“Guns kill faster than anything, how is it so easy for us to get them?”

A guy who barely survived the Montgomery AL shootout says “he came downtown because there were so many people out and he wanted to join the fun, but that night of fun turned into something he described as a ‘warzone’ that he’s thankful to have survived.”

And he does pose the question. About guns. The killers were fifteen, sixteen, years old, and it was so easy for the brainless shits to get guns.

‘More people died by gunfire in Alabama [in 2023] than in New York State, which has nearly four times Alabama’s population.’

It’s that ol self-killer instinct, folks. Wyoming has it too. Guns guns guns guns until everyone gets ten! AK47s, AR15s, give em out like candy until everyone kills everyone in a blitz and then the cops kill the killers.

But WHY, Wyoming? A la what Alabam?

Read Nietzsche! says WY. Look under N for Nihilism! says AL. Life’s worth shit down here says AL. Life sucks in the Sagebrush State says WY. Read Better Never To Have Been and then shut the fuck up or I’ll blow your head off.

Our most benighted states…

… are the most religious.

Trends.

Limerick
The Epstein procuress Ghislaine
Is heard from again and again.
Her latest appeal?
Supremes say no deal.
Back to minim. security pen.

Iowa public schools to Ian Roberts:

Sing it!

So what the heck, you’re welcome
Glad to have you with us
Even though you’re the biggest criminal in state history
You really ought to lead Iowa’s public schools!

Life goes on, with pastels.

Diurnal reassurance, at once placid and thundering.

From our second floor balcony, 7:25 AM, Rehoboth Beach, DE.

“I don’t think downtown Montgomery [Alabama] is unsafe.”

A huge open shoot-out in the center of the city wreaks death and life-threatening injury, but the police chief is here to tell you that the city is safe. He’s fucking crazy, as the state AG makes clear in his comment:

You can’t do much when your state has virtually no control over its millions of guns, many of them, like the ones last night, in the hands of fifteen year olds. Almost all of the shooters were 14-16. So you might as well do what Bama’s doing. Nothing. I mean, I assume the city has a crew that hoses down the rivers of blood. I assume they’re doing that.

lololol Not quite as bad an appointment as Ian Roberts…

… but close.

Visiting Harvard Law prof was firing a pellet gun at rats, not the Brookline temple he was standing outside [of] at the start of Yom Kippur, police say

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Wow. Details at once disturbing and hilarious.

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He shot at and shattered a car window!

So… to get serious for a moment. There are a number of sad possible explanations.

  1. Friday night. He was very very drunk/high. He’s lonely, missing Brazil, missing girlfriend who stabilizes him, whatever.
  2. Psychotic break. Shooting at car windows at night because you think there are rats outside your house is a very psychotic breaky thing to do.
  3. Of course it’s possible it had something to do with hating Jews.

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OTOH: A rifle-packing Harvard prof could go far toward bridging the cultural gap between the Trump administration and that school.

This is WAYYYY beyond embarrassing for the Des Moines public schools.

Every day their beloved superintendent turns out to be guilty of yet another category of crime. Today: Drug trafficking! Stay tuned!

He was arrested by ICE with the help of the Iowa State Patrol on Sept. 26. ICE said Roberts attempted to flee arrest and was found hiding in the brush. The vehicle he was driving was found with $3,000 in cash, a fixed blade knife and a loaded Glock 9mm pistol, which led to additional criminal charges of being an illegal alien in possession of firearms.

A real gift to Trump. All tied up with a ribbon.

Iowa will never live it down. They actually paid money to a firm to vet the guy!

Les UDs are off for their autumn…

… stay at Rehoboth. Blogging continues.

What a shocker.

Gun death at a hookah lounge in one of the most dangerous cities in insanely dangerous Louisiana. Who could have predicted this tragic turn? Especially on a weekend night?

‘For some students and parents, the repeated lockdowns — three in just over a month — have become too much.’

But how much, really, is too much? This Texas high school begins to look like an armed camp, with many guns carried in every day. Parents are upset, demand action, blah blah. But it’s Texas. You wanna live where everybody, starting around age fourteen, doesn’t carry a loaded gun everywhere, move to Massachusetts.

Rather like the last scene of “Weapons,” only without the drawing and quartering.

And bravo University of Washington students for en masse chasing out the local Nazi who pushed his way into their lecture hall and did a bunch of fascist shouts. The students surrounded him until the police showed up.

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You know. Where the children chase down the witch.

‘Gordon’s statement did not mention firearms, which are used in the vast majority of Wyoming’s suicide deaths.’

Yeah why should Wyoming’s governor bother mentioning the primary reason his state has the highest rate of elderly suicides in the country? Virtually all of the guys use a gun.

Cuz walk five feet in any direction in Wyoming and you’ll trip over a gun. The state has more guns than almost anyplace else in the world, ‘cept maybe Mogadishu.

And that’s why it’s got world-class suicide rates. But you wouldn’t want to be impolite enough to say the word or anything.

Hang down your head, Tom Cooley.

Your namesake law school is a national embarrassment.

The sickening tribal details behind FGM are …

here.

Triumphal sadism as a way of life. Hard to know how you do anything about that.

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