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Newly-divorced mother who shot dead her three children then killed herself in a triple murder-suicide was an anti-gun violence activist who battled depression, anxiety, and lupus

        Ashley Auzenne, 39, was found dead Tuesday along with her children in Texas
        Her divorce with the children's father, Murvin, had been finalized just last week
        Murvin Auzenne Jr. said his estranged wife was 'was very upset with the result'
        She had been battling anxiety, depression and a host of other health problems
        Auzenne had also campaigned on social media to end gun violence
        Their bodies were found after a relative called for a welfare check at their home
        Auzenne posted a picture to Facebook calling for an end to gun violence in 2018

This is an alt-left mass murder, except she didn't (quite) kill enough to be "mass".
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7642577/Newly-divorced-mother-shot-dead-three-children-killed-battling-depression.html

Father of slain Deer Park children 'devastated'

The father of three children who were found shot to death with their mother inside the family’s Deer Park home this week said he was shocked at the idea his estranged wife could be responsible.

Murvin Auzenne Jr. said he and his wife were nearing the end of a contentious divorce and “she was very upset with the result.” He said she was particularly distressed that she would not be able to move with their children to her hometown, and would have to get a job and pay him rent if she remained in their home.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Father-of-Deer-Park-children-slain-14574739.php

Deaths of Deer Park mother, 3 children ruled murder-suicide
The paternal grandfather of the three children found dead inside a home with their mother says their family is "completely devastated."
Author: Jason Miles
Published: 5:31 PM CDT October 30, 2019
Updated: 3:20 PM CDT October 31, 2019

DEER PARK, Texas — UPDATE: The deaths of a Deer Park woman and her three children have been ruled a murder-suicide.

Deer Park officials Tweeted the information out Thursday afternoon:

PREVIOUSLY: Deer Park police still guard the house where officers discovered four bodies Tuesday morning.

They were later identified by Deer Park police as a mother and her three children: Ashley Auzenne, 39; Parrish Auzenne, 11; Eleanor Auzenne, 9; Lincoln Auzenne, 7.

Police initially declined to say if they suspected a murder-suicide. However, they stated they weren’t pursuing suspects and that there was no danger to the community.

All of the bodies suffered gunshot wounds.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/there-are-no-villains-only-victims-family-speaks-following-deaths-of-mother-three-children-in-deer-park/285-159540e3-ef40-4bcd-aaf5-6dc532715642

After getting final divorce papers, anti-gun activist mother shoots her 3 young children dead: Police

As school staff at a Texas elementary school worried about how the children of a newly-divorced couple would cope with their new life changes, the mother of the kids shot them dead following her finalized divorced.

ABC 13 reports that authorities found the bodies of Parrish Auzenne, 11, Eleanor Auzenne, 9, and Lincoln Auzenne, 7, inside their Deer Park home off of New Orleans Street on Tuesday morning. After the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled their deaths as murder, detectives said that their 39-year-old mother, Ashley Auzenne, was the primary suspect.

After killing her children, Auzenne then turned the gun on herself, causing fatal injuries. Her death was listed as suicide.

Note how Ashely's friends makes excuses for her:

According to court documents, Ashley Auzenne was the one who filed for divorce.

One of Ashley Auzenne’s friends, Carrie Junot, called the woman “the sweetest person” who seemed dedicated to all of her children.

        “She was a mom, completely about making sure her kids were happy and taken care of. I know she was dealing with a bunch of stuff personally and medically…..She was the nicest person you could have met, opened her doors to people and advocated for her son.”

Another friend, Mary Dybka, reportedly said Ashley Auzenne was vocal about her disdains of guns and gun violence. Dybka said the pair would joke that Ashley was “more Yankee then Texan with her Democratic views and strict gun control beliefs.”

Dybka told the Houston Chronicle that her friend was the victim of emotional abuse.

“I know he had been extremely controlling and extremely verbally abusive,” she said, referring to Auzenne Jr.

Auzenne Jr.’s father, however, told CBS 11 that there is “no rational explanation” for what happened.

“When young innocents die like this, there is no rational explanation. We will never know why Ashley acted as she did, but we offer our heartfelt prayers to her family,” Murvin Auzenne Sr. said. “Until law enforcement completes its investigation, we ask the public to please respect our need to grieve our loss in private.

https://www.crimeonline.com/2019/11/01/after-getting-final-divorce-papers-anti-gun-activist-mother-shoots-her-3-young-children-dead-police/

And, that's how progressives will do ya. No guns for you, only for them. I'll give 100 to 1 odds the kids didn't have access to guns to defend themselves with. Another small-scale socialist monster here.

