News of the Restless

Ho, ditty, hum, ditty...why am I not surprised at this?

A man who opened fire inside a church, killing two people with a shotgun hidden in a guitar case, was frustrated at being unable to find a job and blamed liberals and gays, police said on Monday.

"It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred of the liberal movement," Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen told reporters of Sunday's incident at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.

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Posted by Sabina Becker at 03:39 PM | Permalink

I guess now we know who's mightier than the NRA's late shill.

And frankly, a cute widdle orange tabby kitteh is more to be trusted with a firearm than any old racist far-right demento who ran away from a picture of a little girl killed by a gun-totin' classmate.

Posted by Sabina Becker at 01:00 AM | Permalink

...unless you just add dog.

A man out hunting in Iowa was shot in the leg after a hunting dog stepped on his gun, authorities said.

The accident happened after James Harris, 37, put his gun on the ground to retrieve a fallen pheasant.

One of a pack of hunting dogs following behind stepped on the trigger, and up to 120 birdshot pellets hit Mr Harris in the left calf at short range.

A local official told a news agency the injury was "not life-threatening, but will give him trouble for a long time".

Alan Foster, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, told AFP it was not uncommon for hunters to be shot by their dogs.

"I hear about it a couple times a year," somewhere in the country, he said.

"They'll step on the trigger assembly and, if the gun for whatever reason wasn't on safety, it doesn't take a whole lot to trip a trigger."

Harris was treated at Grinnell Regional Medical Center and later transported by helicopter to University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City, following the accident in Poweshiek County on Saturday afternoon.

I wonder if this man bit his dog for doing that to him.

Maybe he should kick himself for being so careless.

Posted by Sabina Becker at 09:22 PM | Permalink

And of course, lack of mental healthcare and lax gun laws had nothing to do with it.

Guns don't kill people, gays do!

Posted by Sabina Becker at 01:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

...to turn a "law abiding gun owner" into a plain old gun NUT?

Four magic words: I want a divorce!

Johnny Lee Johnson of rural Coon Rapids was charged Monday with two counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths Sunday night of Johnson's wife, Kimberly, and her friend, Gregory Alan White.

Kimberly Johnson and White were shot to death in Kimberly Johnson's apartment in Bayard, where she had lived while going through divorce proceedings from her husband.

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Posted by Sabina Becker at 09:17 PM | Permalink

Not that he's not all wet, all the time, already. Still, the Virginia Tech massacre sure brought out the stoopid from the stupid in a major way. From the safety of his basement masturbatorium, Steyn, a closeted white supremacist who never misses an opportunity to whip out his weenie and kvetch that Evil Brown Muslims Are Out To Rule The World, worked up the incredible courage to apprise us of the following:

Every December 6th, my own unmanned Dominion lowers its flags to half-mast and tries to saddle Canadian manhood in general with the blame for the "Montreal massacre," the 14 female students of the Ecole Polytechnique murdered by Marc Lepine (born Gamil Gharbi, the son of an Algerian Muslim wife-beater, though you'd never know that from the press coverage). As I wrote up north a few years ago:

Yet the defining image of contemporary Canadian maleness is not M Lepine/Gharbi but the professors and the men in that classroom, who, ordered to leave by the lone gunman, meekly did so, and abandoned their female classmates to their fate — an act of abdication that would have been unthinkable in almost any other culture throughout human history. The "men" stood outside in the corridor and, even as they heard the first shots, they did nothing. And, when it was over and Gharbi walked out of the room and past them, they still did nothing. Whatever its other defects, Canadian manhood does not suffer from an excess of testosterone.

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Posted by Sabina Becker at 12:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

As the Boomtown Rats once sang, the lesson today is how to die.

Call it Death by Second Amendment. Or Death by Insanity. Either way, it works out to about the same thing. Isn't the practical definition of insanity a dogged habit of making the same mistakes repeatedly, yet still expecting a different result each time? When you follow a pattern, the outcome tends to be true to pattern. So if you follow a pattern of insanity, guess what your outcome is.

I hauled out my DVD of Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine today, dusted it off and gave it a spin. This was not just some morbid fascination. I wanted to see what, if anything, can be gleaned from it now, five years after its original release and eight years almost to the day after Columbine, to apply to this latest bloodbath. I'm also poring over my old copy of Elliott Leyton's Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer, originally published in the 1980s, to see what there is in there that might shed a light.

As luck would have it, there's plenty. Because not much has changed in those years, except for the worse. The Virginia Tech shooter fits right into the same dreary pattern that has characterized school shooters for decades. In fact, he IS the pattern. On steroids.

Bearing that in mind, let's now recall Bowling for Columbine.

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Posted by Sabina Becker at 11:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I know it's not "rational" to be filled with rage when I hear yet another man saying that feminism has victimized his entire gender, boo-hoo. Or to be damn near ready to blow up at assholes who make a tidy cottage industry out of their hatred for women in general and feminists in particular. Or to think that guys who rant about the evils of "gun grabbing" (because they need that AK-47 under the bed, bitch!) are just fucking nuts. Surely it's not rational to insist that women are still victims of sexism, or that gun control is still necessary in Canada, say the whining oil slicks.

Well, yeah. It must not seem rational, unless maybe you're a woman. A woman with not so distant memories of what happened in Montreal on this day in 1989.

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Posted by Sabina Becker at 05:11 PM | Permalink

...no matter how badly you want to be elected. (Yes, Tories, I'm talking to you. Clean out your ears and pay attention!)

The last thing Canada needs is easier access to guns, because things like this have an ugly tendency to happen in countries where gun use is under-regulated.

Police in Canada have named the gunman who went on a shooting spree in a Montreal college, killing a young woman, as 25-year-old Kimveer Gill.

Gill, from Montreal, wounded 19 others in his gun rampage before being killed in a shootout with police.

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Posted by Sabina Becker at 06:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Men who go by the name of Dick are such easy butts for puns.

Especially when those men named Dick start fuckin' 'round with guns.

But when those Dicks shoot dicky-birds, and hit their friends instead,

Why then, the question goes around: What's up with ol' Dick's head?

It now turns out Dick's had a beer, or maybe he's had two--

How many beers did ol' Dick have? A couple--or a few?

At least one mystery is solved: he had to sober up.

No one expects a VP to go pee-pee in a cup!

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