Bad News Good News

There was another school shooting here in the land of the armed, the home of the PTSD. Of course there was. There’s too many guns in this damn county and any yahoo can pick one up for a song and a bag of doughnuts. You’re underage? No worries! Your parents probably left their loaded pump-action shotgun sitting out on the dining room table last night.

A 16-year-old shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher before he was shot dead by a community member, authorities said at an evening news conference. (source) 

The children were 5, 8, and 11 years old. Nothing in the news yet about the teacher. Additionally, a 7-year-old and 54-year-old were hospitalized.

I only mention it but one of Ten’s grandchildren goes to the Silver Rail elementary school. Yes, his grand is home and fine but Jesus fucking Christ Almighty! Three of his grandchild’s schoolmates didn’t go home last night. One, possibly, spent the night in hospital. Three sets of parents are devastated. WHY does this happen?!

Reports are that an unnamed armed bystander saw the shooter, followed him, took him out, and then vanished like the Lone Ranger into the mid-afternoon.

Wild West much? Rare case of a brave, good guy with a gun?

Meanwhile, here on the East Coast, I had a good if tiring day in Hospital Land yesterday. The tumors along my spine are stable — that is, there’s no growth worth mentioning. YIPPEE!!! As for my brain — there’s been a slight increase in size in one of my meningiomas but, at this point, it’s nothing to break out the scalpels or radiation beams over. More YIPPEE!!! Naturally, after few misdiagnoses* over my many years on this spinning planet, it takes me some time to cool down, trust, and get happy about the decree.

 * (The worst, most extreme misdiagnoses was the one that came close to leaving me a paraplegic )

AND in Podiatryville, the infection is now officially gone. About fucking time too. I am now in the healing stage and will hopefully be able to wear shoes again soon. That’d be awesome since winter’s coming AND Jen and I leave for our little Iceland vaca in a few weeks. YEA!

 'scuse me now, I gotta get cleaned up for a 10AM Zoom doc appointment. I LOVE appointments where I don't have to leave the house! 

It’s The Guns

In today’s episode of Idiots with a Guns we visit Lincoln, Nebraska.

An absolute radish brained dumbfuck managed to shoot himself while he was making a film of himself showing how to use a gun (for YouTube? TicToc? Instagram? Some other online video look-at-me shit?).

His girlfriend was doing the recording when this total smooth brained spoon, in trying to demonstrate how to rack his newly bought handgun, shot himself in the leg. Dodo-head severed his femoral artery. FYI, those babies are gushers. He could only have fucked up more by shooting himself in the face.

I only mention it BUT, since the gun he was using for his failed demo was brand-y new and modern handguns have built-in blocks that stop accidental shooting unless you pull the trigger, this means that our nitwitted, galumphing instructional video star pulled the trigger on a loaded gun that was aimed at his own leg.

Bright young man, eh? Hope the girlfriend’s on some serious birth control.

Next we visit Apalachee, Georgia where the Apalachee High School shooter’s father has just been sentenced to 15 years in jail.

Colin Gray gave his son an assault rifle for Christmas. 

He did this just a few short months after cops came to his door to inform him that his precious boy had threatened to shoot up an elementary school. 

What can you expect from an idiot sperm donor who names his progeny after a fucking gun company. Yeah, he named that boy Colt.

Fucking Colin knew his 14-year-old (now 16 and in jail for life, no parole) was obsessed with mass murders. 

Of course Fucking Colin bought his deranged spawn an assault rifle. The man doesn’t have the brain god gave a housefly. He’s such an imbecile, he probably needs a reminder to wipe himself after he takes a dump.

Quote by John Fugelsang 

Dude absolutely TOTALLY deserves this sentence. I’m just disappointed that he only got 15 years (he was up against a far more appropriate 100 years). Fucking Colin was found guilty of 27 counts, including second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, cruelty to children in the second degree, and reckless conduct. I wonder if one of the counts was accessory to murder – he was def an accessory before the fact.

Now we’re down in Austin, Texas.

His name was Anthoneil Williams II He was a 17-year-old kid. He was killed by Austin police after he called 911. 

