Kirkland House, which is where the shooting took place; a previous report said that Copney’s girlfriend’s “gave Copney her dorm hall access card, which allowed him to float in and out of Harvard dorms.”

… can’t spell Harvard, Gawker’s got a useful update on the Harvard killing. Excerpts:

… The chief suspect, Jabrai Jordan Copney, who was arrested in New York yesterday, was visiting two unidentified female Harvard students who also knew Cosby — who was not a Harvard student. Copney allegedly made the trip to Cambridge with the intent of robbing Cosby of drugs and cash, and the Harvard girls were “the nexus” between the two men.

The facts that have emerged so far have given way to a swirl of rumors that Cosby was a major supplier to three of the schools Final Clubs, which are their so-called “secret” societies. [“Huh?” said Mr UD, a Harvard grad, when I asked him. “Never heard them called that.”] And since he was visiting the unidentified girl with a pound of pot there is speculation that she was one of his campus distributors.

… [T]he girls could have just been personal-use buyers, and Cosby could just have carried around way too much pot for his own good when he went out on calls. Either way, it looks like some nice Harvard girls started hanging out with some bad boys…

Why assume all Harvard girls are nice? What’s that mean, anyway? That they don’t buy and smoke and maybe sell dope?

UD reminds you about the nice Hofstra girl engaged, apparently, in the trade there.  Many of the news items about Adi Stern called her a man.  I guess everyone has trouble realizing that women commit crimes.

… trying to steal the victim’s drug money. The shooters were visiting Harvard friends. The victim had apparently just transacted some drug business in the dorm.

… Justin Cosby … was shot in the abdomen Monday in what [police] described as a “drug rip” attempt.

Cosby was found with about a pound of marijuana and about $1,000 when he collapsed outside the dormitory.

Police are looking for two other people said to have been involved in the shooting.

If all of this information is confirmed — especially the part about wild gunplay inside a Harvard dorm (Cosby was shot multiple times) — it’s really, really bad.

… that Justin Crosby was probably on campus to sell marijuana to students.

Which doesn’t explain why he was shot.

As of ten minutes ago, the Boston Globe didn’t know very much.

A man was shot this afternoon at the entrance of a Harvard University residence hall, and police were searching for several assailants. It was not immediately clear whether the victim, who was shot in the abdomen, was a student.

Sergeant James DeFrancisco of the Cambridge Police said that after authorities were alerted about 4:50 p.m. they found the victim on Dunster Street, outside Kirkland House, one of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate houses. DeFrancisco said the victim was taken to the hospital and was in stable condition.

… Residents of Kirkland House have been asked to remain there as police continue to speak with students and others. Otherwise, police have indicated that students and other members of the community are free to resume their normal activity.

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Update: The person shot seems not to have been a Harvard student. UD speculates that this was gang-related.