This is America

As many of you may have noted, one of Kentucky’s fine citizens decided to exercise his God given 2nd Amendment rights in the direction of random motorists on I-75…

Rebecca Puryear is facing surgery but is thankful to be alive after she was one of five people shot and seriously injured while traveling on Interstate 75 in Southern Kentucky Saturday afternoon. Someone shot through the passenger-side window of Puryear’s 2021 Toyota Camry, hitting her in the right arm. The bullet continued across her chest and burst into fragments when it hit the driver-side door, injuring her left arm, Puryear said. She still had fragments in her chest Sunday, she said. The pain from being shot wasn’t as bad as she expected, though, and she was grateful her injuries weren’t worse and that her husband and son weren’t shot. “I’m thanking God every second of the day, said Puryear, 28. “This could’ve been so much worse.”

I-75 was shut down in both directions for a while, and there’s a manhunt for the suspect:

A person of interest was identified as 32-year-old Joseph A. Couch, and he remains at-large Sunday morning. He is considered armed and dangerous, and authorities urge you to call 911 if you see him. Police were searching for Couch in a rugged, wooded part of north Laurel County on Saturday, and they were slated to resume the search at daybreak Sunday morning.

There’s lots of stuff out there about Couch which does not quite seem to be confirmed yet, but it looks at the very least as if he was known to local police as a troublemaker of some significance. In America, that and an AR-15 will buy you a week of notoriety, or at least until the next mass shooting or assassination attempt. It is also perhaps worth noting that in shutting down I-75 this particular shooting caused actual commercial inconvenience to important local gentry, something you’d hope that the petit bourgeoisie would take into account when they decide on their political donations.