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“The Teacher Is in Custody” 0
A stable genius could not have predicted . . . .
The shooting, which took place around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, led to a frantic lockdown at Dalton High School. One student suffered a minor ankle injury while running down the halls, police said at a press conference.
Via Juanita Jean.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely.
Police say that 3 males were in the desert drinking and playing with guns when one of them was shot.
The wounded person died.
Police believe that the shooting may have been an accident but they are still investigating.
One more time, there is no such thing as an “accidental” shooting.
The only choices are “intentional” and “negligent.”
Delta of Venal 0
Jay Bookman considers the Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor’s (and gubernatorial candidate) threat to deny Delta Airlines an (unneeded) tax break in retribution for Delta’s decision to stop giving NRA members discounts. An excerpt:
For Georgia Republicans, that creates a dilemma. In the hierarchy of lobbying groups at the state capitol, Delta ranks near the top. But at the very top, at the summit, sits the National Rifle Association. Delta is powerful; the NRA is sacrosanct.
Duck and Quiver 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Eric Dietrich muses on America’s love affair with guns. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
What do we fear? We fear abortion (as an essential component to women’s rights), animal rights, any religion besides conservative Christianity, bans on hunting, birth control, carbon footprints, the politics of caring, controlling energy use, controlling mining, discussions of sexism, diversity, economic crashes, education, euthanasia, evolution, flying planes into buildings, gay marriage, gender (and the word “gender”), getting mugged, gun control, home invasions, homosexuality, immigration, not logging, statistically not common sexual behavior, population control (and discussing same), protecting the environment, races other than the white one, restrictions on parenting, running out of gas and oil, science, sex, taking global warming seriously, talk of climate change, talk of social class, talk about the Second Amendment, terrorism, transgendered humans, types of governments besides ours, vaccinations . . . .In fact, we fear discussing gun control so much that Congress has prevented our Centers for Disease Control from conducting any research on gun control. Such willful blindness is not only immoral, it is illegal (trying getting away with willful blindness in a criminal case).
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Surround your children with politeness.
A 4-year-old girl is in critical condition after an accidental shooting in LaGrange, police said.
The handgun used Monday morning was within reach of the child’s 2-year-old and 7-year-old brothers and authorities told Channel 2 Action News they believe one of the siblings fired the shot.
True Believers 0
Meanwhile, Adam Gopnik comments on the latest NRA spin. A snippet:
I’m looking really really hard, and I don’t see any “socialist wave,” but I guess fighting the Cold War (flash! Communism lost!) never gets old.
Link to Gopnik via The Colorado Independent.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The drive for politeness:
The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. while the woman was inside a car, was shown a gun and had shot herself, according to initial police scanner reports.
More guns no doubt would have prevented this.
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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