Random News and Notes
We kick off this edition of RNN with the news of not one, but two, mass shootings. You have probably heard quite a bit about the first one, but fairly little about the second.
Around 1830 Monday evening the first reports of an active shooter at 345 Park ave in mid-town Manhattan started rolling in. BY the time the shooting stopped, 4 innocents were dead including one NYPD officer. The shooter – who I will not name – seemingly took the coward’s way out and shot himself to death.
The tenants of the building may be of note. Among many others, the NFL has offices on the 33rd floor where the shooting took place. It is being reported the shooter left a note alluding to having played in the NFL and having suffered from CTE. None of the reporting I’ve seen corroborates this claim however.
The other shooting, the one that isn’t getting a ton of coverage happened outside a casino in Reno. (Cue Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash.) Three people died in that shooting and 2 more are in critical condition. The shooter is also in the hospital after suffering a gunshot wound. The shooting happened around 0730 local time Monday morning.
At this point there isn’t any motive or identification of the Reno shooter. If anything earth-shaking about either scumbag comes out you can be sure there will be an update.
. . . and manifestos of mass public shooters show a disturbing pattern: they deliberately choose locations where they know their victims can’t fight back due to restrictive gun laws. While it remains unknown whether this particular killer made such a calculation, his actions align with a pattern we’ve seen repeatedly in other cases.
I’m not one for jumping in on a tragedy to push any kind of narrative, but I felt what Mr Lott had to say was both relevant and important.
AG Pam Bondi has had enough of Judge James Boasberg. She has officially filed a misconduct complaint against Boasberg for improper public comments.
. . . and we will not stand for that.
I’m not sure where this will go, the adjudicating official is an Obama appointee. That said, it may be laying a foundation for a different action against the activist judge.
A new Secret Service vehicle made it’s debut at one of Trump’s Scottish golf courses.
It looks to me to be an up-armored Polaris Ranger. Kinda want one. . .
This one is a little weird. ICE agents arrested a Jamaican illegal after he tried to buy a gun. The weird part? He was a cop in Maine. Yeah, you read that right. An illegal alien was a policeman in Maine and he got arrested after trying to buy a gun. Bill Melugin has the deets:
. . . was hired as a cop by Old Orchard Beach PD in ME, and admitted to trying to purchase the gun as part of his job. ICE says he first entered the U.S. lawfully by flying into Miami on 9/24/23, but never left on his scheduled departure flight on 10/1/2023, overstaying his visa ever since. Patricia Hyde, the Field Office Director for ICE Boston, which arrested Evans, released a blistering statement to FOX, slamming Evans’ hiring as a police officer: “Jon Luke Evans not only broke U.S. immigration law, but he also illegally attempted to purchase a firearm. Shockingly, Evans was employed as a local law enforcement officer. The fact that a police department would hire an illegal alien and unlawfully issue him a firearm while on duty would be comical if it weren’t so tragic. We have a police department that was knowingly breaking the very law they are charged with enforcing in order to employ an illegal alien. ICE Boston will continue to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing criminal alien threats from our New England communities.”
I really hope that the DOJ comes and gives this PD a barbed wire enema. The fact that a law enforcement agency knowingly hired an illegal alien to be a cop bugs the shit out of me. Any-and-everyone involved in this hiring process needs to face charges.
It seems like I’m doing one of these every day, and I’m getting tired of it. Can well-known people just stop dying for a day or two? Anyway.
I have to announce that Baseball Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg has passed. The beloved Cubs second baseman was a model of consistency in the 1980s and early ’90s, making 10 consecutive All-Star teams and winning 9 straight Gold Glove awards. Ryno hit 282 career home runs, hit 25+ homers five times and stole 30+ bases five times in his 16 years as a big leaguer.
Sandberg had been battling metastatic prostate cancer over the past two years. Ryne Sandberg was 65
I am and always have been a Yankee fan. That said, Ryno was one of my favorite players from that era. He was an outstanding 2nd baseman, a fantastic hitter and most important of all, a great human.
Sandberg is survived by his wife Margaret, five children, and 11 grandchildren.
Requiescat in pace.
