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| We revamped Airport security after 9-11. We could easily do the same in schools. |
Is that foolproof? Well probably not. Obviously there are other exits. Someone could leave a door propped open, someone could wait and see if someone leaves through a locked door. A Maintenance person who would have their own key might lose a key or what not. But having two points of entry, one with a locked lobby and the other with a police officer makes it much harder for anyone who isn't supposed to be there to get in. I would argue it was pretty close in terms of keeping outside people from getting into the school.
Certainly, the school could install metal detectors to make sure the students themselves are not entering with a gun or weapons. Would it be a hassle? Sure. But going to the airport is a hassle too. But it has become something we just got used to over the years. While most school shootings do not involve a smuggled gun, this scenario does happen and metal detectors could prevent that.
It's sad that we have this argument, which each side demanding that the only solution is the solution that they propose. Democrats will complain that Republicans block "common sense" legislation that wouldn't prevent 99% of gun violence, but they also just blocked consideration for a GOP bill that brought other safety measures intended to make schools safer because it did not address gun control?
I don't recall any of our parents in our city complaining about a police presence or how it was difficult to get into the school if you were not a student. I know some will, but you have to question those motives as well.
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Attacking the constitutional right of Americans to own an assault style rifle intended for killing humans in combat situations.
Looney tunes!!!
Where's your constitutional right to own flame throwers, bazookas, machine guns, surface to air missile launchers, mortars, hand grenades?
Think what ghouls could accomplish in schools, churches, mosques, synagogues, post offices, fast food places, restaurants, libraries, and places of business with all of those!
Will you be reading the following in hell? Or is God too merciful for that?
Greg Abbott Cut Spending for Mental Health
May 28, 2022 at 5:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 119 Comments
“Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ and the state needed to “do a better job with mental health” — yet in April he slashed $211 million from the department that oversees mental health programs,” NBC News reports.
“In addition, Texas ranked last out of all 50 states and the District of Columbia for overall access to mental health care.”
Police Chief Who Waited Had Active Shooter Training
May 28, 2022 at 3:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 160 Comments
“The police chief who officials said decided to wait to confront the gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, completed an active shooter training course in December,” NBC News reports.
Inside McConnell’s Long Effort to Block Gun Control
May 28, 2022 at 3:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 113 Comments
Washington Post:
“The Standard Gravure massacre provided an early glimpse of how McConnell — now the Republican Senate minority leader — would handle mass shootings and their aftermath over the next three decades, consistently working to delay, obstruct or prevent most major gun control legislation from passing Congress.
“McConnell would go on to follow a similar playbook time and time again during his seven terms in Congress,
offering vague promises of action,
often without any specifics,
only to be followed by no action or incremental measures that avoided new gun regulations.
As a Republican leader, he also helped dissuade his conference —
as after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
— from supporting gun legislation and, as majority leader, refused to bring up significant gun control measures for a vote.”
SELL OUT MONSTER TO THE NRA!!!
Four years ago, when — as now — the nation was reeling from the horror of a mass school shooting, a retired Supreme Court justice suggested a radical solution: getting rid of the Second Amendment.
John Paul Stevens issued the call after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February 2018. The attack prompted hundreds of thousands to demand action the next month to end gun violence at the March for Our Lives.
In a March 27, 2018, New York Times op-ed, Stevens praised the protesters and their call for stricter gun control laws. “But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform,” he wrote, about a year before his death at 99. “They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.”
President Gerald Ford nominated him.
Stevens said the amendment was adopted out of concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the states. “Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century,” he wrote.
An elementary school massacre spurred tighter gun control in the U.K.
He called repeal a “simple but dramatic action [that] would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform” and would make schoolchildren safer.
But a 2/3 majority is impossible in the U.S Senate
But the fallout from the last two incidents?
In an indication that Republicans believe the talks could potentially yield an agreement, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, said he had asked Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a close ally, to talk to Mr. Murphy and other Democrats working on a deal.
“I am hopeful that we could come up with a bipartisan solution that’s directly related to the facts of this awful massacre,” Mr. McConnell told CNN. He added, “I’m going to keep in touch with them, and hopefully, we can get an outcome that can actually pass and become law, rather than just scoring points back and forth.”
Mr. Cornyn’s involvement signaled that Mr. McConnell intends to keep close tabs on the discussions, giving him the means to intervene if he deems it necessary to try to squelch a deal he regards as politically dangerous or steer the talks toward something that Republicans could accept.
