Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

just thinking out loud.

police are the true "founding fathers" —and coincidentally the collective abusive father figure— of america.

"the founding fathers were some abusive ass parents" by charles mingus (1958)

Documents posted by NYTimes reporter make point even pointier, detailing all the training ignored:

I have spent the past few days researching the training of Uvalde officers, including the tactics they were expected to use to halt school shooters.

The documents are jarring. Here’s a thread of our findings so far.

1/9

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) May 28, 2022

and you just know that the response to all this will include many people solemnly stating that the best solution will be "more training"

what is needed is for a non-partisan board in TX to conduct a study on the important issue of mass shootings, to try to identify what we can do that is not difficult

Documents posted by NYTimes reporter make point even pointier, detailing all the training ignored:

― dow, Saturday, May 28, 2022 12:44 PM

it really does get worse the further you read.

retail employees look at someone the wrong way and that's enough to get them canned. these people disobeyed direct training and let children die.

the level of accountability that's lacking is startling.

i know & accept acab but in terms of the job i also think abt other instances where law enforcement did act & put themselves in harms way to protect victims & for them to see other law enforcement officers in another jurisdiction ~collectively~ just completely lay down on the job & not even achieve any level of basic protection

I've got a good friend who worked in the police force to a pretty high level and he is one of the harshest critics of policing I've ever known - in the UK, but ACAB applies everywhere afaict.

The @NRA is currently promoting the specific gun model used to murder 19 kids and 2 teachers at Uvalde as part of a "banned guns giveaway," along with 1,000 rounds of ammo. https://t.co/ykBK7EtNuH pic.twitter.com/MWWPZP6iCM

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) May 27, 2022

A lot of 'how could he afford it' false flag right-wingers suddenly unfamiliar with the concept of credit cards and convinced that AR-15s cost $10k.

Small town neighbors getting together, glad to see each other, missing the others, description of the shooter's grandmother, in the hospital now, shooter was one of the neighborhood kids too: not a harrowing listen, exactly, but in the twilight (about 4 minutes): https://www.npr.org/2022/05/28/1101955123/in-uvalde-tragedy-brings-a-community-together

Made me feel a little better, ultimately, or wouldn't have mentioned it at this point

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sheriff-husband-suspected-killings-woman-3-kids-rcna31026?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR2_a7tjLg5t8uVv4_FFjfZBSsZt12pJYmiEeGx1BHMBLXWWUtQvcyLNkbM

Hell, I didn’t even make the paper
‘Cause I only killed one man

—Steve Earle, 1990

Missing context makes for a weird detail in that one:

The person who alerted authorities was outside the home when deputies arrived and was not shot

BREAKING: Uvalde residents boo Texas Governor Greg Abbott as he pays his respects at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde Texas | @TPUSA pic.twitter.com/4JSipaKOvv

— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) May 29, 2022

otm. the least he deserves

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/americas/canada-handgun-sales-cap/index.html

And now this

https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-police-school-district-longer-cooperating-texas-probe/story?id=85093405

I can't imagine that will go well for them

Huh, who'd have ever guessed that there might be implications after spending years making sure there is absolutely no punishment whatsoever for not cooperating with any sort of government investigation, probe or inquiry.

At the NRA Convention someone told us that hammers are used to kill more people than guns. So we looked up the stats in front of them. pic.twitter.com/ju5R8Pqbvk

— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) May 31, 2022

later that guy (probably one of his friends) will find where that "stat" came from that conclusively showed he was wrong, and they will attack whoever or whatever institution did the study or collected the data. it won't be hard for them to find that it is somehow connected to a university or department or professor, or was possibly funded by george soros, or both.

but it is temporarily satisfying and even addictive to confront complete fools like that guy and just tell them to their face how wrong they are. but it also doesn't change anything at all, ever. it is completely ineffective today

My colleagues' eyebrows went up like the curtain at the Met when a month ago during a teaching presentation I insisted, after teaching rhetoric for years, that we gotta stop teaching students as if facts mattered.

otm and completely evident in the way that guy neverthelesses back to the 2nd amendment being "important to him" on a personal level

Really hoping Channel 5 made it out to GunCon

Clinic shooting in Tulsa

4 dead as of now (including suspect).

https://katu.com/news/nation-world/police-say-multiple-injuries-in-hospital-shooting-scene-described-as-catastrophic-warren-clinic-tulsa-police-department-suspect-down-shots-fired-shooting-searching-floor-by-floor

Yet another door problem

Yet another door problem

same as it ever was

Jesus the subway shooting was a month and a half ago
Seems like forever ago already

Police have said a gunman who killed three employees and a patient at an Oklahoma hospital was targeting the surgeon who performed his back surgery.

He had purchased a semi-automatic AR15-style rifle just hours before the shooting, and was also armed with a handgun, police said.

Starting to see a pattern emerging here

look nothing you’re proposing would have stopped this okay trust me

When it comes to gun laws, think of the possible innocent victims. My latest:https://t.co/AH6yCSUcsM

— Stan Kelly (@KartoonistKelly) June 2, 2022

What the fuck was the grudge about his back surgery if the cunt was able to tote an ar-15

Not much to tote - an AR weighs less than a bichon frise.

But it has more of a kick.

Gang Of Four said it best ...

Armalite rifle, police and IRA
Armalite rifle, use it everyday

Breaks down easy, fits into a pram
A child can carry it, do it no harm

My partner always cautions people against getting back surgery for the purpose of alleviating pain, since there's absolutely no guarantee of that happening (despite what surgeons say). I guess this is why?

that's what fentanyl is for

^Amy Grant's best moment

to help us snooze it

Lol i know nothing abt guns but i'd assumed that an ar-15 while light *for an assault rifle* would still be a heavyish kind of thing to carry around routinely

I've also had disappointing back surgery so there but for the grace of god goes my surgeon

Tho the op did mean i got to stay home for the 2018 world cup so i felt we were square anyway (i did get better, it just took a while and wasn't 100% which, middle age lol)

xpost That's why he only bought it that afternoon

:: BREAKING NOW @tmj4: Five people shot at Graceland Cemetery in Racine during funeral for Da’Shontay King, man shot by Racine Police on May 20.

— Steve Chamraz (@TMJ4Steve) June 2, 2022

Zero doors in a cemetery and still.

https://www.kcci.com/article/cornerstone-church-ames-iowa-police-presence/40181931?fbclid=IwAR3X6mOz31YnGXG4g0uFg5EcKo-H0MGRcvuP6JR7AGRnEIvvM9L_Gkarv7o#