- D.C. BLOGGER SHOT: Media Consortium reporter Brian Beutler was gunned down in Adams Morgan “pretty much directly in front of Andrew Sullivan’s apartment.” Beutler and a buddy were walking from the Black Cat to The Diner late Tuesday night when two teen-age gangsters tried to mug them, and Beutler was shot at least once. He’s in the hospital, his spleen was removed, and he’s supposed to make a full recovery. Beutler’s been reporting on U.S. torture and the ongoing FISA outrage. [DCist/Reason/Gawker]
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…should I change my screen name from AngryBlakGuy to maybe PatrioticWhiteLovinBlakGuy(and when I say white loving Im not referring to your women sir)?
WTF is up with Adams Morgan lately? Where the hell are these thugs coming from? I’d say they need to have that place crawling with undercover cops to get these shits.
…”teen-age gangsters”? As card carrying blak man I will need to meet with these teenagers to verify their “Gangsta”. Sorry, but we cant be having common “hoodlums” running around claiming to be “Gangstas”!
[re=29410]seanr1978[/re]: MPD should have plenty of resources available now that school is out of session and they’re not roaming in hordes on the “Party Patrol” in Georgetown….
Fortunately, Antonin Scalia was unharmed.
Snark aside, I’m glad Beutler’s going to be okay, though.
[re=29412]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Yeah, but white people who type “gangsta,” without irony, are douches.
I’m assuming that Andrew Sullivan, ensconced in his sniper’s nest, mistook him for Hillary Clinton.
[re=29416]Ken Layne[/re]: …agreed.
A) I am sorry he went through this and am glad he’s going to be OK
B) However, if his spleen was removed, how can he continue blogging?
C) And now I’m ashamed of myself, so there. :p
Glad he’s ok. Losing the spleen will have serious long-term consequences though.
Will Our Wonkette be getting secret service protection? Someone might try to rob you for your whore diamonds.
[re=29426]TGY[/re]: …what the hell is a spleen used for anyways?
[re=29426]TGY[/re]: Ceasing blogging = full recovery.
This guy’s like the Fitty Cent of the blogging community, though. I fully expect all his posts to conclude with “and, also, I was shot THREE times in D.C.! I lost my spleen, bitches!”
Damn West Coast bloggers hatin’ on the East Coast.
[re=29431]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Why venting, of course. Or in this unfortunate case, ventilating.
Some asswipe vented his angry, and some blogger can no longer vent his spleeny. This shit is sad. Get better, blogger. Die, asswipe.
Good job, SCOTUS.
I’m so happy that the Supreme Court has made it easier for innocent people to get shot on their way home. Its JUSTICE INACTION!! Huzzah!!
How do you make a full recovery sans spleen?
[re=29431]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Helps fight infections and filters the blood. Without this, you become vulnerable to infections. Without one, you will probably be on meds the rest of your life. Here is a link, but am sure the vast army of Wonkette can provide better info.
[re=29452]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I’m betting the gun used wasn’t obtained legally in the first place, making the law against having it pretty useless.
I’m a social worker and just got back from a walk to the WIC office at 16th and Euclid…and this is the first post I see.
From now on, my intern will be making the WIC office visits for me. Huzzah!
I hope to see a quick recovery and return to blogging for Brian.
[re=29431]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: I’ve known a couple of people who have had them removed. They continue to enjoy life/drink heavily.
Yet David Brooks and William Kristol walk the streets un-shot-up.
Sorry, just me once giving scientific evidence that there is and has never been a god.
The Wikipedia entry on “spleen” says that 10% of people have extra “accessory” spleenage! It apparently just grows in one or more extra clumps in some people in the general vicinity of the main organ. Also that without the spleen you’re more prone to certain infections. So that’s a bummer.
[re=29412]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Where do you get your cards???
@everyone:
So it’s like HIV, but for gun victims. At this rate, NO ONE in the District is going to be able to survive the next influenza epidemic.
[re=29511]NotUrEvryDayWEzl[/re]: snicker
Unrelated tangent – Ken, if you’re reading:
Any plans to make user pages like Gawker had? I like being able to click on my Deadspin/Jalopnik/Gawker userpage in the morning and see what drunken angry comments I’ve left overnight.
RIP
I’m no Columbo, but my first thought was: “Where was LNS on Tuesday night?” Sounds like a vicious kinda take-down to me. And even if they didn’t do it, can we fry them anyway? [Maybe save a few of the better looking weemens for breeding purposes, but the rest..... *poof!*]
[re=29450]InsidiousTuna[/re]: If I spent much time in that area, stylish body armor would be worn after dark and clubbing. Old Nam body armor too heavy too hot and too over there.
[re=29507]columnv[/re]: …well first you have to master the dreaded “black handshake”, followed by fathering at a minimum of 3 children(with 3 women and no child support) and then you must be able to recite every verse in Jay-Z’s “Black Album” verbatim!
Boy, those gun control laws sure make D.C. safe, don’t they?
That STUPID Supreme Court: Failing to recognize that the District was as safe as . . . say . . . New York City.
SAFE!
I ponder what would have happened if this mugging had taken place in . . . say . . . Salt Lake City?
Hmmm.
I can visualize the headline: “Muggers NOT Extinct! Local Reporter Bags TWO Outside Local Preserve!”
One would hope that no citizens would be injured in the rush to get appropriate game tags from the local Fish & Wildlife Department.
guess he shoulda’ listened to the SCOTUS and packed him some heat
ironic
Best Wishes for a speedy recovery
The Neocons paid two black teenagers to shoot a blogger.
That, sirs, is Nixonian. Alert Kevin Drum posthaste!
[re=29452]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Um, the SCOTUS decision had to do with regular bitters keeping handguns IN THEIR HOUSES, not with scumbags totin’ shooting irons on the street. That’s still highly illegal, and as you can see the crack DC meter readers, er police, are all over it.
If Brian had had a CCW and a handgun, the shooter could have traded the gun for
a BIG rock of crack cocaine.
Damned liberals.
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