Running shooting thread 2023

Brilliant.

 

It takes a lot to break through with a cover these days. This is incredibly well done.

 

Barricades. Ultra high tech security systems. Metal detectors. Firearms training for facility and staff.

All of this, but never the most obvious and effective solution: keeping guns out of the hands of crazy people.

 

That's a hell of a front.

 

I think most college towns would be/are better served by campus papers than they are the local rag.

And I'll say it, you think the UNC paper does that front if they had decent art? Really? But really a good plan B.

 

Funny though. If you want to find a place with solid security against some crazy shooting the place up, go visit a state legislature, Congress, or a courthouse. The places where people make the gun laws and legal interpretations that don't even attempt to control the crazies with guns, that's where security is tight.

 

This one is ... different.
Husband goes into his wife's hospital room and shoots her, then goes into another room and shoots himself in a murder-suicide. She died a day later.
He was 95, and she was 92.

https://www.wlbt.com/2023/09/05/capitol-police-officers-investigate-incident-baptist-medical-center/

 

New Mexico's governor issued an emergency order banning anyone from carrying guns in Albuquerque for the next 30 days, then tries to explain her reasoning by saying the Constitution — either the First or Second Amendment, and probably others — doesn't matter.
Then she acknowledges that the order is pointless because criminals aren't going to obey it, but still doesn't give a shit.
"Do you really think that criminals are going to hear this message and not carry a gun in Albuquerque for 30 days?"
"Uhhhh ... No. But here's what I do think. It's a pretty resounding message."

She also suggested that concealed carry permit holders, who presumably are law-abiding citizens, "maybe should be" arrested.

Governor bans carrying guns in Albuquerque after 11-year-old killed

 

Good move. Just like Republicans passing unconstitutional laws and then letting the courts fight them out.

 

We saw what happened when discourse turned to, "Let's teach women how not to be raped." Now, it's "Lets teach children how not to be shot.
We see what you're doing there.

 

Eh, this doesn't bother me. Regardless of the letter of the law, I like the spirit of the order.

Have at it. See what happens.

 

The spirit of the order -- that the governor thinks it's OK to take a crowbar to the Constitution and believes no part of it is immune to that approach -- is what's so troubling.