… the Parkland massacre and is reporting them. The latest squirt (they’re only saying “teenager” — sixteen?) who wants to kill everybody lives with his gun-mad daddy in ultra-ritzy Westport Connecticut, in a close-to-million-dollar house. Shades of well-heeled Nancy Lanza. Westport is only a hop skip and a jump from Newtown.
These father/son stories are pretty sweet: The babe who lives near UD and wants to kill everybody also has a gun-mad daddy who stores an immense cache of weaponry in the family home… So, like father, like son… Although in the Connecticut case, dad reportedly keeps lots MORE guns in “an out of state location.” Interesting!
An investigation into the suspect’s home revealed a trove of guns, owned by the father.
Although police Chief Foti Koskinas said many of the weapons found are similar to those used in other mass shootings, Cabana said police were unable to confirm the make and model of any of the guns. The family voluntarily turned over the guns, which police say were properly registered, accounted for, and locked in the family’s home at the time of the investigation.
“(The suspect) didn’t physically have access to them at all,” Cabana said. [Right.] The father also hold[s] weapons at an out-of-state location, which police are looking into. It is still unknown where the father bought the guns but police detectives are looking into their source…
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Here’s another father/son partnership, though in this case I’m sorry to have to tell you that they weren’t entirely forthcoming about their weaponry. OTOH, the good news is that they’re both out on bond, and all the high school that Junior (he’s eighteen) wants to shoot up has had to do in response to his walking around free is take out an order of protection, so everything’s great!
The Saugerties NY police talked to dad and Junior about Junior’s recent online musings (“I envy [Columbine shooters] Eric [Harris] and Dylan [Klebold]. It must’ve been so fucking fun. They had the right fucking idea. I’m so full of rage anymore. Nothing fucking matters anymore”), and the two of them told the police they had no guns in the house and in fact owned no guns.
In a later interview, on Feb. 27, police learned from Bruce Chargois that in fact there had been firearms in the home, but that he had removed them immediately after being interviewed. Subsequently, police accompanied Bruce Chargois to his place of business, the Greco Brothers Amusement Co., located at 3 Glasco Turnpike, where Bruce Chargois showed detectives where he had hidden five firearms, including a fully automatic 9mm Uzi and an AR-15 assault rifle.
As a result of the seizure of the firearms, Saugerties Police with assistance from members of the New York State Police CNET, the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office and agents from ATF conducted a search warrant at the residence of Connor and Bruce Chargois, located at 5 Sawyerkill Terrace in the village of Saugerties. A quantity of ammunition of varying calibers, homemade knives, machine fabricated gun parts, a prototype of a firearm that Connor Chargois admitted he had been manufacturing in the basement of the house, in addition to a number of completed homemade firearms in both .22 and 9mm caliber capacities were located.
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You know who we haven’t heard much from lately? The War on Boys people. Where are the War on Boys people? UD assumes they are as we speak penning their defense of these masculinity-flexing lads and their appalling treatment by their hysterical politically correct schools.
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Okay so this one – a teacher! – left a threat online a week ago but no one took it seriously.
Police said Jesse Randall Davidson, 53, had a gun and at least one shot was fired… Police said the shot went through a window.
Police said they do not believe there was any intent to hurt anyone.
Of course not. People who fire random shots out of the windows of high schools full of students have no intent to harm. And no one was harmed!
I mean, haha, except for one wee fellow who broke his ankle while running for his fucking life from his mad weaponized teacher.
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No need to worry about these nineteen year olds. They are Future Business Leaders of America.
March 1st, 2018 at 8:08AM
Ugh. I teach in that town, thankfully not at the school in question. Naturally, everyone’s a bit rattled by this, not least because Westport doesn’t seem like a gun kind of place. But, of course, everywhere is a gun kind of place. Terrifying. It’s all terrifying.
March 1st, 2018 at 8:18PM
Not sure who the “War on Boys” people are, or whether such a population has a collective voice.
I suspect, though, that bringing up young men to act like gentlemen, and, if they take interest in hunting or the shooting sports, to get proper range safety training first. And never, ever, have a portrait taken that would get people making associations with Lee Oswald.
March 1st, 2018 at 9:13PM
Stephen: You know, I’ve had that famous photo of Oswald constantly in my mind as we’re treated to one after another of such images. I thought I was the only one who was so strongly reminded of it…
March 2nd, 2018 at 11:31AM
Margaret, it occurred to me recently, after I saw a column about how Hopalong Cassidy (as in “a pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots”) used to be a figure to emulate, if all goes well there’s going to be a Christmas post about that at my site, while the more recent social media presence emulates … Lee Oswald, hunter of fascists. Alas, we’re probably too old for that comparison to be of relevance to the younger set.