Guard Dog

Gromnir you mistake the target of my outrage on this one. Yes, I beat the drums hard on the specter of what follows gun control. Sometimes so hard the drumstick breaks. Prohibition and confiscation is far from imminent but also far from impossible at some point far down the line. One of the best ways to avoid ever going there is to fight like a mad mongoose every step of the way. But, as you said, the outrage here has nothing to do with the gun control debate. You bring up the point the illogical application of zero tolerance. No argument here. But I'm more outraged by the root cause of it. This insane politically driven groupthink that is now threatening this kids future. There is no doubt in my mind the each and every individual teacher/school administrator who will review this case and pass whatever punishment they are going to hand him thinks that it is stupid to punish him over this. But they are going to do it anyway because not one of them will argue against it. The fact it's gone this far is shocking. Seeing someone who has done nothing other than make an offhand comment about a math symbol sacrificed in the name of... hell I don't even know what you'd call this... should just sicken everyone. This isn't even about violating rights. It's about doing something everyone knows is wrong and unjust, but still doing it anyway. It's some kind of collective madness going on not just in schools and taken to this extreme turns the whole notion into something else. It's like PC is some angry volcano god that demands society throw someone in the volcano every week. So everyone does it but each and every one KNOWS there is no angry volcano god even as they throw someone in.

We've always had that. This bastard: He is 100% responsible. Not the AR-15. Not Deputy Peterson. Not the BSO for not following up on tips and complaints. Not the FBI for the inability to locate a person posting online using their own name. Not Donald Trump, not the NRA, not the gun store, not Rick Scott, nobody is to blame except this bastard whose name I will not dignify by typing. Although you'd never know it watching the news.

HA! Good Fun! ps @ gd: is sad/funny to do searches for little kids who were suspended or expelled for making the finger-gun gesture at a school. is not a singular oddity. This poor kid didn't even do that much. He just commented the radix a symbol used in math for some 700 years no is not more looked like a pistol. I guess we'll ban square roots and radicals from class now. It will make math a little easier for the kids. It will be problematic for the future advances in science and engineering though. At least for American students. If someone mentions the + looks like a rifle cross hair maybe we can get addition banned too.

Concerning Deputy Peterson, whatever opinion you have of what he did or did not do let me pose a question. If he were a fireman and the building was burning with kids trapped on the 2nd floor and he waited outside with a fire hose while they burned, would that change your opinion? While he waited outside holding a firearm, wearing body armor, and with years of training, two unarmed teachers and at least one student who had none of those advantages sacrificed their own lives protecting others. It's worth remembering that.

And our national, full body convulsion insanity fit continues unabated: https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/23/a-high-school-student-faces-expulsion-fo

I don't think being the hero is the motivation. I think it would be more about doing what must be done.

Malc, if YOU were there, pistol in hand, would you have gone in? I think I would have. I hope I would have. If I could trade my life right now and bring those 17 kids and teachers back I'd do it without hesitation. I think a lot of people would.

One of the things I absolutely HATE about the police in this country is the pseudo-military trappings they have adopted over the years. In both uniform, ceremony, and action. The average cop is not fit to stand in the shadow of the average Marine, soldier, sailor, or airman. In the military the accomplishment of the mission is foremost. Even over the lives of the people doing it. In the military you are always ready, always on duty (so to speak). You are a Marine, Soldier, etc 24x7. The police are doing a job on a shift that ends. Their focus is going home at the shift end. That isn't a criticism, it's just how it is.

So the government says give up your arms, we will protect you... I'd like this twice if I could

Yeah I've been wondering about that. In Florida there is a department in every county Sheriff for school resource. Basically a uniformed deputy assigned to every school. The job is a mix of law enforcement and community relations but it's been a successful program. I wondered where that deputy was. Apparently he was outside and did not go in. Cowardice is an ugly word and I hate to throw it around. But is certainly sounds like it's appropriate: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-shooting-sro-20180222-story.html The whole thing about "the good guy with the gun" only works when the good guy is there and has the guts to do what must be done.

