I don’t recall ever seeing anyone gunned down at a Tea Party rally.

Update:

Eyewitness claims shooting was the result of a disagreement over a bag of weed. I don’t recall any disagreements over bags of weed at any Tea Party protests. We Conservatives don’t expect to mooch off other people’s greenery. We bring our own bag.

A gunman recently laid off from his job at IBM went on a shooting rampage today at a NY state immigration center killing 13 people before taking his own life.

If you depend on the mainstream media for information, you’re probably under the impression that McCain/Palin rallies are more like Klan rallies — but that’s a lie.

The supposed incident during a McCain/Palin rally last week where someone yelled “kill him” about Barack Obama — it never happened.

Unlike the perceived hate on the right, the hate on the left has been well documented over the last eight years. The viciousness of some Obama supporters is unrivaled in American political history.

The latest incident of hate took place on Sunday. Shots were fired at the McCain/Palin bus (The Straight Talk Express) shattering a window. The shooting occurred in southern New Mexico and the weapon used was identified as a .22 caliber rifle. Thankfully, neither candidate was on board at the time.

Can you f*cking imagine if someone shot at Obama’s bus? It would be wall to wall coverage right up to election day. The NY Times would decry McCain’s ‘hateful’ campaign, etc.

Since it was McCain’s bus that was shot at, you hear absolutely nothing.

The silence is deafening.

-Chris Jones

A grand jury cleared a Pasadena, Texas, man today in the shooting deaths of two suspected burglars as they left his neighbor’s house — a case that stirred a national debate over whether he was a vigilante or a hero.

For the vast majority of people here in Texas Joe Horn is without a doubt a hero. Horn noticed two men crawling out of his neighbor’s window carrying stolen loot in broad daylight, and chose to intervene.

Those rascals at Google are constantly dealing with the unintended consequences of their controversial but really cool Google Maps/Street Scenes.

When you zoom to “street view” in one part of Chicago, what comes up is interesting to say the least. It looks like the Google team accidentally captured a shooting in progress.

The image shows a kid aiming a pistol at another kid (a much smaller kid) as he’s running away.

Click HERE to see this unique “Street view” in all its “gangsta” glory.

(thanks to Gawker)

Rapper Remy Ma was sentenced to 8 years in prison today for shooting a woman two times in the abdomen outside a Manhattan night club, then fleeing the scene.

The entertainer, whose real name is Remy Smith, had faced up to 25 years in prison for assault, weapon possession and attempted coercion for shooting Makeda Barnes Joseph last July in a dispute over money.

Smith, 26, begged the judge for leniency for the sake of “my little boy,” saying she grew up “surrounded by failure, violence and poverty,” but “made something out of nothing” from her life.

State Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller said she recognized that Smith had had a difficult childhood, but noted the victim had nearly died and will never be the same physically. Uviller called the rapper “a young woman whose anger is out of control.”

Eight years may seem like a long time, but it’s about time rap artists are held to account for their actions. I’m a huge fan of hip-hop and listen to it every day, but Remy deserved to go to prison.

The woman Remy shot barely survived and according to the Judge will never be the same. Remy is correct when she says she “made something out of nothing” which is what makes this whole case so tragic.

Remy is allegedly a millionaire, but was willing to throw her entire life away and murder someone over $2,000. Let’s make no mistake about it, you don’t shoot someone twice with a .45 caliber pistol in the stomach unless you intend to kill them.

So now Remy’s son will be without a mother for the next 8 years because mommy thought she was living in a Scarface movie instead of the real world.

-Chris Jones

Rapper Remy Ma thought a woman in her entourage stole $3,000 from her purse so she pulled out a .45 caliber pistol and shot her outside a nightclub last year.

Remy claimed that she did indeed shoot the woman, but it was accidental. She tried to snatch the woman’s purse from her to see if the missing money was inside and the gun went off during the scuffle.

Naturally, the jury rejected the ridiculous story and found her guilty of intentional assault and several other charges. Remy Ma whose real name is Remy Smith is now facing a maximum of 25 years in prison, but a minimum of 10 years.

Remy Ma maintained an arrogant swagger throughout the trial, wearing flamboyant clothing and acting as if the whole episode was movie and not real life.

The judge wasn’t amused and ordered her to remain in jail until her sentencing later this month. Meaning that Remy Ma has at a minimum 10 years to figure out why she threw her life and career away for $3,000.

Ms. Smith, 26, kept her composure as Justice Rena K. Uviller ordered her jailed until her sentencing next month.

It was only when court officers slammed the heavy door to the courtroom holding cell behind her that she broke down, wailing, “My son! My son!” over and over again. Mr. Fisher said later that Ms. Smith had been so optimistic that she would be acquitted that she had not said goodbye to her 8-year-old son that morning.

Now that’s gangsta!

-Chris Jones

From the AP:

A gunman wearing a jacket and tie wordlessly and randomly opened fire inside a Wendy’s during the lunchtime rush Monday, killing a firefighter who’d gone back to fetch his child’s toy and wounding five other diners. He then turned the gun on himself.

“This was not a robbery. He didn’t demand anything…,” said Paul Miller, a Palm Beach County sheriff’s spokesman. “Looks like this was just another random shooting like we’ve seen around the United States.”

The 42-year-old victim, a Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue lieutenant, had met his wife and child at the restaurant, Deputy Fire-Rescue Chief Steve Delai said. The family had just left, but the man returned to retrieve a toy his child had left behind and was shot in the back as he stood at the counter, Delai said.

“Our officer probably didn’t even see him,” Delai said, adding that the man’s wife and child were still in the parking when the shooting broke out.

Three of the survivors were in critical condition, sheriff’s spokeswoman Teri Barbera said. Two others had minor injuries, including one person who was injured while running away.

It really is horrible what happened to that firefighter. That is the kind of incident that is totally random, and nothing can be done to prepare for or situations like that.

One minute your eating lunch and the next minute your shot.

It’s all a matter of chance. Had that firefighter gone back to get the toy a minute later or a minute sooner would the outcome have been different? We’ll never know the answer to that, but nevertheless the entire episode is a senseless tragedy.

If only these whack jobs would just kill themselves instead taking innocent people with them.

-Chris Jones 

A man with a rifle opened fire at a busy department store Wednesday, killing eight people before taking his own life, in an attack that made holiday shoppers barricade themselves in dressing rooms. Five more people were wounded, two critically.

Witnesses said the gunman fired down on shoppers from a third-floor balcony of the Von Maur store.

The gunman was found dead on the third floor with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and his victims were discovered on the second and third floors, police said.

I’m so tired of these cowardly attacks in schools and shopping malls. Why can’t these nuts just kill themselves instead of committing mass murder.

-Chris Jones