Comments on: Jurisdiction

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 03:20:26 +0000

That building looked like a central hall with classrooms on both sides and probably lined with lockers. You should probably be able to locate the stairwells from outside. The primary defensive positions would be in doorways behind lockers. All doors will open out, so you can’t use the door as a shield when you enter.

Fire high initially to distract without endangering anyone else and set yourself for a real shot. It’s not a great plan, but it’s a plan. If the hall is filled with panicked kids you have no shot.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:41:24 +0000

Yeah, but that's a serious lack of training issue! You don't run straight at an armed assailant! Jeez! First rule is ALWAYS "Keep yourself safe first!" You're no use to anyone dead. I used to train security/police personnel as a Project Griffin (anti-terrorism) Co-originator/Trainer. And PG is used in the US for over a decade now! But I'm guessing they stopped the training years ago otherwise those idiots would have known what to do other than piss their pants! Typical! "Give em a badge & a gun! That's all they need!" USA still thinks it's the good ol' "Wild West"! Watch too many Ronny Raygun & John Wayne reruns!

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:21:45 +0000

Around 50% of LEO’s who run towards gunfire end up getting shot, so yeah, they’re right to be afraid that they might be shot, but dammit, that’s their job, to run towards gunfire and protect children and the general public. What a waste of space these deputies turned out to be.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:53:11 +0000

Hmm! Sorry about that... try again! Parkland Student Activists Talk Gun Control OK. That's working. :) The Natives ARE getting restless in the USA BTW. At least 2 Native American's are running for Congress. First time ever apparently. Should be interesting! ;) :D Two women are vying to be the first Native American congresswomen I hope they succeed!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:11:16 +0000

I’m beginning to suspect that those deputies were trained in the paramount purpose of “officer safety” and were more concerned with defense than offense. It looks like they were “containing the situation” while waiting for a heavy weapons/SWAT/Tac unit to make the assault. The school resource deputy was a major problem because he was the one officer who definitely knew the layout inside the building.

The LEOs were outgunned and their soft body armor was not going to be effective against an AR-15, but kids were dying, so fuck it – you go in and do what you can. You go towards the sound of gun fire.

Aside: You Ellen link doesn’t work.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:59:10 +0000

I don’t know if you’ve seen this series of interviews of some of the Parkland surviving student’s turned activists on Ellen show (online)… If not, you really should! These kids seriously impressed the hell out of me! And that’s not easy to do (as you know). 😉 😆

Whatever is is wrong in Florida, you can be proud that at least one school has educated the student’s well! That’s obvious. 😀

These are future Politicians and/or leaders right here!

Parkland Student Activists Talk Gun Control

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:18:36 +0000

Seems things are hotting up for the Broward County Sheriff's office! Florida school shooting: Broward sheriff probes claim that more deputies did not immediately enter school So, they only hire cowards now? Or what? Disgusting!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:39:39 +0000

The NRA is taking a hit from the kids. There is no effective way of fighting back against articulate teenagers who have survived their first fire-fight. Those kids now accept that they are going to die, while most teenagers leave high school believing they are immortal. They have survived the worst and are going to do something about it.

None of the techniques that politicians use on adults work on kids. Kids know bullshit when they hear it and they want action not excuses. David Hogg’s father is retired FBI and David had to prepare for a debate on gun control. He didn’t know in advance whether he would be arguing for or against the question, so he had to cover both sides. That’s why he can cite numbers. I assume his Dad got him him some of the numbers that aren’t on the ‘Net.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:42:15 +0000

Yep! Agree with all of that. And two biggies have pulled away from the NRA, along with others: "Delta and United Airlines – two of the three largest US-based airlines – said they would no longer offer discounted fares to NRA members to attend annual meetings. Both airlines asked the NRA to remove any references to their companies from its website." Also: Chubb, Allied, North American Van Lines, Wyndham, Best Western hotel groups; and MetLife have pulled their discounted home and car insurance to NRA members. Dana Loesh went full on apeshit & lost it! She actually attacked the companies boycotting the NRA! NRA furious as two of world’s largest airlines join boycott Marco Rubio’s meltdown is the moment kids outgunned the NRA It's been a great weekend in the USA mate!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 02:58:57 +0000

The Florida Teachers want their retirement system to check to see if their pension fund has any stock in corporations that make guns, and to divest if the stock is found. The Students have sent out a call to avoid Florida for spring break if the legislature won’t pass gun restrictions. The kids are alright – go for the money, and vote out politicians who won’t listen. They have figured it out.

The NRA is going to become a societal outcast.

Yes, bloody conservatives make a fetish object of guns. They are tools, not totems.