Thursday, October 31, 2024

Preview?

The headquarters of a Bangladesh party that supported the country's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina was set on fire on Thursday night. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the Jatiya Party offices in Bangladesh’s capital and it wasn't immediately clear if anyone was hurt. (AP video shot by: Abdullah Apu)
Guessing there'll be plenty of this sort of thing next Tues./Weds. Maybe worse. Dunno if Pakistan is awash in guns like the third-world garbage can that is America.
Washington Post: “The report, published Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund, an independent research group, found that the overall rate of firearms deaths in Mississippi was nearly twice that of Haiti, an impoverished Caribbean nation where violent gangs control large swaths of the country and whose president was assassinated by gunmen in 2021.”

“Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama also had higher firearms death rates than Mexico, where rival drug cartels are engaged in bloody conflict. Montana’s death rate from guns was higher than in Colombia, where drug trafficking is rife. Wyoming, Arizona and Oklahoma all ranked above Brazil. Suburban New Jersey had a higher gun death rate than Nicaragua, Mali and Djibouti.”

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