It's not the guns.

[TX-Beau]

The point of the story is that there was a gun brought into a public school that was not properly managed and could have gotten into the hands of a child.

What-about-ism fails to appreciate the gravity of the situation.

Fucker, beat me to it - and you were nicer.

 

[KaraBulut]

Fucker, beat me to it - and you were nicer.

I rarely interject in these sidebar discussions, but this is not the first time that a gun has been left in a school bathroom. So far, we've been lucky.


February, 2020:

Police: Whitney HS vice principal left gun unattended in bathroom

25 News obtained a police report Tuesday that was filed in August 2019 after the Whitney High School vice principal left her gun unattended in a restroom on campus.

www.kxxv.com

February, 2023:

Texas superintendent resigns after student finds his gun in school bathroom

The incident comes as lawmakers debate how to make schools safer after the Uvalde massacre and favor measures like arming more educators.

www.texastribune.org

Texas 3rd-grader finds superintendent’s gun in school bathroom, parents voice concerns

Parents in Rising Star, Texas, say they weren’t notified until weeks after a third-grader found a gun – belonging to the superintendent – in a school bathroom.

thehill.com

March, 2023:

After leaving a gun unattended in school restroom, Granbury teacher is put on leave

Many state leaders called for more armed staff in Texas schools following the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Several proposed bills this...

www.dallasnews.com

Everyone- left, right and center- should be asking why the hole known as school shootings keeps getting deeper and deeper with every legislative non-solution.

 

[TX-Beau]

Perhaps they wre just leaving them for the next good guy to come along.

 

[KaraBulut]

When Senators get their facts from Fox News...

Sen Kennedy (R-LA) was a unable to process the information about his own state's gun violence stats. In 2022, New Orleans had 482 shootings and 280 murders- a rate of 70 homicides per 100,000 residents. Chicago had 695 murders and 2,832 shootings - a rate of 26 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2022.

However, if he had watched the local Fox affiliate, he would have known that New Orleans has been labeled "the murder capital of the US". by September of 2022... before a killing spree in the last quarter of 2022 sent the murder and shooting stats even higher.

New Orleans tops the nation for homicides per capita

With 52 homicides per 100,000 people, New Orleans has surpassed St. Louis (45 per 100,000) for the top homicide rate in the country.

www.fox8live.com

 

[smokeshadow]

 

[rareboy]

When Senators get their facts from Fox News...

Sen Kennedy (R-LA) was a unable to process the information about his own state's gun violence stats. In 2022, New Orleans had 482 shootings and 280 murders- a rate of 70 homicides per 100,000 residents. Chicago had 695 murders and 2,832 shootings - a rate of 26 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2022.

However, if he had watched the local Fox affiliate, he would have known that New Orleans has been labeled "the murder capital of the US". by September of 2022... before a killing spree in the last quarter of 2022 sent the murder and shooting stats even higher.

New Orleans tops the nation for homicides per capita

With 52 homicides per 100,000 people, New Orleans has surpassed St. Louis (45 per 100,000) for the top homicide rate in the country.

www.fox8live.com

God he is a pathetic piece of business.

 

[KaraBulut]

God he is a pathetic piece of business.

I'd encourage you to read the comments on the YouTube video. It is a great example of how different tribes read the exchange between Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and Dr Megan Rainey MD MPH FACEP.

Sen Kennedy is very similar to Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. Kennedy is a very intelligent, very well-educated, competent attorney who was educated at Emory, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was the editor of the law review at his alma mater, the University of Virginia. He is also a crafty politician who demagogues when the cameras are on. He is also a former law professor who conducts an oral bar exam during judicial confirmations to assess whether the candidate knows the law and whether the candidate will admit that they don't remember esoteric legal doctrine they learned decades earlier in law school.

What Kennedy was doing in this hearing is using a witness to get his own facts into the Congressional Record. This is particularly dangerous because while a witness is under oath, a Senator is not under oath, therefore a Senator can read anything or say anything without any assurance of veracity or fact-checking. He does this quite often:

Dr Rainey is also playing her own game. She's billing herself as an emergency physician (which she is). She's also an Associate Dean at the medical school at Brown University. She's a well-known researcher and expert on public health. She's also smart as a whip. She's also using a witness tactic that is very effective: answer the question you want, not the question you've been given. It's also no coincidence that she launched a salvo mentioning Mississippi's gun stats (Kennedy was born in Mississippi) and Louisiana's ranking in gun violence (the state Kennedy represents in Congress).

Incidentally, as Kennedy has grown in power and has moved from being a moderate Democrat to being a conservative-leaning Republican, his corn-pone Georgia accent has gotten as thick as molasses on a January morning. I'm pretty sure he didn't use that Foghorn Leghorn accent when he was at Oxford.

 

[rareboy]

I think that is all part of what I find pathetic.

We know what he is doing. And it seems to debase his intellectual authority and standing when he turns every hearing into a broad, scenery chewing performance piece.

He may see himself as one of the legendary folksy characters dispensing wisdom...what I also see is a cunning and cynical way of misleading and lying.

 

[TX-Beau]

Police officers were responding Wednesday to a "confirmed active shooter" in a building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas...

