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April 14, 2003 10:45 AM

Fatal Shooting at New Orleans High School. Another violent high school death. Bush should send troops to liberate New Orleans.
posted by The Jesse Helms (24 comments total)

Nice Bush work in. Next time, see if you can work Patty Hearst into an unrelated post.
posted by eyeballkid at 10:52 AM on April 14, 2003

posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:56 AM on April 14, 2003

Where's nofundy? We need a poem...
posted by Cyrano at 10:59 AM on April 14, 2003

Best. Troll. Ever.
posted by xmutex at 11:20 AM on April 14, 2003

NewsFilter, bare nra link, and gratuitous Bush reference. Why, The Jesse Helms, I think you just managed the very rare "Troll Trifecta"!
posted by pardonyou? at 11:23 AM on April 14, 2003

Didn't the government threaten to send in the National Guard to liberate New Orleans from its police force a few years ago?

Conspiracy theorists note the second hit in this Google query, which doesn't even match Google's cache any more. Spooky stuff.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 11:30 AM on April 14, 2003

"Bush should send troops to liberate New Orleans". That is so racist. Well, I'm heading to I-Hop, heard about their special?
posted by Mack Twain at 11:31 AM on April 14, 2003

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posted by Space Coyote at 11:33 AM on April 14, 2003

I mean why the NRA link? Need to find more articles to link EVERY SINGLE WORD?? Try Google news.
posted by omidius at 11:42 AM on April 14, 2003

TJH, I am impressed.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 11:45 AM on April 14, 2003

heavy meta, TJH (I would hope. Otherwise this is the most vile t-rizzo ever.)
posted by chandy72 at 11:51 AM on April 14, 2003

Police said gunfire from an AK-47 assault rifle erupted near the John McDonogh High School gymnasium at about 10:30 a.m. Police do not yet know how the gun was smuggled onto the campus, which has metal detectors and is patrolled by four armed security officers.

Interesting. I assume the rifle could have been disassembled and taken in piece by piece to make it less bulky, but that doesn't get around the metal detectors.

I mean why the NRA link

If you are going to troll the waters so blatantly with a post of this nature, a link to the gun fanatic's club is mandatory.
posted by bargle at 11:54 AM on April 14, 2003

Did the minimum-age requirement for new MeFi accounts get lowered recently, or something?
posted by dhoyt at 11:58 AM on April 14, 2003

**sucks thumb**

Whaddaya tryin' to sat there hoyt?

Now somebody burp me, dammit!
posted by jonmc at 12:01 PM on April 14, 2003

There, there, jonmc...(pats jonmc's back)

jonmc then emits a Barney Gumble-size burp, thereby rupturing the space-time continuum of this thread.
posted by davidmsc at 12:07 PM on April 14, 2003

I thought the liberating Bush line was just a joke. Simmer down, people. The NRA reference was a bit of politicizing, but I feel confident that Mr. Helms is aware that New Orleans troubles have little to do with George Bush. I think we can all agree that an AK-47 in a high school is pretty fucking apalling.
posted by monkeyman at 12:22 PM on April 14, 2003

Now, in a public service effort to get The Jesse Helms to lighten up, I hereby hammer the final nail in this thread (mixing my metaphors with a Compost Tumbler), and present The Helms Bakery Truck!!! (It's an Old Los Angeles thing)
posted by wendell at 1:30 PM on April 14, 2003

I think we can all agree that an AK-47 in a high school anywhere is pretty fucking apalling.

There, now I agree.
posted by Ufez Jones at 2:02 PM on April 14, 2003

There, now I agree.
Yeah, but now I do not.
posted by thirteen at 2:04 PM on April 14, 2003

did the helms bakery truck serve....


pancakes?
posted by mr_mindless at 2:06 PM on April 14, 2003

Hmmm...I'm guessing that TJH is referring to the AK-47's widespread use in countries supplied with arms by the former Soviet Union...e.g. Afghanistan, Iraq...

...or maybe not...
posted by i_cola at 2:14 PM on April 14, 2003

a link to the gun fanatic's club is mandatory

The NRA is to the second amendment as the ACLU is to the first. I don't think they're really behind the whole automatic weapons in school thing, either.
posted by majcher at 2:40 PM on April 14, 2003

I'd kill you, if I could afford it. You better hope I can't get no bullets on lay-away.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 2:59 PM on April 14, 2003

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Thank you, Space Coyote.
posted by hippugeek at 3:30 PM on April 14, 2003