Noted

He did manage to cop a feel though.

In Memoriam

Guns No Guns

• Cruelty is the point
• Hypocrisy is the point
• Fuckery is the point
• Assholery is the point

Hey, MAGA

• You can choose to own a gun or not to own one.
• You can choose to carry it around, or not to carry it around.
• You can choose to shoot your gun, or not to shoot it.
• You can choose to threaten people with your gun, or not to do that.

So -  you're Pro-Choice

Good for you

Helluva Record

For the seventh year in a row, USAmerica Inc has produced more mass shootings than there are days in a year. With a full week to go.

Seven. Straight. Years.

This place is nine kinds of fucked up.

Banning Brown People

... and some not-as-brown-but-Muslim-so-yeah-banned.

• Afghanistan
• Myanmar (aka Burma)
• Chad
• Republic of Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Haiti
• Iran
• Libya
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Yemen
• Burundi
• Cuba
• Laos
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Turkmenistan
• Venezuela

Our "government" takes the horrific act of gun violence against a couple of National Guard troopers - who shouldn't have been there in the first fuckin' place - and use it to show the world further evidence that we're a country of Stupid Racist Assholes.

And I guess I don't have to bother referencing any of the other horrific acts of gun violence that happen every day, which hardly merit a mention by the Press Poodles.

Gun Violence Archive shows 381 mass shootings as of today, the 337th day of 2025.

Something About The Guns

One:

Wow - you saw the news last week, right?

Two:

Which story?

One:

The shooting.

Two:

Which one?

One:

At the school.

Two:

Which one?

YOU ARE NINE KINDS

OF FUCKED UP, AMERICA

Colorado school teen shooter had an account on "violent gore" site months before shooting, ADL says

Colorado officials said Desmond Holly, 16, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot after injuring two students at Evergreen High School, had been "radicalized by an extremist network," but did not provide further details.

According to the ADL report, several school shooters in the past year, including Holly, had been active on the same website, which the organization says is known for hosting content backing white supremacist ideas as well as material portraying graphic violence against both people and animals. People can navigate to the website, WatchPeopleDie, and access a forum where they can watch real images of beheadings, shootings and other violence. The site started on Reddit, before being banned in March 2019.

"We're talking about thousands of people who are on these spaces," ADL Senior Vice President of Counter-Extremism and Intelligence, Oren Segal, told CBS News. "There's no friction to access— anybody can do it."

Beverly Kingston, the director of Colorado University's Center For The Study and Prevention of Violence, told CBS Colorado that school shooters often exhibit similarities in their behavior and have been known to pay tribute to other mass shooters. The website Holly used was also frequented, the ADL says, by other individuals who have carried out school shootings. They include 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who shot and killed a student and a teacher at Abundant Life Christian school in Wisconsin last year, and Solomon Henderson, a 17-year-old who committed a shooting that killed one and wounded another at Antioch High School in Nashville in January.

Holly, who posted a photo of Rupnow on TikTok, appeared to have joined the site in December 2024, in the month between the Madison and Nashville shootings, according to the ADL.

"Many of these online spaces are glorifying these young, violent shooter types, where they're even referencing one another," Segal said.

Holly's most recent profile photo on TikTok was of Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in California in 2014 and had a history of engaging in and spewing misogynistic content online, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The 16-year-old posted a photo of himself holding a gun next to a box of ammunition on his X account two hours before the shooting. On social media, Holly showcased his collection of tactical gear, which featured extremist symbols. In a now-deleted TikTok post that contained references to a 2019 mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, he engaged with a comment encouraging him to "make a move," according to ADL.

CBS News reached out to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office to see whether the department's findings were consistent with those in the ADL report. A spokesperson said they cannot comment as the investigation remains open.

The domain of Watchpeopledie is registered by proxy, according to a search of the "whois" registration database – and hides the names of the owners. Cloudflare is used as the registrar for their main domain, Segal at the ADL said, and uses Cloudflare-owned IP addresses, which means that WPD is either hosted on Cloudflare or they are using their passthrough services.

Segal said Cloudflare allows it to remain … that it's basically a service provider not taking action and "allowing the hosting of the site."

A spokesperson for Cloudflare told CBS News that it is not the hosting provider for the website, adding that the company "typically does not host websites and doesn't have the capacity to remove content that is hosted by others."

Segal said that ADL shares their findings with law enforcement agencies across the country. He did not specify an agency or the specific report. Segal said understanding incidents perpetrated by people influenced by nihilistic online spaces as a broader trend rather than one-offs could be a step toward preventing violence.

"We need to see that there's a connection there, there's a through line," Segal said. "There's a common theme and a common thread, which are these online platforms."

No Tears For Charlie Kirk

There were 2 school shootings on Wednesday. Charlie Kirk was killed in one of them.