MSN

www.msn.com

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Four people are dead and three others are injured, including two police officers, after a series of shootings in Austin Tuesday. Another two people were killed in Bexar County...

MSN

www.msn.com

I wonder how many Christmas cards with gun-wielding Troglodyte politicians and their spawn we'll see this year?

Merry fucking Christmas.

 

[TX-Beau]

...In a statement, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state would “impose the full weight of law on this criminal for his despicable crimes. Texans grieve for the loved ones of the six Texans who were murdered by a hardened criminal who must never see the light of day again,” Abbott said in the statement...

MSN

www.msn.com

How very smug and how very righteous you smug fucking hypocritical asswipe. Let's see how fast the evidence disappears this time.

 

[fredroy]

Suspect in custody over shooting spree that may spanned two cities

The suspect has been named as Shane James, 34. He was booked in Travis County Jail in the early hours of Wednesday on four counts of capital murder.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Looks like the folks in SA were killed first. The guy def went nuts.

As for Abbott, what he says doesn't matter.

 

[rareboy]

I would note that it is the anniversary of the shooting of women in Quebec at l'ecole polytechnique in Quebec.

An event that shook Canadians out of their torpor about mass shooting events.

École Polytechnique massacre - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[gsdx]

MSN

www.msn.com

MSN

www.msn.com

Meanwhile, in Canada, we are remembering and mourning the 14 young ladies who were shot and killed in the École Polytechnique massacre 34 years ago today.

We will never forget.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[TX-Beau]

Suspect in custody over shooting spree that may spanned two cities

The suspect has been named as Shane James, 34. He was booked in Travis County Jail in the early hours of Wednesday on four counts of capital murder.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Looks like the folks in SA were killed first. The guy def went nuts.

As for Abbott, what he says doesn't matter.

Unfortunately, it does, he'll be the one ordering the coverup. Again.

 

[KaraBulut]

Meanwhile, in Canada, we are remembering and mourning the 14 young ladies who were shot and killed in the École Polytechnique massacre 34 years ago today.

We will never forget.

Your southern neighbors consider 14 to be amateur territory.

This is American exceptionalism:


And 2023 still isn't done.

Suspect in custody over shooting spree that may spanned two cities

The suspect has been named as Shane James, 34. He was booked in Travis County Jail in the early hours of Wednesday on four counts of capital murder.

www.dailymail.co.uk

According to the media reports in Texas, the Texas shooter had a escalating history of mental illness but had been released from custody. He had removed his ankle monitor after a previous event in 2022. In Texas, until 2023, it was not a crime to remove an ankle monitor, so he could not be taken into custody for violating the terms of his release. Hours after a mental health call to his parent's home, where the officers could not talk the suspect into leaving his bedroom and they could not arrest him for removing his ankle monitor, the suspect killed his parents and started his killing spree.

What we know about Shane James Jr., suspect in Central Texas shootings

We're learning more about the suspect in yesterday's slew of shootings, with the Bexar County Sheriff's Office discussing past interactions with the suspect...

cbsaustin.com

How is it that someone who a history of mental illness, who had been previously charged with assault, who had removed his ankle bracelet and gone on the lam was not taken into custody? The police had been called because he was having a mental health crisis this week but the suspect was not taken into involuntary mental health confinement? How is it that someone with this level of mental illness was allowed to have a gun?


So, one side says "It's the guns". The other side says, "It's mental health." It's both. But nobody does anything about either problem and the numbers keep increasing?

 

[rareboy]

The NRA and gun industry loves mentally ill people committing mass murder with weapons....it drives more people to buy more weapons.

That is why no one does anything about it.

 

[gsdx]

Less than a week after the massacre in Montreal which took the lives of the 14 female students (we still refer to targeted attack against females as a massacre and not a shooting), a massive movement for gun control had begun. In 1992, Bill C-17 had been passed, followed by Bill C-68 (a.k.a. The Firearms Bill) in 1995. The 2 bills caused radical changes in gun control legislation.

Among the changes were: "requirements on the training of gun owners, screening of firearm applicants, 28-day waiting period on new applicants, rules concerning gun and ammunition storage, the registration of all firearms, magazine capacity restrictions for centre-fire semi automatics, and firearm restrictions and prohibitions."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_Polytechnique_massacre

 

[LilBit]

Less than a week after the massacre in Montreal which took the lives of the 14 female students (we still refer to targeted attack against females as a massacre and not a shooting), a massive movement for gun control had begun. In 1992, Bill C-17 had been passed, followed by Bill C-68 (a.k.a. The Firearms Bill) in 1995. The 2 bills caused radical changes in gun control legislation.

Among the changes were: "requirements on the training of gun owners, screening of firearm applicants, 28-day waiting period on new applicants, rules concerning gun and ammunition storage, the registration of all firearms, magazine capacity restrictions for centre-fire semi automatics, and firearm restrictions and prohibitions."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_Polytechnique_massacre

Well, that sure sounds like fascism to me! /s

 

[KaraBulut]

Well, that sure sounds like fascism to me! /s

Absolutely! These fascistic requirements ... like driving tests... that impede our basic rights!