‘Ben Gvir … hung a picture of Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Muslims at prayer in Hebron in 1994, in his home.’ 

Israel’s super-icky national security minister is wined and dined by a once-respectable Yale intellectual salon. The Times of Israel offers background on the moral deterioration of this group.

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If a figure as eminent as a rabbi based at Yale can legitimize a viewpoint as extreme as Ben-Gvir’s, well, that adds fuel to [anti-semitic] fire. If a Jewish educator grants a hechsher (the kosher seal of approval) to a Kahanist, then he’s making the job of the Israel haters easy.

C’mon home to the Land o’ Suicide!

Montana’s governor has a new commercial out, directed to Colorado-based gun manufacturers, in which he tells them to move their business from Colorado to his state. Colorado is insane, incredible, obscene, demented, and insane for having recently passed some gun control legislation.

“Move back to America!” shouts the guv; move back to Montana, Real America! “I don’t want to brag,” he enthuses, “but the gun suicide rate up in our magnificent hills is the highest in the country; and some of our counties, like Anaconda, have so many suicides everyone knows someone who’s used a gun to blow his head off!”

It’s true.

‘”This is a norm — people die by suicide,” said [child psychiatrist Kelly Irons,] who moved to Anaconda in 2019. “Everyone has someone in their family here who has died by suicide.“‘ ‘“It’s in the culture,” [says another Montanan]. “If you don’t know someone, you know of someone who has died.”

“Come home to America I say! Just look at this suicide rate-by-state map and compare the pathetic washed out peach color of Colorado to the deep bloodred of Montana! We’re Number One, and every blown off head in the state needs a gun, and you sell guns. Get the picture? Get on over here!”

The governor concludes by singing the national anthem.

“The bullets’ red glare! The brains bursting in air!

More lonely drunk men than you’ll find anywhere!”

Lucky breaks…

… with Minnesota’s law allowing 18-20 year olds to carry guns. Lucky Rosenbloom‘s a firearms instructor, and he has announced that despite the law he himself will not admit that age group into his classes. “These kids are impulsive. They’re not going to think. Some of these kids still think that they’re invincible.”

Panting gunfuckers attacked Rosenbloom for not believing in the Second Amendment. “I’ve been teaching the permit to carry class for over 20 years. I’m not against the Second Amendment,” explained Rosenbloom.

Meanwhile, in Memphis…

 “There were five deadly shootings Tuesday night, and 13 since April 14. It brings the total to 91 for the year so far... There has been over one homicide a day for the past 10 days.”

Shooting the Con Edison crew…

… to make them shut up.

O Beautiful…

“All school shooters in U.S. history had easy access to the firearms they used — even those who were very young or severely mentally ill. Many came from a gun culture where firearms are symbols of affection, bonding, and identity. The weapons were often freely accessible in the shooters’ homes... For many school shooters guns were what they called their ‘only friend’, or ‘the love of their life… There’s not a single school shooting in the US where a shooter had trouble getting a firearm.


‘If you really care, you’d do something. Your empty words mean nothing until people stop dying. Your inaction is complacency. You are making us hide in our classrooms. You are killing us. You are letting us die. And you will be remembered for it.’

‘You will either change or not. But either way, we will not be silent. You will hear our cries. You will hear our screams. You will hear our shouts. You will hear us.’

O silly FSU massacre-survivor! It hasn’t yet occurred to you – but it will – that the politicians you and your parents voted into office are at home eating popcorn, binge-watching your massacre. “Hon, is that a Glock he’s using?” “Looks more like a long gun.” “Weird. Looks like Jessie Ikner’s kid.” “Fuck it is her kid [munchmunch].” “Want another beer?” “Yeah thanks.”

They’re excited. They’re having fun. They’re not complacent. They’re totally into it.

The BB Blueprint: Better Behavior through Ballistics

A Missouri woman finds herself in trouble with the police for having disciplined her children by shooting both of them with a BB gun.

But she’ll be smiling soon. A major publisher has approached her about writing a book with the above suggested title. “We’ll provide a ghostwriter, etc.,” said the head of acquisitions at Penguin Random House. “We’re convinced this is a real child-rearing trend, and we’d like to get out there before the rest of the crowd.”

Bouquet taken from my garden…

… for the Easter meal.

“[An attorney said that] the only scenario where criminal charges might be considered is if the deputy knew her stepson posed a serious threat and still allowed him access to a gun.”

Well, let’s see. Did he successfully keep the fact that he was a mentally ill violence-loving fascist from her?

And that’s only criminal. She’s about to be sued like crazy in civil court.

Limerick.

Two billionaires love Giacometti
It’s made them behave rather petty
As suits follow suits
Between rich greedy brutes
The sick’ning tableau is perfetti

The Pope has…

died.

“Basically our only rule was no Nazis — colloquially speaking — and he espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric, and far-right rhetoric as well, to the point where we had to exercise that rule.”

A fellow student recalls their Little Hitler. The same ex-member went on to become a mass murderer. “I remember thinking this man should not have access to firearms,” another classmate tells a reporter. But “what are you supposed to do?”

Yeah, we’re talking Florida, where there’s a stigma attached to not having a gun.

How a peaceful vigil looks in the city with the highest homicide rate in the country.

Hint: Not really peaceful.

Take a bow, Missouri.

Few states make it as easy to put firepower in the hands of drunk/inept/suicidal 21 year olds.

No one’s saying exactly how a star football player at Missouri State did himself in (sounds like suicide to me), but however it happened, the state certainly did its part in making sure this young’un was fully equipped to get dead.

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