Running Shooting Thread 2024

Your anger should be focused on the local sheriff, not the FBI. That’s who interviewed the boy and his dad and then…nothing.

 

Even if it didn't "solve" the problem, it'd be a damn good start. How can people not see this?

Oh, right. They do. They just want their guns, no matter what.

 

My thought is...It doesn't take much to make a MAGAT...

 

Fixed it for you.

 

The death of an injured survivor of the Amish schoolhouse shooting in 2006 occurred the day before the Georgia mass shooting.

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Innocent until proven guilty works 99.99 percent of the time. I'd rather America not become a police state just because it would have stopped this one rare instance. I especially am aware of my rights under the Constitution for illegal search and seizure, and how I'm protected from arrest without evidence.

What were you expecting law forcement to do in that situation? They don't have clear evidence, only anonymous sources. They can't get a judge to issue a search or an arrest warrant on that basis. Fourth Amendment and all that. Unless the father was a felon, he's allowed to have guns covering every square inch of his home, even if the responding officers could plainly see them. And even if the deputies had determined the kid was a danger based on his responses, the district attorney wouldn't touch that with a 12-foot pole because there's no clear and convincing argument to be made.

I'm certain every law enforcement officer in the country will tell you how many "suspicious" cases they check all the time that never amount to anything. The sheriff in my county probably has a list of more than 100 "people of interest" on file. I know the newspaper publishes a list of convicted sexual offenders every year, and it's between 50-75.

You can't post a cop outside every suspected nutcase's house 24 hours a day. It's impractical.

This is a mental health issue, not a police issue. The kid was failed by many people, particularly his father. That's where the blame lies.

 

I graduated from high school in 1970. Open campus. Great place. We were 4 blocks from the beach. Some of us went to the beach during lunch and came back to class with telltale wet jeans between the waist and thighs. About 30 years later, I was saddened to see a fence around the entire campus and one gate available to enter. The first thing I noticed about my new city is that there are no fences around the campus. There are some that have grass berms that separate the buildings from the street, some tall enough so you can't even see the buildings, but no fences. Geez, I hope they never have to fence them in/out.

 

On one trip to Homestead for the NASCAR Championship weekend, I took one day to drive up to Boca Raton and visit my old haunts on a Saturday. My elementary school now had a big chainlink fence around it but the entrance was open. So I drove in, parked, walked around the school and peered in some windows, imagined a game of kickball on the blacktop and got back in the car.

Lo and behold, the fence was locked when I tried to leave. Trying to think of how not to spend the rest of the weekend there, I wound up calling the Boca Raton police dispatcher (not on 911) to ask if they could send a patrolman out. Turned out he had to call the school principal, who was kind enough to not only unlock the fence but wanted to hear stories about what it was like when that school was new in 1968.

Apparently I've always been a scofflaw!

The biggest changes to my high schools in California are the addition of huge solar panels over the parking lots. The buildings look about the same, only 50 years older, and you can park along the street and walk around the buildings if you want. Gwen and I got there on a school day and went up to the office. We were not allowed inside the school, even with an escort, because of safety concerns -- smart move considering two senior citizen graduates were planning a hostile takeover -- so we took a glance down the halls, glad we weren't 14 again, and left.

 

There seems to be some speculation that the kid was transgender (even though he isn’t).

The people who don’t want this to be about guns want it to be able transgender people, even though transgender people don’t commit mass shootings (ok, maybe the one in Nashville but that’s it). It’s not a real issue.

 

If it’s inevitable, why not lie back on the gurney and enjoy it?

Joppatowne student fatally shot classmate in school bathroom

 

Just in the past 4 years, my high school is almost completely rebuilt. We had a horrible time having a 50-year reunion, because it was 2020, the Covid year. We booked a top-floor banquet room at a hotel across the street which overlooked the campus. However, we had to cancel it that year. We should have canceled in 2021, too, but one of the organizers insisted we have it and it was a disaster. Only about 45 people showed up when we should have had between 150 and 200. And, for example, the views from the banquet room were a giant mound of dirt where the administration office used to be, or a vacant area that used to be the English building. The quad, a great gathering place, was gone.

Where I live now, we have the solar panels over the parking lots, too. That is a great idea. I hope they work.

 

This statement is completely false.