OT: American Politics

[hockeylover]

fuck, man. worst article i've ever read.

Later, as the unthinkable toll of the shooting came into focus, some parents texted the teacher: “Thank you for keeping my baby safe.”

“But it’s not just their baby,” the teacher said, sobbing on her front porch. “That’s my baby, too. They are not my students. They are my children.”

Republicans have been accusing teachers of being pedophiles and groomers for months now. Fucking ghouls.

 

[CTheBigPicture]

Haven't been able to make it past the first ten seconds of ten words of any of these videos or articles.

 

[MindzEye]

Front page of the onion earlier today

 

[Tryamw]

Front page of the onion earlier today

Shows partly how many of these incidents they have done that for.. it's f***ing ridiculous..

 

[axlsalinger]

A little more detail on exactly what happened. Says the initial police officers that engaged the shooter were shot (unless they meant "shot at"), then the shooter barricaded himself in a pair of adjoining classrooms.

 

[hockeylover]

I'll wait for the dust to settle but... that's a long ass time and doesn't really fit with every active shooter training session I've ever been given.

 

[hockeylover]

!!?

 

[worm]

!!?

Chicken shit cops

 

[axlsalinger]

It does sound like officers arrived on the scene and decided to wait for the tactical team.

 

[hockeylover]

sounds like pre-columbine strategy for active shooters.

we were told: do not wait for backup, do not wait for ETF, do not set up a perimeter, do not tend to injured parties, go directly towards the sound of the shooting even if you're solo.

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[hockeylover]

It does sound like officers arrived on the scene and decided to wait for the tactical team.

From the article:

Meanwhile, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said the Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.

super weird.

 

[zeke]

 

[hockeylover]

I didn’t expect to click on it and see it was the Heat PA announcer.

 

[mbow30]

Time to politicize the fuck out of this.

 

[mbow30]

the founding fathers had no scruples about amending the constitution. Cut the balls right off the originalist bull. I don’t care what the second amendment says, certainly the founding fathers wouldn’t want the constitution to be the backbone of state sanctioned massacres of kids.

 

[zeke]

Originalist?

They decided "well-regulated" means "unlimited".

There is nothing Originalist about the current interpretation of the 2nd amendment.

It is literally the opposite of originalist.

 

[mbow30]

Originalist?

They decided "well-regulated" means "unlimited".

There is nothing Originalist about the current interpretation of the 2nd amendment.

It is literally the opposite of originalist.

It’s how they self characterize. The irony of Heller is that JPS in dissent also applies an originalist methodology to arrive at the opposite conclusion.

 

[zeke]

The First Congress « Fergus Bordewich: The Imperfect Union

www.fergusbordewich.com

 

[zeke]

What Does the Second Amendment Mean?

The right to resist is not in the Constitution because it is legitimately resorted to only when the constitutional system has broken down completely and given way to unlawful tyranny or no government at all, when the rule of law has been destroyed and the Constitution no longer has any authority...

www.aei.org