Three cops fired more than a dozen shots into the boy, claiming they thought his water bottle was a gun. They reloaded and shot again. Austin police chief Lisa Davis has said that she determined the call came from the teen's cellphone and called the whole business "potentially a suicide by police.” 

The footage seemingly shows Williams show up, sit down on a line of limestone bricks for five minutes before officers arrive just after 4 a.m. last Friday.

Williams then retreats behind the playscape. Officers did not have their weapons drawn on approach but quickly drew them when Williams' hand seemingly moved toward his waistband. Williams falls to the ground after a volley of more than a dozen shots from at least one officer. He's seen moving behind the playscape, and two officers fire on him again while he is on the ground.

By 4:02 a.m., at least two officers can be seen reloading their guns as the video ends. (source) 

He didn’t have an assault weapon or a handgun in the waistband of his pants. It was a water bottle.

If the boy was white would he be alive and would the cops have taken him to McDonald’s for an Egg McMuffin and hash browns on their way to the hospital for his mental health care?

Black boys deserve to grow up to be Black men. Dammit.

Oh yeah and there’s yesterday’s mass murder at the Twin Falls, Idaho In-N-Out Burger. Three people are dead, seven more were injured. The gunman killed himself (so that makes four dead) so that saves Idaho the cost of trials and housing him in jail for the rest of his life. Small favors. Why’d he do it? Was he after one person in particular or was this just an orgasm of death? Too soon to know.
 

It's the Guns

By now you’ve head about Saturday’s two mass shootings.  

In the huge terrorist attack at the Chanukah by the Sea celebration on Bondi Beach – Sydney, Australia, at least 12 people are dead (including one of the two gunmen) and 29 people have been sent to area hospitals in serious condition. 

In addition to shooting, apparently these despicable fuckers placed a bunch of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the area too.

Some hero tackled one of the gunmen. He has two bullet wounds, one in his arm and one in his hand, but is alive, recovering, and will likely never have to buy his own pint again – EVER.

MUCH closer to home, down in Providence, Rhode Island (42 miles from Valhalla), at least two people were killed and nine more were wounded. The suspect has NOT been caught.

All that’s known at this point is that it’s a man who may have been in his 30s. He was dressed in black and may have been wearing a camouflage mask. ICE?

In remarks to reporters at the White House, Donald Trump said he’d been “fully briefed” on the situation. 

“What a terrible thing it is. And all we can do right now is to pray for the victims and for those that were very badly hurt it looks like,” he said. “We’ll inform you later as to what’s happening. It’s a shame. It’s a shame. Just pray.”

US attorney general Pam Bondi said on X that the FBI and ATF agents “are on the scene of the tragic shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island. Please pray for all involved.” (source) 

Pedo Prez said he’s been fully briefed? Oh please. He’s probably referring to his latest diaper change. Does he even know where Rhode Island is, let alone Brown University? He’ll inform us later as to what’s happening? Yeah sure. As IF he remembered the shooting five minutes after speaking of it. 

Also, pardon me for feeling absolutely ZERO increased confidence now that I know that the astoundingly incompetent Krazy Kash Patel and Trump’s faithful lapdog, binbrained Attorney General Bondi are on the case. The killer is basically home free at this point.

Anytime a politician, especially a Republican and MOST especially Trump – the embodiment of the seven deadly sins plus a few the devil hadn’t come up with yet – urges the public to pray (versus doing something useful, like voting) after a tragedy, I roll my eyes so hard, I break the sky.

My ties with Providence and Brown? Jen graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (AKA RISD –fellow, earlier, grads include Talking Heads) whose campus is half a mile from Brown. Plus, my father got one of his master's degrees from Brown. We lived in a small apartment near campus. It was 1965 – the year of the Great Northeastern Blackout, the year the Beatles' movie Help came out. I was in second grade at Saint Sebastian’s School. 

The last time I was in Providence was for a Free Leonard Peltier protest/sit-in. That was, probably, 20 years ago.

I was about to post and just rechecked the news. A person "of interest" is in custody, for what that's worth. If Patel has anything to do with it, it's probably some innocent rando who had the misfortune to walk by at just the wrong moment.