I am unwilling to mourn for that jerk, but that doesn't mean I celebrate his death.

I do feel kinda bad for his wife and kids, but they're no different now than the hundreds of thousands of moms and dads, and brothers and sisters, and extended families, and friends who are left behind every fuckin' year, feeling an emptiness that can't be filled because some asshole with a gun decided he had to play king-of-the-hill for a few minutes.

In a very real sense, Charlie Kirk celebrated the deaths of kids and other innocents for no better reason than to pimp himself to the big-money politicians, and to pump the chumps who finance his brand one 20-dollar t-shirt at a time.

Fuck that guy.

Overheard

I don't support what happened

to Charlie Kirk,

even though Charlie Kirk

did support what happened

to Charlie Kirk.

#223

Almost 7,500 Americans killed by guns 2025 YTD.

Gun violence has something to do with guns.

A total of 254 people have been killed and 973 people have been wounded in 223 shootings, as of July 5, 2025.

I don't know what to do or how to do it - it's not my area of expertise - but I think we have to talk about the guns as well as parents and discipline and culture.

UnFun Fact

For the last 10 years, 95% of American schools have been running Active Shooter Drills.

So starting now, every school shooter old enough to drive will be operating with full knowledge of the defenses they intend to breach.

Have the day your idiot parents voted for, kids.

Kids In School

A Status Report

 Gun Deaths in 2024  

Japan:             10
UK:                50
Switzerland:       47
Canada:           611
Israel:           105
Sweden:            41
USAmerica Inc: 40,886

Our esteemed leaders are happy to point out that Brazil posted the highest number at 49,436 - but still insist that gun violence has nothing to do with guns.

Out of the top 50 places with the highest Gun Death Rates worldwide, 34 of them are US states.

God bless America.

Colorado Guns

Colorado is kind of a weird place politically. We're generally a blue state, but there's a very strong and very red MAGA - or MAGA-adjacent - faction that leans hard libertarian.

The basic zeitgeist of the Denver-Boulder-Ft Collins triangle (where most of the humans live) is: "Welcome - please take a number and the governor will issue you a rescue dog and a Subaru as soon as possible". But the rest of the joint is strictly Yellowstone meets Atlas Shrugged, with bold notes of the American Taliban - guns, god, Gadsden flags, and elk sausage all around.

So it seems odd that we'd be fixin' to outlaw practically anything having anything to do with firearms. It's possible, mind ya, but as much as I'd love to see it, I'm not holding my breath.

Sale, manufacture of semiautomatic guns that accept detachable magazines would be banned in Colorado under bill

Senate Bill 3 would also outlaw rapid-fire trigger activators and bump stocks, which can make a semiautomatic firearm fire at a rate similar to that of an automatic weapon

The purchase, sale and manufacture of semiautomatic guns that accept detachable ammunition magazines would be banned in Colorado under a bill introduced Wednesday by Democrats on the first day of the state legislature’s 2025 lawmaking term.

Senate Bill 3 would affect many pistols and rifles, whose manufacturers don’t appear to make versions of the weapons without removable magazines.

The legislation also would outlaw rapid-fire trigger activators and bump stocks, which can make a semiautomatic firearm fire at a rate similar to that of an automatic weapon.

The measure would have an effect similar to — or even greater than — legislation that failed at the Capitol in recent years that would have banned the purchase, sale and manufacture of a broad swath of firearms, defined in those bills as assault weapons.

But Senate Bill 3 appears to have a better chance of reaching the governor’s desk given that it has the support of state Sen. Tom Sullivan, a Centennial Democrat whose son was murdered in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, and given the number of cosponsors it was introduced with.

The bill has 18 original cosponsors in the Senate, including all but five Democrats in the chamber. It needs 18 votes to pass the Senate.

If the bill passes the Senate, the legislature’s more politically moderate chamber, it will almost certainly be approved by the House, where it has 24 original cosponsors, and make it to the governor’s desk.

Whether Gov. Jared Polis would sign the bill if it makes it to his desk, however, remains unclear. He has expressed skepticism of measures seeking to ban certain firearms.

In a written statement Wednesday, Polis’ office didn’t take a position on the legislation.

‘With session just beginning and state of the state tomorrow, the governor and his team are just beginning the process of reviewing particular legislation in its introduced form,” Shelby Wieman, a spokeswoman for the governor, said in a written statement.

Republicans are expected to be uniformly opposed to the bill, but they are in big minorities in the House and Senate. The GOP can try to slow the advance of the measure, but they are mostly powerless to stop it.

Gun rights groups are likely to sue to invalidate the measure should it pass.

The ban would go into effect Sept. 1. First-time violations would constitute a Class 2 misdemeanor offense, punishable by jail time and a fine, while a subsequent offense would constitute a Class 6 felony also punishable by prison.

