Running Shooting Thread 2024

[TigerVols]

I had a 15-year-old dumbass tell me yesterday that the Georgia shooting was entirely the fault of the school, the mother, and the other students. He didn't just leave out the person who pulled the trigger and the person who supplied him with the gun; the kid flat out said it really wasn't their fault.
Yeah.
That's why I'm done at the end of the year, and if all goes well, I start taking sick days and will be done at Halloween.

So what happens to the kids in your classes if you quiet quit next month?

 

[dixiehack]

So what happens to the kids in your classes if you quiet quit next month?

They don't shoot him in the line of duty?

 

[Driftwood]

So what happens to the kids in your classes if you quiet quit next month?

System hires an interim for the rest of the year.
Or not. I have no more forks left to give.
Since the start of the year, my blood pressure has been on the rise. Friday before school even started, it was 152/104.

The ball is entirely in my court. If the system wants to work with me, I can be a help and be available to guide a new person into the job. If the system wants to play hard ball, I am in a position to drop my keys on somebody's desk as I walk out in the middle of the day and say, "Uhh, I'll need class coverage for the rest of the year."

 

[Driftwood]

- Middle-age guy coming to grips quandary -
I was just at Academy Sports. Decided to walk down the gun aisle just to see what they had.
The sales guy (who has checked me out before) speaking to a woman younger than me and a boy: "It's funny. By state law, at 18 he can own a handgun, but he can't purchase it or the ammo."
Woman: "Yeah, it's his birthday present."
Me, thinking to myself but wanting to scream: "What the fork ARE YOU THINKING?"

Here's the problem. I can't cast the first nor the 50th stone. I was probably 16 when my dad bought me a .357. That was also four decades ago and not the world we live in today. I actually took it hunting and not to militia practice.
I wouldn't call what's running through my head a moral dilemma, but it certainly creates moral confusion.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

No. I have too much respect for hurricanes. Load them all into a DC 8 and fly them into the next volcano.

OK, Xenu!

 

[HanSenSE]

Yeah, let's arm teachers. What could possibly happen?

 

[I Should Coco]

Having known quite a few teachers, the ones they really would like to shoot are the parents.

 

[dixiehack]

Maybe we could arm a few librarians and let ourselves read in peace without the book burning Karens pounding on the door.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Sexy librarian with a gun? Sign me up.

 

[HanSenSE]

Having known quite a few teachers, the ones they really would like to shoot are the parents.

Those teachers are costing their kids scholarships.

 

[DanOregon]

Well, this is awkward. County Sheriff fatally shoots judge in argument in chambers.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/us/kentucky-judge-shot-chambers/index.html

 

[dixiehack]

Well, this is awkward. County Sheriff fatally shoots judge in argument in chambers.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/us/kentucky-judge-shot-chambers/index.html

I never got around finishing Justified, so I suppose it's possible they got around to this plot line in later seasons. But holy shirt. Eastern Kentucky somehow always finds a way to stun me.