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Arms and Demand 0
I’ve been thinking back over my high school teachers and considering whether I’d have trusted any of them to be packing heat. I suggest you do the same.
Most of them I would not have trusted to pick up a gun. One or two I would have expected to gleefully fire one on any pretext.
The idea that arming teachers will somehow deter violence is profoundly stupid, but we live in a profoundly stupid society dominated by profoundly stupid people.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Don’t let politeness get your goat.
In a message posted Thursday afternoon on its Facebook page, the police department said someone trespassed onto the property of Smiling Hill Farm and Hillside Lumber last weekend and killed a pregnant goat that was in a fenced-in pen.
“The killing of this goat was not an accident,” police said in the post.
Concealed Weapons 0
Heh.
But the weapon, a model of which was used in the Parkland, Florida, massacre, was hastily withdrawn late on Tuesday. . . .
The website for the dinner had been scrubbed of references to the AR-15 as well as a 10/22 Ruger rifle as the door prize. Stevens County Republicans auctioned weapons at their 2016 and 2017 dinners . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes practice.
“I’ve never seen anything like it in my entire career,” said Sunbury police Chief Timothy S. Miller Wednesday. . . .
The range was set up in the kitchen. The target was in a box six to eight feet away, Miller said. Bullets from a .22-caliber rifle went into the wall behind the target, he said.
The United States has become Lord of the Flies brought to life.
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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is child’s play.
Randolph believes the boy may have thought the purple handgun was a toy.
“Failed State” 0
E. J. Dionne is not sanguine.
On gun violence, the United States has become a corrupt failed state.
More at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The call of politeness . . . .
The victim was struck by gunfire and was taken to an area hospital. On Tuesday morning, officials announced that the victim died.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite when you go to the club.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Eden.
Click for the original image.Timeline of a Toady 0
Dick Polman tracks Little Marco’s fealty to the merchants of mechanized death. Here’s how he starts:
We all know what happens after a mass shooting — thoughts ‘n’ prayers, TV footage of traumatized kids, it’s “too soon” to do anything — so this time let’s try something else. Let’s tell the tale through the prism of one hapless politician. Let’s make him a metaphor for our surrender to routine slaughter.
Follow the link for the timeline.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Check out the politeness.
“An individual who spent the night int he hotel was checking out, at which time a firearm fell out of his pocket onto the floor, striking the tile,” said Commander Michael Piggott, Chicago Police Department.
Police say fragments, possibly from the tile, struck three people. They were taken to local hospitals and are expected to be fine.
Ending the Shelling 0
Will Bunch writes of the “NRA’s reign of terror.” A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.