Also - do a search, and note the networks that are carrying the story. No extreme-right gun-nut here, so the US leftist MSM isn't interested in the story. Of the big networks, only ABC has it - https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-mom-newly-divorced-kills-young-children-coroner/story?id=66682355

A local Fox station, the NY Post, and quite a large number of fringe news networks, such as Heavy and FreeRepublic.

I'm not going to recap the recent history of 8chan, or 8ch.net. It appeared that it was dead. But, no, it's still alive. That, or someone has put up a reasonable facsimile thereof. 8kun.net It appears they are having some kind of issues, pages take many seconds to load. I was curious how long it would take them to get back online. I'm also curious if some of their stupid shit will be toned down. Not all boards are operational yet, it seems. Enjoy . . . ?

On the Internet, truth is not optimized. On the Web, it’s not enough to battle falsehood with truth; the truth doesn’t always win. In the age of social media, the marketplace model doesn’t work. A 2016 Stanford study showed that 82 percent of middle schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and an actual news story. Only a quarter of high school students could tell the difference between an actual verified news site and one from a deceptive account designed to look like a real one.

Since World War II, many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred. These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.

I think it’s time to consider these statutes. The modern standard of dangerous speech comes from Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) and holds that speech that directly incites “imminent lawless action” or is likely to do so can be restricted. Domestic terrorists such as Dylann Roof and Omar Mateen and the El Paso shooter were consumers of hate speech. Speech doesn’t pull the trigger, but does anyone seriously doubt that such hateful speech creates a climate where such acts are more likely?

I see here speech inciting the crime of violating the First Amendment. What should the punishment be by the above incredibly vague and sloppy standard be? Yet another idiot who is disinterested in the consequences of their own fixes.

Yes it is.

“If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far,” the former president said.

His remarks have been reported on, and predictably sparked outrage.

But what effect will it really have?

In other news, and an incredibly blatant example of gaslighting; the New York Times quietly edited an article about HRC saying Rep. Gabbard was being groomed 'by Russians' to read 'by Republicans' instead.

Apparently they did this in acquiescence to her aids, who asserted that the 'context' concerned Republicans, despite the fact that her words have been recorded and reported and reproduced many times.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/turns-out-hillary-clinton-said-republicans-not-russians-were-grooming-tulsi-gabbard-2019-10-24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_XY5dM93Q

We Will Not Be Silenced.

Tucson police: Woman shoots 2 intruders dead
Shaq Davis Arizona Daily Star Oct 17, 2019 Updated Oct 23, 2019

A woman shot and killed two men who were trying to break into her midtown home early Wednesday morning, police said.

The woman was not injured in the confrontation. Her home was specifically targeted in the attempted home invasion, said Sgt. Pete Dugan, Tucson Police Department spokesman. The attempted home invasion appears to have been narcotics related, he said.

Officer Frank Magos, a Tucson police spokesman gave the following account in a news release:

The woman, who was alone in the home, woke up around 3:45 a.m. to noise coming from the rear of the house.

She confronted and shot the two men accused of trying to force their way into the home in the 4600 block of East Duncan Street. The home is near North Swan and East Grant roads.

The woman then sought help from a neighbor and called 911.

Officers arrived to find the two who were shot, Corey Teixeira, 18, and Ali Mohamed, 18, in the home’s backyard.

Teixeira was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities transported Mohamed to a hospital where he died shortly after arriving.

It is unclear if the woman will face charges, Dugan said.

Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call 88-CRIME, an anonymous tipster line.

Wednesday’s shooting is one of more than 100 incidents in the area reported to law enforcement in the past six months, according to Crime Reports, a crime-tracking website.

“I’m definitely going to get a gun to protect myself, too,” said Jay Spencer, a neighbor who has lived in the area for about seven months.

Spencer said that in the short time he has lived there, he already has caught a man attempting to break into the rear of his home. When police arrived, the man had already fled, he said.

He said there have been several other recent crime-related incidents in the neighborhood, including a woman reporting a break-in at her home, items stolen from a truck, as well as a person shown on video stealing a cactus from a home.

“There’s not enough enforcement, to be honest,” Spencer said.

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-woman-shoots-intruders-dead/article_c70d5fe6-f022-11e9-99d7-fbeb8a97095c.html

Ohhhhhh - it appears that the story doesn't end there though!

Detectives said in the court document that two “spent” .38 caliber shell casings were recovered from the property. Other items taken by police included: a Remington 870 shotgun; two .38 caliber Smith & Wesson Special Revolvers; a knife; suspected psilocybin mushrooms; LSD sheets and tablets; marijuana seeds; packaging materials; and a vacuum sealer, according to the document.

