A QAnon Trumper driven insane by Trump’s 2020 election defeat shot his wife and daughters, then shot the family dog, too. Igor Lanis, 53, of Walled Lake, Michigan (a Detroit suburb), was killed by police when he shot at them, too. His wife, Tina Lanis, 56, died at the scene from multiple handg[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Violence’
September 12th, 2022 - 12:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Deranged QAnon Trumper even shot the dog after shooting his family
September 2nd, 2022 - 8:55 pm § in Politics
Armed mob demands library ban books it doesn’t have
What the library will do instead is close, because the library director quit and the library lost its insurance coverage. Now there’ll be no books of any kind for anyone to read, no reading programs for kids … no nothing. Watch video below. The gunmen may have ties to the Redoubt Movemen[...]
July 18th, 2022 - 9:53 pm § in News Media
Gun violence in America (video)
This NBC News special report aired on Sunday, July 17, 2022. https://youtu.be/72tBUO7fkrQ Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 20th, 2022 - 11:20 am § in Politics
Are GOPers trying to normalize violence? Sure looks like it …
You expect it from the gutter-crawlers who populate the darker corners of the GOP; but Republican candidates are increasingly adopting violence as a campaign theme — and making it seem okay. The latest: Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens (who, himself, is a gutter crawler) in the camp[...]
June 9th, 2022 - 2:28 pm § in Politics
Nearly all House Republicans vote “no” on red-flag gun law
The House passed a bill today with almost no Republican votes “to nationalize red flag laws, which seek to keep guns away from individuals deemed a threat to themselves and others,” The Hill reported on Thursday, June 9, 2022 (read story here). This one seems like a no-brainer; 19 states[...]
April 9th, 2022 - 9:14 pm § in Misc.
Can mass shootings be stopped?
A journalist (profile here) who studies mass shootings, created a mass shooting database, and wrote a book about preventing them thinks the science of behavioral threat assessment may offer a solution. Get the book here and watch video below. For an example of how it’s being used by public sch[...]
February 9th, 2022 - 11:58 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP’s favorite gun-toting attorneys in license doghouse
A St. Louis lawyer couple who threatened BLM protesters with guns (photo below) are on professional probation for a year. (Story here.) Mark and Patricia McCloskey pled guilty to misdemeanors (see story here), but were pardoned by Missouri’s GOP governor. The McCloskeys, who have a seamy histo[...]
December 3rd, 2021 - 12:56 pm § in Law and Courts
Michigan school shooter mom’s crazy letter to Trump
She wrote to Trump in 2016 to thank him for supporting “gun rights.” In rambling fuming, she blamed her son’s poor school performance on Common Core and “illegal immigrants,” asserting “most of their parents are locked up.” (Statistics show that citizens hav[...]
November 20th, 2021 - 1:08 pm § in Law and Courts
Why it’s not safe to fly
This is why: “The accidental discharge of a passenger’s weapon in a security area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic Saturday afternoon, prompting a brief halt of departing flights over the busy travel weekend,” CNN reported on November 20, [...]
June 11th, 2021 - 2:44 pm § in Misc.
America lets monsters have guns
Timothy J. Wall, 55, posted on Facebook that he desired to “kill people and children.” Then he walked into a Florida supermarket, shot a 1-year-old boy in the head, and after a brief struggle with the boy’s grandmother, shot her too. Police say they didn’t know him. Then he k[...]