A Mafia Godfather, accompanied by his attorney, walks into a room to meet with his former accountant. The Godfather asks the accountant: “Where is the 3 million bucks you embezzled from me?” The accountant does not answer. The Godfather asks again, “Where is the 3 million bucks you embezzled from me?” The attorney interrupts, “Sir, the man is a deaf mute and cannot understand you, but I can interpret for you.” The Godfather says, “Well ask him where my damn money is!” The attorney, using sign language, asks the accountant where the 3 million dollars is. The accountant signs back, “I don’t know what you are talking about.” The attorney interprets to the Godfather, “He doesn’t know what you are talking about.” The Godfather pulls out a 9 millimeter pistol, puts it to the temple of the accountant, **** the trigger and says “Ask him again where my damn money is!” The attorney signs to the accountant, “He wants to know where it is!” The accountant signs back, “OK! OK! OK! The money is hidden in a brown suitcase behind the shed in my backyard!” The Godfather says, “Well….what did he say?” The attorney interprets to the Godfather, “He says…go to hell…that you don’t have the guts to pull the trigger.”

,,,,,, http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article201589004.html

Is it better than your last position at least? And it HAS to be better than the big M steakhouse.

Ben f it wasn't for bad luck you'd have none at all! No sooner do you get your license this happens: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/emissions-violations-have-german-cities-facing-driving-bans-a-1194269.html

The President is suggesting gratuitous violence and such in movies, TV, & Video Games play a big role in mass shootings. He is suggesting a "rating system" on these forms of entertainment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-maybe-they-have-to-put-a-rating-system-on-movies/ Rating system huh? Hmm.... should we tell him or just let him keep talking?

This might help with the male truancy problem!

An amateur astronomer in Argentina captures the first images of a supernova beginning: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/amateur-astronomer-captures-supernovas-first-light/ One thing you have to love about astronomy is it's accessibility to hobbyists. A great many discoveries are made by non-professionals.

Great night last night. Big Air was amazing as always. US Women defeated Canada for hockey gold in and absolutely epic finish. They probably could have beaten the US Men's team last night.

Good luck with the job. And don't be a stranger. You should hang out with us here more!

You'll all be relived to hear all of my firearms are still safely locked up in the gun safe. They didn't escape and harm anyone all by themselves. Because clearly inanimate objects are the threat right? You'd certainly think so watching the news these days.

From what I've seen that might be what you and some other libertarians are afraid of, but it doesn't seem to be much of a problem for other Americans. Right. Just remember who was behind the first school mass shooting... and a few more since:

Calling it "people control" is WORSE! That is exactly what we are afraid of. If our history has shown anything it's the United States government is not an institution you want to live at the complete mercy of.

If you go fishing for logic in the halls of government you're going to have an empty net.

I enjoyed reading Clarence Thomas's impassioned dissent at the SCOTUS decision not to intervene in the suit involving California's waiting period. There is a link in the article. It's a long read but worth it: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clarence-thomas-rips-high-courts-decision-not-to-hear-case-challenging-california-gun-law-second-amendment-is-disfavored-right/article/2649503 However, a 10 day waiting period does not seem like that big a deal to me. If you want to avoid it go buy your firearm in Nevada. You have to choose your battles. This isn't so onerous as to be worth fighting over.

The Great Blue Spot on Neptune has disappeared. The storm that has been raging across that planet's southern hemisphere since it was first photographed by Hubble some 20 years ago has petered out. And it looks like the big red storm on Jupiter is doing the same. Why the climates on these two planets is changing is anyone's guess. But I'm sure CNN will blame the Republicans and Al Gore will blame freedom and Capitalism! http://bgr.com/2018/02/16/neptune-storm-vanish-weather-solar-system/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/921697/jupiter-great-red-spot-pictures-nasa-space-storm