The dude in the SUV has just killed the other dude lying there on the street, and he's going to shoot the third dude, the one who's taking the photo, through both legs, shattering one of his femurs.
The story turned up in my Xhitter feed the other day as a "OMFG CRIME IN PORTLAND!!!" headline (except without the actual headline, of course, because Elmo don't roll that way anymore...).
It linked to this story in the digital version of our "local newspaper", which you can't read because it's behind a fucking paywall - local news, my ass - but trust me; it plays all the hits; it mentions "downtown violence", "unrest", "drug use" and "homeless".
In the Xhitter comments we filled in the last of the bingo card: "Democrat city" and "gun control" (as in "how's that gun control working out for you now, libs?!?")
Y'know what it DIDN'T mention?
"Financier". (or "Banker" or "Rich Prick" - y'know, coded words for "wealthy white dude"), or
"Legally owned handgun".
Because that kinda kills the whole Portland Is Over - Downtown Hellscape Edition vibe, dunnit?
You can't gin up the whole Scary Doper (Probably Colored) Hoboes theme if the nutter shooting is being done by some rich white normie with a legally-obtained concealed carry permit who's just a fucking hair-trigger asshole with an anger problem and a round under the fucking hammer, amiright?
So it's critical to rope in all that other stuff, so the rubes and MAGAts and the other FAUX-addicted ClackaCrackers can continue seamlessly hating on Portland, liberals, and the smelly poor.
But I might as well ask a dog to stop licking it's balls as expect the so-called "news" media to stop throwing this red meat to the numbskulls. I've been ringing this bell a loog, looooong time. It does no good at all. The 2nd Amendment has become why people like this rich fuckstick get to drive around fully loaded and kill people.
And, short of solving the sort of people who keep voting for "2nd Amendment Rights" over everything else?
It's not going to be solved, either.
Holy Mac, what a character.
ReplyDeleteThe New York Post has all the background on this armed and violent lunatic:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/portland-financier-geoffrey-hammond-kills-man-in-road-rage-shooting-before-taking-aim-at-filming-bystander/
And here's the thing:
ReplyDeleteI know I give the Portland coppers a lot of stick (which they totally deserve...)
But...when any and every fucknozzle like this can run around strapped and just start shooting because reasons?
No wonder they shoot first and ask questions later.
This dude is living proof that there are just WAY too many bullet-launchers out there, and too many nitwits like this dude have them.
I have no hope that will change. But this sort of thing is prima facie evidence that it should.
I'm so glad I live in the UK...
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