Yeah, datz where we are.

UD‘s having a hell of a good time reading this thread about leftwing gunnies.

“Was [Kirk’s assassin] on the left? I don’t know … It is a fool’s errand to try to say that these nuts who do these things are [on] any team… This kid doesn’t belong in either party. He belongs in a straitjacket. He’s an outpatient who should not be out.”

Which reminds UD of something else she’s been thinking about. The missing link in these kills done by people 16-25 is their parents. Many of the killers are still living at home, and in many cases their parents know perfectly well that their kid is nuts. Their response to this dawning horror is denial plus hiding: They don’t want it to be true; and they don’t want anyone outside the home to know it’s true.

Many of these homes are already really gunny, with dad deciding it’d make the kid better if they went to the ranges together… You’d be amazed how many parents of violent demented children decide more guns and more shooting is the answer.

Or maybe the parent enjoys his own rage against society being acted out by the kid. Things get squirrely here.

The larger theme of moronic negligence resounds throughout the land, as in the husband who took a business trip, leaving his spectacularly insane wife alone in the house with her four little daughters. She slaughtered all of them with one of many guns her husband decided were fine to keep unlocked with a maniac in the house. One of the girls survived long enough to suffer great pain for a few days.

A country club in New Hampshire! A departure from hookah lounges in Louisiana.

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‘At least half a dozen people were taken to Nashua area hospitals with injuries that were not gunshot-related, sources told News 9 Investigates. Many were injured in the chaos of the shooting.‘

That’s one thing UD‘s been thinking about lately. In toting up our daily American shootings, we concentrate on the kill rate; we don’t focus much at all on the physically and emotionally injured that lie scattered about these scenes.

Oh, the nut in Nashua (he seems to have been another armed psychotic, but we’ll see) only managed to blow one person away; forget it; move on to today‘s bloody mess… We forget the maimed for life, the traumatized, the old people who snapped their legs trying to run, the children crushed by adults. We never bother thinking at all about, say, the owners and staff of businesses – like country clubs! – that labor every day to sustain an environment of calm, beauty, and sociality… sure, even of snobbery… and the whole point of the enterprise is its non-chaos, its safety from the shooting gallery out there. Regard them this morning, after one hundred people ran screaming from a killer on their trim verdant lawn: Glass everywhere, bright red blood on the bright green grass, Adirondacks upended and pulled apart, yellow police markers and tape, abandoned phones and games… It’s the last scene of the Great Gatsby, except that this is a group scene; it’s not just some rich guy gunned down in his magnificent pool on his magnificent estate. It’s a whole raft of wealthy suddenly wrenched from a subdued and beautiful setting into the savage insanity that is Anytown USA.

Watch for these would-be safety zones to look more and more like (ha) armed camps.

https://www.the-journal.com/articles/rocky-mountain-gun-owners-event-still-scheduled-in-lewis-arriola-after-community-concern

Advertisement, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners.

It’s 24/7 guns in Chambers, AL, where “half time” in high school baseball games means the moment when ambient shooting becomes unignorable.

One of America’s most violent cities. A motorcycle club. Open all night. What could go wrong?

Or, uh, window.

‘Judge Tosses Trump’s $15B Defamation Suit Against New York Times‘

‘The crisis of suicides among older adults is inextricably linked with guns. Older Americans use a gun in a suicide attempt significantly more often than younger people. And guns are the most lethal method of attempting suicide.‘

It doesn’t have the force of law, but indicates where things may be headed.

… in their lawsuit against the fuckwit who keeps insisting she’s a man.

UD‘s touched by their naivete. Their nemesis is from pre-science. She’s ante-antediluvian. She’s farther gone than Robert Kennedy Jr.

La France is of course the great country of rationalists — Descartes etc etc etc etc. — and it would never occur to people like the Macrons that high-profile pundits in any nation would actually have no knowledge of logic, empiricism, enlightenment, rationality, objectivity… UD will admit that it also took her a long time to accept this. Living in the modern world, it is close to impossible to believe that millions of people, especially in an advanced setting, have never encountered scientific method. But it is quite true.

UD wishes the Macrons luck in their defamation lawsuit.

Sounds like a Dorothy Sayers title.

And a yoga studio on the first floor, for the contemplation of non-attachment.

UD loves found poetry, and this decasyllabic morsel, describing my magnolia, and confirming what I’ve noticed – that it’s a “favorite food of catbirds” – is a perfect example.

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Haiku?

Seed pod of sweet-bay
Magnolia tree, trembling.
Not wind.  A cat bird.