I think this is the guy. Two of his four FB pictures feature him showing off a gun. Seems to have believed that you’re not safe if you’re not armed all the time.

But you better stay awake if that’s how you roll, cuz while you sleep one of your always-available guns might be taken up by someone else, see, like the curious toddler who toddled into your bedroom while you slept, found the gun, fired it, and killed you dead.

The only consolation we can draw from this tragedy is that a young gun enthusiast-to-be has, thanks to you, had a chance to test a gun and set out – very early – on his own gun journey. Let that be your epitaph.

If veiling is, at its core, about controlling women — and if it rests on the idea that men aren’t responsible for their actions — then refusing to challenge it isn’t tolerance. It’s surrender… We must face Islamist misogyny in the UK, eye-to-uncovered-eye.

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Some say the vile theocrat running Iran may be replaced under pressure of current circumstance. Maybe the next person will toss the mandatory hijab law.

Dude lives three doors down from your blogueuse in Garrett Park. Does not like Jews.

On his webpage, he announces his commitment to a “proto-feminist” “collective good.” Proto means ‘Primitive: … a basic or undeveloped state.‘ Zat really what you want?

There is something I know you want, and that’s attention. Man, you just waggled your dingus in front of an academic audience!

Thou shalt, however, remain America’s by far worst state.

“And I think it’s very important to maybe use this tragedy as some kind of positive, try and get people to understand how to avoid these kinds of things in the future.”

The charge of manslaughter is a second-degree felony, and could mean up to 15 years behind bars.

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Math ain’t my strong suit, but let’s see. If every household in a state has, well, multiple firearms, and if said state, like all states, has a certain number of idiots, immatures, insanes, and incompetents, how many of these here “tragedies” can we expect? I mean, go ahead and throw in suicidally depressed. That’s a lot of tragedies. What a sad and shocking fate for this noble defensive/sporting instrument.

All our gunniest states have immense numbers of suicides and immense, uh, misadventures like the one people in Utah are talking about, where some idiot brought out multiple loaded guns in the living room, surrounded by his family, and started showing off with them. Oh boohoo shot my kids head off I din mean it now can I go home?

No because, at some bloodsoaked point, accident bleeds into manslaughter.

I mean, this being Utah he’ll get a boys will be boys judge who will slap his wrists and free him to slaughter another family member and the state’s butcher bill will keep going up and up and up.

The EU agricultural funds were just sitting there!

All kinds of people tried to shut down this latest EU theft racket, but they either got fired by the ministers who ran the fraud, or

investigators encountered physical resistance from … staff while searching its premises. The government was then forced to fire the [farm] agency’s president for failing to cooperate and to announce it would shut down the organization.

These people fight. Physically.

And now the two ministers who seem to have run the fraud, having been duly promoted, are dealing, or not dealing, with press inquiries.

Makis Voridis, who was agriculture minister from 2021 to 2023 … is now migration minister, and Lefteris Avgenakis, who was agriculture minister from 2023 to 2024 … is now an MP.

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EU not happy.

In a column written just before it passed, Polly Toynbee writes:

The assisted dying bill’s final Commons vote today is no abstract debate about slippery slopes or what God wants: to do nothing is to inflict torture on many… Only God [some say] ordains the time of our entrances and exits. [But] his word cuts very little mustard in a country where 53% have no religion…

[The assertion that my position is a] ‘cult of death’? That sounds more applicable to those willing to let others die in painful agony…

[P]olling of those with disabilities shows 78% in favour [of] assisted dying, in line with the rest of the population…

No, as some hope, morphine is not a kindly drug wafting you away – it can’t remove all pain. Enough people have witnessed bad deaths that public opinion is strongly behind the right to die…

If it passes, it goes to the Lords, where 26 bishops will do their damnedest to stop it, reminding us why they should be removed along with the hereditaries.

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Well, it has passed, so cue the bishops… For UD, this issue is as clear a case as any that religion can really be a wild and crazy thing, peeling off penis parts and blanketing women in black and insisting that people dying in protracted agony must keep shrieking cuz the Lord who loves you also likes the sight of suffering or something.

Bizarre. Not just a minority opinion. Downright microscopic, since most people put basic humanity before dogma.

The Pompeii Archaeological Park has just unveiled the restored Garden of Hercules (so named for a statue of the mythical hero uncovered at the site), freshly planted with 1,200 violets, 1,000 ruscus plants, and 800 antique roses, as well as vines and cherry and cotton apple trees. The botanical display is intended to mirror how the garden appeared 2,000 years ago, based on the findings of botanist Wilhelmina Jashemski, who identified pollen, spores, and plant fossils in the area in the 1950s.

Dr Jashemski worked in Pompeii for decades past the 1950s, and my mother sometimes accompanied her, digging for roots in the hot sun. Both of them would be thrilled by the gardens that have now been rebuilt.

Family members told CBS Los Angeles the victim was a man and that he was shot [and killed] during a celebratory end-of-college pool party.

Can fun and guns mix at Utah events following deadly shootings?

Judge talks to 11 year old who brought sixty rounds of ammo and a gun to school.

… near you.

One of the gunniest, dyingest, states in the union generates yet another dad kills son by accident story cuz I dunno he was holding a loaded gun and fuck I dunno…

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It’s quite something to watch local commenters blame dad-on-kid killing on people who want gun control. See my headline? What exactly is the argument here? That if psycho-gun-death states like Utah had stricter gun laws they wouldn’t start having way fewer dad on kid deaths, the way states like Massachusetts — that make it harder to whip out your gun and let fly — do? That controlling some kinds of gun purchase, some kinds of gun purchasers, and some kinds of lethal behavior with guns doesn’t decrease gun deaths?

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[A] 46-year-old man was showing family members a new barrel he had purchased for his Glock handgun...

The gun had a round in the chamber, and it went off while he was showing the gun to members of his family … Additional details on what may have caused the gun to fire remain under investigation.

[T]he man’s 18-year-old son, whose name has not yet been released, was sitting on a couch in the living room with other family members and was shot in the head. The father was standing across from him.

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What caused the gun to fire was dad. Gather round, entire family, and lemme show off my new Glock barrel! Sonny, you just sit right there on the couch and I’ll stand right across from you, with the gun level with your head. [BANG] Whoooooooopsies…..

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Later that same day…

See dat? Cops just threw out the whole “accidental” thing and arrested the – not father; stepfather – for manslaughter. The original story stank to high heaven.