"Mass Casualty" High School Shooting In Florida...

[Scooter]

Based just on the space assigned, aside from the obvious racial implications, the life of one cop is apparently worth 50 times the life of one high school student.

[Lord Jim]

I think the tweeter is reading too much into that...

That's a copy of the Chicago Sun-Times, and the cop killing in the story took place in Chicago:

A repeat felon with a decades-long rap sheet was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder of a police officer in the fatal shooting of Cmdr. Paul Bauer.

Shomari Legghette, 44, is also charged with aggravated use of a weapon by a felon and drug possession, officials say.

Legghette is accused of shooting Bauer multiple times in a stairwell at about 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Thompson Center.

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said at a news conference that Bauer was “executed.”

“He didn’t turn the other way and let somebody worry about it,” Johnson said of the hero cop.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-po ... e-officer/

If this had been a newspaper from some third city with no local connection to either story, then maybe the guy would have a point, but there's nothing unusual (or racially suspect) about a paper giving bigger play to a local event like this. I'm Sure the SF Comical would have done the same thing.

[Crackpot]

Which makes it all the more bizarre to suggest arming teachers in the classroom. If for whatever reason trained soldiers are not allowed to be armed around other trained soldiers, how does it make sense to suggest that civilian teachers be armed when around children?

That’s just because they don’t want to pay extra for a campus security force. If there is one thing these people like more than owning a gun it’s doing anything to avoid paying more in taxes.

[RayThom]

[Econoline]

Read this: clicky linky for the whole thing.

• The Time I Was Almost A School Shooter
  
  When I was 16 years old, I almost shot up a school. I didn’t. Did someone say something to me to change my mind? Did gun laws keep me from being equipped? Did the law enforcement community catch wind of my plans? What saved people’s lives that fall of ’93? Heroin.

[liberty]

There is a solution, but you guys don’t want it. You want it be Britain or France. The Second Amendment was not written to protect the rights of the mentally ill or the town drunk or the criminal or anyone who could not be considered reliable. It was written to protect the rights of the militia. If only the members of the militia owned an AR 15 there would be no school shootings or they would be very rare. Nothing will ever be perfect. Even Norway had a mass shooting some years ago.

[MajGenl.Meade]

There is no well-regulated militia - an arm of the state liable to be called upon to protect the state (and indeed the purposes of the national government at need).

The closest thing to it today would be the state National Guard. Therefore you advocate restriction of weapons ownership to the National Guard.

Would that be as individuals with arms at home or as an entity with centralized armories?

How is "well-regulated" to be measured and by whom?

[RayThom]

[Scooter]

On the same fucking day:

[Scooter]

[Bicycle Bill]

On the same fucking day:

Of course they've got to do something about it!  Pornography can lead to masturbation, which wastes countless billions of sperm and kills millions of unborn children every year!!
What's ten people there, fifteen kids here, or even fifty people at a concert in Sin City (and in a place with a nickname like that, they probably had it coming anyway!) compared to that many lost lives?
</sarcasm>

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

On the same fucking day:

Now that's just silly...

Everybody knows that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with pornography is a good guy with pornography...

[Big RR]

That's right, we need more porn, not less; we should have porn in our schools and encourage everyone to carry it at all times to prevent those illnesses in the people who misuse it.

[Sue U]

I think it means that, unlike the NRA, the porn industry failed to make sufficient campaign contributions to the Florida GOP.

[Big RR]

But I'm sure it has entertained many a legislator--especially in the strip clubs.

that guy in the photo looks like he spends a lot of time surfing the net for his favorite type of perversions (and if it involves kids he's just doing "research")--just thinking about porn gives him heart palpitations.

[Scooter]

[liberty]

There is no well-regulated militia - an arm of the state liable to be called upon to protect the state (and indeed the purposes of the national government at need).

The closest thing to it today would be the state National Guard. Therefore you advocate restriction of weapons ownership to the National Guard.

Would that be as individuals with arms at home or as an entity with centralized armories?

How is "well-regulated" to be measured and by whom?

You know better than that. Why do you want to insult the National Guard by referring to them as militia? Militiamen are amateur civilians; the National Guards are neither civilians or amateurs. They are not militia . National Guardsmen are part-time professional soldiers and they have proven their professionalism over the last few years.

Since you are having trouble following the idea let me make it simple:

No one could legally buy any gun or ammunition unless they had been approved by a background check and mental evaluation and had and an ID card to prove it. Their names would also be listed in a data base along with identifying information.

[Burning Petard]

Maybe we should leave all this to the professional civilians.

Gee Mr. Liberty, could you tell me when civilian, militia, and people became words that referee to the same group?

snailgate

[Scooter]

There is a solution, but you guys don’t want it. You want it be Britain or France. The Second Amendment was not written to protect the rights of the mentally ill or the town drunk or the criminal or anyone who could not be considered reliable. It was written to protect the rights of the militia. If only the members of the militia owned an AR 15 there would be no school shootings or they would be very rare.

And you would get around DC v. Heller how, exactly?

[liberty]

Maybe we should leave all this to the professional civilians.

Gee Mr. Liberty, could you tell me when civilian, militia, and people became words that referee to the same group?

snailgate

Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights.[1][2][3][4] The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the right belongs to individuals,[5][6] while also ruling that the right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all regulation of either firearms or similar devices.[7] State and local governments are limited to the same extent as the federal government from infringing this right, per the incorporation of the Bill of Rights.



A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Look at the second amendment, militia refers to the people. And the militia has always been civilians not just in our country but the world over. All citizens have a militia responsibility whether you want it or not.

I don ‘t see most of the people here fighting the fascist in a real war unless someone is holding a fun to their head.