Tag: Newton CT
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Defend Yourself from Crazy People
This is blatantly lifted from Second City Cop. No need to correct perfection. – – – – – – – Here’s some brilliant freaking idea coming out of a “police executive” group. Confronting an attacker leads to less casualties: The speed and deadliness of recent high-profile shootings have prompted police departments to recommend fleeing, hiding…
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Bulletproof Whiteboards?
In December, George and his young son were watching the horrific details of the Sandy Hook Elementary School murders on television and when he saw the fear in his son’s eyes, his engineering brain kicked in. He said to his son, “We can fix this. We have to do something.” via TheBlaze.com. Very cool concept.…
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Run, Hide, Fight — Have an Active Shooter Plan
From the Alabama Dept. of Homeland Security. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ESNae7OoyM]
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Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control
The U.K. and Australia: A media frenzy coupled with an emotional campaign by parents of Dunblane resulted in the Firearms Act of 1998, which instituted a nearly complete ban on handguns. Owners of pistols were required to turn them in. The penalty for illegal possession of a pistol is up to 10 years in prison.…
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Armed Guards at Schools… Common
Nationwide, at least 23,000 schools — about one-third of all public schools — already had armed security on staff as of the most recent data, for the 2009-10 school year, and a number of states and districts that do not use them have begun discussing the idea in recent days. via NYTimes.com. NRA proposal not…
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446 School Age Children Shot in Chicago
MSM Silent: In Chicago, there have been 446 school age children shot in leftist utopia run by Rahm Emanuel and that produced Obama, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, etc. 62 school aged children have actually been killed by crazed nuts in Chicago so far this year with almost two weeks to go. So why isn’t this…
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Getting Serious About School Security
Treat like a fire. “Come with me to the library at Columbine High School,” Grossman said. “The teacher in the library at Columbine High School spent her professional lifetime preparing for a fire, and we can all agree if there had been a fire in that library, that teacher would have instinctively, reflexively known what…
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Pearl High School Shooting: Oct. 1, 1997
I am not insane, I am angry. I am a cross dresser. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society, push us and we will push back. … All throughout my life, I was ridiculed, always beaten, always hated. Can you, society, truly blame me for what…
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Newton CT – Day 3
I wrote something short on the Facebook page of an old friend who called for more “gun control.” He wrote back. I wrote this response. I actually live on the “West Side” near [omitted.] My first comment on the Newton matter was to wonder why the events in Newton & Aurora get big news…
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On Newton CT
I wrote this as a comment on the Chicago Tribune story: While our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Newton CT the sad reality is that 18 children and 6 adults killed is what we in Chicago call the “Second and Third Week in July” every year. Where is our national media…