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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
You find politeness in unexpected places.
He showed it to him, and neither thought the gun was real.
According to the brother, there was no magazine in it, but the teen was playing with it and accidentally fired one shot, hitting his mother in the neck.
Scattering more guns about would no doubt have prevented this.
The Ammosexual Impulse 0
Chauncey Devega, in a typically long and tightly reasoned post, traces the thread of ammosexuality through American history. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
There are many examples of this at present. Armed white people, mostly men, have been brandishing weapons to intimidate Muslims in Texas. White, mostly male, open carry advocates, march in public with guns, intimidating the general public and those who disagree with them. After mass shooting incidents, Republican politicians suggest that gun violence is somehow the price for the “freedom” and “liberty” of gun ownership in America. For them, a country awash with guns and gun violence is inseparable from American Exceptionalism. This is a macabre and sick understanding of what makes America “great.” That gun violence apologists on the American Right-wing cannot think of some greater motivation for their worship of “American Exceptionalism” is a devastating indictment of the country’s civic health.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Shots don’t mix well with beers.
So, Farley said, Kugelman started choking a waitress, forcing others to break it up and separate the two.
A bouncer escorted her out of the bar, Farley continued. After kicking her out and as he turned around to walk back in, Kugelman shot him in the head, Farley said.
“All guns everywhere” is working out so very nicely, is it not?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes practice.
Modesto police said the two were acting out a scenario when a loaded gun the instructor was holding accidentally went off. The pastor was shot in the abdomen.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your furry friends.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Share the politeness with your family.
The child did not survive.
Afterthought:
More guns, of course, would have prevented this from happening.
None Dare Call It Terrorism 0
Alfred Doblin points out that, in fact, it is.
I guess Adam Lanza, who shot 26 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, was just a man with a weapon. Slaughtering 26 people — 20 were children — was not an act of terrorism because, according to GOP presidential wannabes, a crazed man with a gun killing more than a half-dozen people in a school is not a terrorist. Or James Holmes killing 12 and injuring 70 additional people inside a movie theater in 2012 is not a terrorist.
Read the rest.
None Dare Call It Terrorism . . . 0
. . . but it clearly is.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely.
(snip)
The Kent County Sheriff’s Department says Newville recently got a handgun and was playing with it. Lee Newville, Cory’s brother, confirms to WZZM that Cory recently bought the gun and was showing it to friends when the accidental shooting happened.
And, elsewhere on the politeness front . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your furry friends.
The Albany County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Environmental Conservation are investigating after two pets were found shot to death. . . .
The shooting does not appear to be an accident.
(Remember that, in the country, folks do not keep their pets all cooped up like city folk do.)
Among the Ammosexuals 0
Alex Steed meditates on life in a land of ammosexuals (emphasis added).
I very literally am scared of the possibility that my child could be killed by an NRA-coddled homegrown terrorist.
Do you have a similar fear? Welcome to the NRA’s America. The America in which the satirical Onion headline “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” feels more real than the actual news.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness at the politeness show.
