Look man, I’ve got a fair sized gun collection. Everything from vintage, to military surplus to modern to goofy. I’ve shot competitively for 20+ years, I’ve hunted every kind of North American game, I’ve spent hundreds of hours poking .17” holes in silly little paper targets…
The ones we are told are *warriors*, the ones we give roughly half of our general fund to, massively botched this response. It seems apparent that *officer safety* was a contributing factor. LE doesn’t want to do the job that we now want teachers to do?
Possibly too early to comment, but it appears the LE response was extremely swift in Texas… and then they sat around and did almost nothing for 40+ minutes while kids and teachers died. The *professionals* sanctioned, trained, and equipped by the state…
As more details come out about the latest tragedy this week, there are already people saying that we should arm teachers, have more armed security, etc. in our schools. Wtf are these people thinking?
You can ask “why” privately if you want, but it’s not really important here. Clearing rooms is physically exhausting, even without the actual threat of death. Shooting accurately under stress is very hard, even if you practice *a lot*
I’m carrying again everyday now, basically because of the dumb shit Tucker Carlson has been putting out. What a stupid thing, to worry that my kids are at risk of violence because of this trash.
I know it’s a “blame the libs”/hypocrisy strategy, but I’ll be damned if Tucker hasn’t made some very good points about diversity in higher education, among other things. Easy to point out overt prejudice, harder to accept its a problem in something you support.
Let’s call this the “isolated grid failure” incident. Off the top of my head, plenty of other examples from recent history. The Arkema peroxide fire, West fertilizer explosion, Texas City refinery explosion...
I’m amazed by how many folks are like “they called us preppers crazy” in light of the massive infrastructure crisis in Texas. What a stupid, anti-intellectual premise. For all the great things about Texas, there is a long history of regulatory neglect.
I just read a report that estimated uncapped, abandoned oil wells in the US produce 10-15x the greenhouse gas annually than all the consumer vehicles in the country. Let that sink in for a bit.