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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

As many as three persons were killed during shooting at a Target store in Austin, TX. Fleeing, the lunatic stole a car, crashed it, then hijacked another vehicle before being caught. The suspect is a man in his 30s with a documented history of mental health issues. Two victims were declared dead at the scene, while a third victim died in the hospital. Emergency responders treated one person at the scene for injuries. This incident came after two persons were killed, six others left wounded in a shooting during a music festival after-party in downtown Los Angeles last week. The other day, the mother of Natalie Rupnow, the fifteen-year-old girl who shot and killed two people and wounded six more at Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) in Madison, WI last December, died by an apparent suicide. Link: Mother Kills Herself.

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Every eleven minutes, someone in the US is murdered by an assailant using a firearm. The CDC reported that 48,000 people were killed by guns in 2022. In an average year in Texas, 4,330 people die by guns. This is over ten killings per day and wartime casualty rates. Texas firearms licenses in 2021: 1,006,555; 45.7% of Texan adults say they live in homes with guns. According to the NIMH, one in six US adults lives with a mental illness (43.4 million in 2015). Link: NIMH. In Feb 2025, NRA-endorsed Dummkopf Trumpf recently loosened firearm regulations, so Americans can see more gun mayhem like this in the future. Link: Trumpf Ukase. Below are some victims of 21st-century American firearm violence.
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The trained, drilled, and regulated militia strikes again.
Thoughts and prayers.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-12 06:11 AM | Reply

Hi Doc:

Abe Lincoln was elected a company commander in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk Wars (21 April 1832 to 10 July 1832). His company marched around for three months but never engaged with the enemy. Abe Lincoln did however provide medical assistance to other units in the aftermath of their encounters with the indigenous warriors. Except for a handful of "rasslin" matches with his fellow rugged frontiersmen, I don't think Abraham Lincoln ever personally hurt or killed anybody in his life, nor did he want to.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-12 06:42 AM | Reply

Excellent point.
I get the feeling he was loaded with empathy.
That can be a rough cargo to haul.
Especially considering the business he got into.
It's as if he absorbed that war.
And, in the end, it killed him.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-12 07:06 AM | Reply

#3: Well said. He amnestied many Union soldiers from execution and expressly ordered no vengeance against the defeated Confederates after the surrender. Only two Confederates were executed for war crimes after the Civil War and Lincoln may not even have heard of it.

Lincoln read Shakespeare and enjoyed the humor of this man: en.wikipedia.org

Lincoln would read his jokes before the Cabinet meeting. He said he would "die" if there were no humor around him to fight the depression and gravity of the casualty counts.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-12 07:45 AM | Reply

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