A gun dealer who violates the law would have their license revoked. Violating the law would also prompt the state to bar a person from purchasing a firearm for five years, unless they were convicted of the felony offense, in which case they would be permanently prohibited from possessing a gun.

Most semiautomatic guns — pistols and rifles — accept detachable magazines.

That means weapons that would fall under the ban would include the AR-15 and its variants, as well as AK-47s, TEC-9s, Beretta Cx4 Storms, Sig Sauer SG550s, MAC-10s, and Derya MK-12s.

Other weapons that may be affected include the popular Smith & Wesson M&P 5.7 and Walther CCP, which are pistols. The measure specifically bans the sale, purchase and manufacture of gas-operated semiautomatic handguns.

The bill would give the attorney general the power to list which firearms would be prohibited under the measure. That appears to be an attempt to prevent manufacturers from finding loopholes in the law.

The measure would have exceptions for bolt-, pump-, lever- and slide-action guns, as well as weapons purchased by law enforcement or the military.

Senate Bill 3, should it pass the legislature and be signed into law, would not outlaw possession of the firearms covered by the bill. That means people who have the weapons before the measure goes into effect wouldn’t be affected.

The lead sponsor of the bill is Sullivan. Other main sponsors include Sen. Julie Gonzales, D-Denver, and Democratic Reps. Meg Froelich of Arapahoe County and Andrew Boesenecker of Fort Collins.

Democrats in the legislature are pitching Senate Bill 3 as a way to enforce Colorado’s 2013 law banning ammunition magazines with a capacity greater than 15 rounds. Violations of the law have been widely documented, and magazines with a capacity larger than 15 rounds have been used in at least two mass shootings in Colorado since 2013.

“It’s a high capacity magazine enforcement bill,” Sullivan said. “We passed that legislation in 2013. We’ve had 11 years since then. We haven’t gotten buy-in from the industry — they continue to ship high capacity magazines into the state. We haven’t gotten the buy-in from retailers, hobbyists. This is the next step to the enforcement.”

But the reality is gun manufacturers don’t appear to produce versions of the weapons that would be banned under the bill that don’t use or accept detachable magazines, meaning the effect would go far beyond enforcement of the 2013 law.

Sullivan said manufacturers could produce versions of their weapons that have a permanently attached, or “fixed,” 15-round magazine to adhere to the bill, if it passes.

“They will if they want to continue to sell here within the state of Colorado,” he said. “This is a big market.”

Fixed magazines cannot be removed from a gun without tools. Weapons with fixed magazines are often loaded one bullet at a time and thus are must slower to reload than a detachable-magazine firearm.

The bills banning a wide swath of semiautomatic weapons that were brought in 2023 and 2024 died in the House the first year and the Senate in the second after the measures’ sponsors failed to secure enough Democratic votes to advance them.

But the interpersonal and political dynamics at the Capitol have changed since then, and Sullivan’s lead sponsorship of Senate Bill 3 gives the measure a big boost. Sullivan opposed the 2023 and 2024 measures, saying a ban on so-called assault weapons should only be done on the federal level.

Senate Bill 3 was assigned to the Senate State Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. It hasn’t been scheduled for its first hearing yet.

via Hawk

"Welcome to a regular Tuesday at school in America"

Told Ya

Name a country under an authoritarian strongman's government where the citizens are encouraged to - or even allowed to - walk around with guns.

Here's a new guy I'm checkin' out:

Kinda Shitty - But

... it's pretty much peak Rich Guy Privilege for CEOs to be suddenly all paranoid about the probability of getting shot down in the street.

You know - like school kids, and shoppers at Walmart, and folks at a country music concert, or just regular people watching the local 4th of July parade - or any random black guy driving the wrong car at the wrong time thru the wrong neighborhood.

These corporate pricks are so worried, that security firms are being inundated by phone calls from the bigger corporations, begging for protection.

Got some news for ya, fellas:

This is America. We have lots of guns, and a bunch of us are carrying a heavy dose of grievance, and we're constantly being encouraged to think about solving our problems with gun violence.

Do you get it now?

Are you thinking maybe the seal has been broken? ie: people see what they take as a little righteous retribution, so now there's a fair probability that some of us will assume it's open season on rich pukes like Brian Thompson?

Can we reasonably anticipate that certain attitudes of certain power-holders will undergo a sudden rapid shift?

I dunno. I'm just asking questions.

Followup

Here's a weird-ish little something that tags along after that healthcare CEO got popped in NYC.

People will only be pushed so far.

Here's The Deal

When you start doing something

to keep school kids safe

from gun violence,

then I'll start to give a fuck

about some low-rent self-important

dingleberry playing with himself

on his own private golf course.

Worth A Try

OK, ammosexuals, let's make a deal. We'll say OK to all the shitty things you ignore about what women have to go thru to get an abortion, if you'll agree to a few changes in what it takes for a man to get a gun.