If he stops the Republicans filibuster, a simple majority vote, they might restore the laws under Clinton with some serious issues.
https://apnews.com/article/death-of-ronald-greene-politics-arrests-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-599fae0d1018e0632554043f4e5b8fd3
This is the same thing I posted for the Arabic newsletter
It's worse than George Floyd
shooting attacks, from Sandy Hook to the Pulse nightclub in Orlando to Parkland to Las Vegas to El Paso to Buffalo last week and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde this week, used AR-15 or AR-15-style assault rifles, which actually were banned in this country between September 13, 1994, and September 13, 2004.
Locked doors won't work
Too long ago, no one cares idiot Alky.
George Who?
Racist Democrats.
The Foundation of the Party and still alive and well today.
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The growing offshore wind industry is often touted as a boon for job creation, but who will do the work?
The U.S. energy secretary and Danish wind developer Orsted say they want American union workers to build offshore wind farms to dot the U.S. coastlines — the building trades workers who could otherwise be left out of a transition to renewable resources.
A majority of onshore wind and solar farms have been built either with non-union workers or without collective bargaining agreements, except for in California where unions are more involved in the industry, according to North America’s Building Trades Unions. Orsted signed a project labor agreement this month with the national union representing 3 million people in the building trades to construct the company’s U.S. offshore wind farms with an American union workforce.
“Our recent experience in the last two decades with onshore wind and solar has been that the majority of those projects are not built with us,” NABTU Secretary-Treasurer Brent Booker said this week. “So this is groundbreaking in setting the standard for an emerging industry here.”
The Biden administration wants to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, generating enough electricity to power more than 10 million homes. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visited the New London State Pier facility last week to see how Orsted, energy provider Eversource and the state of Connecticut are transforming it into a hub for the offshore wind industry.
POS Biden.
This Is his message to the best and the brights college graduates.
"Biden warned the graduates they were entering a “very dark moment in America"
So again, wind energy is not ready
MIDLAND, TEXAS: AUG. 31, 2019. 7 DEAD.
Seth Aaron Ator purchased an AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check, and fired it indiscriminately from his car into passing vehicles and shopping plazas. He also hijacked a mail truck, killing the driver. Ator had been blocked from getting a gun in 2014 after his background check was flagged because a court determined he was mentally ill, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the matter. Private sales, which account for up to 40% of all gun sales according to some estimates, are not subject to a federal background check and private sellers aren’t required to determine if a buyer is eligible to own a gun. Ator was killed by police.
EL PASO, TEXAS: AUG. 3, 2019. 23 DEAD.
Patrick Crusius bought an AK-47-style rifle and 1,000 rounds of hollow-point ammunition online 45 days before he walked into a Walmart store and opened fire, killing 23 people and injuring two dozen others, before confessing that he had been targeting Mexicans, according to prosecutors. A Crusius family lawyer said his mother raised concerns about the purchase in a call to police on June 27. Police said she asked if Crusius, who was 21 at the time, was old enough to buy a gun. Police said she was assured he was and that he’d qualify if he passed a background check. Police said she expressed concern only about his safety and said she’d seen no recent change in his behavior. Crusius posted a racist screed online just before the attack and appeared to target Mexicans. He’s charged with capital murder in Texas and federal hate crimes and firearms offenses.
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PITTSBURGH: OCT. 27, 2018. 11 DEAD.
Robert Gregory Bowers had a carry license and legally owned the Colt AR-15 SP1 and three Glock .357 handguns police said he used to kill worshipers at Tree of Life synagogue. Bowers spent months posting rants against Jews on Gab, a social media site favored by right-wing extremists. He also posted photos of his “glock family.” Just before the attack, he posted a screed against a Jewish organization that resettles refugees, saying: “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” None of the rhetoric appeared to raise red flags. His case is pending. ___
SANTA FE, TEXAS: MAY. 18, 2018. 10 DEAD.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student, used a shotgun and a .38-caliber handgun that his father purchased legally and stored in a closet at their home, authorities said. It wasn’t clear if his father knew he’d taken the guns. Prior to the attack, Pagourtzis posted a photo on social media of a T-shirt with the phrase “Born to Kill” and had writings indicating he planned to attack his high school. A judge sent him to a mental health facility after ruling he was incompetent to stand trial. high school.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA: JUNE 12, 2016. 49 DEAD.
Omar Mateen purchased an AR-15-style rifle, a Sig Sauer MCX, and a handgun from a licensed dealer on separate days about a week before the Pulse nightclub attack. He passed a background check and had a security license that allowed him to be armed while on duty. The FBI investigated Mateen in 2013 and 2014 over co-workers’ concerns that he’d spoken about ties to terrorist groups. Neither inquiry led to charges. Even if he’d been placed on a terrorism watch list, Congress in 2015 rejected attempts to prevent people on the list from purchasing guns. Mateen was killed by police.
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