Pills suspected to be Xanax, a knife sheath and duffel bags were taken from a vehicle apparently used by the two slain men, according to the document.

The woman has not been charged with a crime.

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/drugs-guns-found-in-home-of-tucson-woman-who-shot/article_1e23a3c8-5dcb-5db4-9bff-f3e5295fe5c3.html

So, then, is this young lady dealing in illicit drugs? Not charged with a crime? Does that mean the drugs found don't belong to her? The guys breaking in brought the drugs with them? Hmmmmm . . . Maybe she has just very, very recently started dating the sheriff?

Just as I've begun experimenting on Aaron Logue's circuit, some further research has shown that such circuits using the base-emitter junctions of transistors in that way are not stable in the long run. After about three months of being electrically stressed in a configuration like that, the oxide in the emitter-base junction of the transistor will begin to degrade, and the circuit will begin to be less and less effective at producing randomness. Rob Seward has a variant circuit that tries to compensate for this effect, but the fact is, the manufacturers of 2N3904s and other transistors which are (ab)used in this way can't make any kind of assurance that their components will remain stable in the long term. This kind of makes me a little bit concerned, because there are many commercial hardware RNGs out there (e.g. ChaosKey, OneRNG, and many others) that use transistor junctions in exactly the same way as the Logue circuit, and if this is true, they will all become unreliable when used for extended periods.

I did some further research and found that noise from Zener diodes is another good way to produce randomness, and Zener diodes at least are intended to be biased in that way, so they should be more stable. The big problem is that while the transistor B-E junction circuits need at least 12 volt supplies, the Zener circuits need even higher voltages, because it seems that the 12 volt Zeners are those which produce most noise. The circuit from betrusted.io is of this type, however, it uses a load of really weird surface mount devices. The power supply in particular uses a TPS61158, which annoyingly comes only in a ridiculously tiny WSON package with no exposed leads that is basically impossible to solder by hand. I'm not investing in a heat gun or other specialised equipment just for that...

Fortunately, I did find a few more designs out there, one of which was actually described in a conference paper. The bill of materials there looks like it uses only stuff I can realistically work with given the equipment that I am likely to have. The TPS61040 it calls for is available in SOT23, which is comparable in size to the ATECC508a (SOIC8). Soldering that by hand is possible: I've done it a few times. There are a few more components out there that I couldn't find in the electronics stores we've got here though, like the 1N759 Zeners that it uses, so I had to order those online.

And so at first I tried to go to RS Online, which I've used before to get some components (as well as my first Raspberry Pi) but they didn't have a lot of the key components I needed. So next I tried to go to DigiKey. They had everything I needed, but they wanted something like $16 to ship the stuff internationally. For a bill of materials that isn't much more than that, it's a pain. But then someone from corporate HQ in Denver is coming by to my part of the world to meet with us in a couple weeks so I asked them to ship it to the company address in Denver instead. $4 shipping, not too bad. But then a few hours later they suddenly tell me that they failed to authorise my payment with PayPal. When I asked what the hell was going on their clueless customer service kept giving me cryptic and unhelpful one-sentence replies to all of my questions, so I told them screw you, cancel my order. And I wound up at Mouser. Seems they would ship it all to me for free if I bought $40 or more from them, so I got a few more items to fill it up and now I'm waiting for my order to get here, which it should by around next week.

In the meantime, I tried to build something like the circuit from that above paper, which they call the Lampert circuit (shown on page 8 of that PDF). I was able to get LM358s from my friendly neighbourhood electronics shops, but I substituted a different 12V 0.5W Zener for the 1N759, a 1N5242. I don't have any diodes equivalent to the MBR0530 (D5) so I substituted a 1N4148. I also don't have a TLV3202 comparator (more's the pity I forgot to order it!), so I substituted an LM319. With a laptop power supply brick to feed 19V into the circuit, it seems to actually work. I've tried feeding the random circuit into an Arduino first and it does seem to be generating good random data based on some of the simple statistical tests I've applied. It mostly passes the FIPS tests and ent, but the random data it produced crashed the OPERM5 test from Diehard (this is known to be unstable though). Longer term testing for the design is warranted, but I'll wait until I get the rest of the components before I start soldering anything.

I'll get all the rest of the components within the next few weeks and then we'll see about building the boost converter into the circuit as well, and then I can build a new RNG hat.

Rosa Parks died on this day, in 2005. The impeachment inquiry is currently trying to establish how Donald Trump did it.

https://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-met-rosa-parks-muhammad-ali-photo/