Sunday, August 10, 2025

US Warzone: Three Dead in Iowa Carnage

The suspect in a double homicide and home explosion in Glenwood, IA, died after extensive burn injuries. Dennis Burnell (71) is accused of murdering Brandon Oman (38) and his wife Stevie Oman (35). This lunatic shot the married couple in their home which he then set fire to, causing an explosion. The double-homicide may have stemmed from personal disputes between the Omans and Burnell. This maniac with a firearm towards the end of his life killed two young people just beginning their lives. Iowa firearms licenses in 2021: 54,178; 43.6% of Iowans have guns in their homes.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 05:57 AM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

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Every eleven minutes an assailant uses a firearm to murder someone in the US. In an average year, 343 people die by guns in Iowa. By contrast, in 2022 the entire nation of Canada (~40 million people) suffered 344 gun-related homicides; the US lost 48,000 victims to gun-related deaths the same year. These are wartime casualty figures without a foreign invader. In Feb 2025, instead of taking steps to limit access to firearms, Dummkopf Trumpf signed an Executive Order loosening federal firearms regulations. Moreover, the NIMH reports that one in six Americans are suffering from some sort of mental illness. So, Americans should expect more firearm deaths in the future. Link: Canada Gun Deaths.
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Wow, a 2nd Amendment loon's wet dream realized!
Small price to pay for willfully misinterpreting the Constitution, eh?

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-10 06:25 AM

Good Morning Doc: You said it. And trolls on DR will argue there's no gun problem in the US. Uh-huh.

Here's the young couple: bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com

BTW: I'm enjoying Abraham Lincoln by James Dougherty (1946). I have a 1966 second printing. 'Honest Abe' was also an able boatsman on the Mississippi River like Samuel Clemens. When he passed the bar, Lincoln spent all day reading the newspapers in the tiny law office he shared with his partner. Challenged to a duel, Lincoln had the choice of weapons so he selected cavalry sabers. When the much shorter challenger arrived at the out-of-state location, he saw how tall Lincoln was and told his seconds to get him out of the jam (which they did): madison.illinoisgenweb.org

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-10 06:49 AM

Morning..Lincoln for me remains one of history's truly intriguing characters. Politically astute, he knew there was a long game and he adhered to a moral compass. Imagine that!

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-10 06:58 AM

Lincoln was an "uncommon commoner" in touch with the working man. He maintained his principles from the get-go. As a young riverman, he visited New Orleans and saw the slave auction which appalled him. His desire in the 1850s was to stop the spread of slavery in the new Western states. Lincoln wanted to let slavery die out in the South by the federal government buying their freedom eventually. BTW: In view of Capitol Hill was a slave auction house which reminded Congressman Lincoln of New Orleans.

This is the book I am enjoying: www.goodreads.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-10 07:32 AM

Appreciate the book tip.

Truly, Lincoln never ceases to amaze.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-10 07:37 AM

#5: One more lead, Doc: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-10 07:48 AM

Thanks

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-10 10:05 AM

Get over it already.

~ Pedo 47 ~

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-10 04:25 PM

I read the article. No mention of prior mental illness. Do have other information?

#9 | Posted by mattm at 2025-08-12 10:45 AM

Dennis Burnell had a history of disputes with the victims and other neighbors; he was fined for harassing one of them. Would a sane person shoot two people then go home and set fire to his own home? Authorities can't interrogate a corpse, so they will have to collect testimony about Dennis Burnell's aggressive behavior from his neighbors.

According to one think-tank, up to 54% of Americans suffer from an undiagnosed (and therefore) untreated mental illness.

Links:

news.faharas.net

thematurehardcore.net

www.turnbridge.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-12 01:07 PM

The vast majority of those with undiagnosed mental illness are in the depression/anxiety spectrum. The DSM has expanded to include so many over the last two generations.
Someone suffering from mental illness is more likely to be a victim than the perpetrator of crime. news.ncsu.edu

#11 | Posted by mattm at 2025-08-12 02:10 PM

Thanks for the info, Matt. From your medical perspective and without access to his files, where do you assess Dennis Burnell fell along this expanded depression/anxiety spectrum?

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-12 02:29 PM

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by --------."
Sigmund Freud

He may or may not have actually said this, but some people are just --------.

The DSM is now including so many of what use to be called the worried well. Look at how the number of people being diagnosed with ADHD and Autism Spectrum disorder (neither associated with violence).

An old rule from the APA after the Goldwater debacle was that we are not to pontificate about individuals without evaluating them. Many of my colleagues are tossing that to the side to weigh in on social issues and politicians.

#13 | Posted by mattm at 2025-08-12 03:44 PM

Good info, Matt, this is your expertise. Like many veterans, I suffer from PTSD: loud noises turn my head immediately and I'm unsettled. I avoid all fireworks shows and I haven't been to a shooting range in decades. But I suffer no nightmares, like one of my poor friends who has been going to the VA for years.

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-12 03:56 PM

I had my own PTSD and then started working at the VA. Should have written it up for vicarious PTSD. I have been on the Bataan Death March and various jungle excursions in Vietnam. 30 years later and my own deployment most of it is quiet now. I can go to a range if only myself and one other. Live under the flight line from St. Cloud to Camp Ripley so that can occasionally stir things up but much better than years ago. My personal trauma is related to Huey's so the UH 1's and Chinooks don't really bother me that much.
I don't go to the VA for groups anymore, just a pissing contest trying to one up each other as to who had the worst trauma, not very therapeutic imo.

#15 | Posted by mattm at 2025-08-12 04:13 PM

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