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Gathered thoughts

5/28/2022

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The usual suspects are already holding up Uvalde as an example of a good person with a gun doesn't work. Stretching the logic like pantyhose, but I can see where it might just be a delusion instead of a lie.
The night after Uvalde, a man started shooting up a graduation party in Charleston WV. A concealed carrier at the party shot him, killed him, and waited for the cops to come. There were no other casualties.
Good people armed, already there, and willing to fight works when it's permitted to. End of story.
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Given that at least three departments were on scene at Uvalde, it will probably be a while before they stop stepping on each other's dicks long enough to investigate, clean it up for the public affairs folks, and release it to the press.
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And before I say this, I will reiterate that if you're screaming for both gun control and ACAB, you're the kind of dupe that's defying Darwin by your continued existence.
That said, most badges are shaped like a shield for a reason.
If you wear one and aren't willing to act as such for the public you swore an oath to serve, then it might as well be the lid of a garbage can.
I do not know for certain, and won't for some time. But if it turns out the commander on scene declared a barricaded suspect while shots were being fired and calls from children inside were still being relayed through dispatch?
Then the scene commander needs to be in prison. And those who obeyed the order with such knowledge need their badges taken.
I'm not even letting my imagination contemplate worthy treatment for those who restrained parents from entering themselves. That kind of shit makes me glad I'm not the kind of pagan that can call upon the furies.
Take care of yourselves out there.
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I see the usual spins and counterspins are in place

5/26/2022

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Particularly irritating is when the last few holdouts of stupidly restrictive gun laws come up with the dumbest theories as to why their laws didn't work and they need more.
Remember the Sacramento shooting? Happened about a thousand years ago, or as they say around here (checks notes) this April?
Six killed, twelve wounded, everyone involved stopped giving a shit once they realized it was gang related?
Except the gun control lobby insisted that in a city with every single weapons restriction they ever asked for, up to and including background checks for ammo purchases, it still wasn't enough.
Why?
Because only California had those restrictions. They'd really be effective if they were nationwide.
(Side note: California expats, this is why your neighbors don't trust you. They know you fled a neo-feudal shithole and they're happy for you, really. But then you insist on voting for the very same crap that made California what it is today in the first place. That, not appreciated as much. Work on that.)
Chicago pulls the same bullshit. Can't go five minutes without whining about Indiana. Ditto Baltimore and DC about Virginia, NYC about the rest of the damn country, the list goes on.
And that is why I despise the gun control lobby. Because it's not enough for them to be helpless peasants, they insist that YOU need to be one as well.
Fuck you, no.
I remember after one shooting, some minor celebrity admitted that he bought a gun from a friend in a California parking lot OPENLY ON TWITTER. Fuck-all nothing happened to him.
Same with the DC journalist who waved around a standard magazine in a DC news studio even when it was illegal at the time.
The cognitive dissonance to do shit like that and still insist your bad ideas should still work boggles the mind.
Honestly, one of the few laws I would support is coming down on straw purchasers.
Not the dealers, the purchasers.
Won't do much for mass shootings. Those usually gain weapons one of three ways.
One, purchased legally. Not much to do there.
Two, purchased illegally because a reporting agency didn't update to NICS. That's more or less a funding and staffing issue for a slew of state, local, and federal agencies.
Three, murder a family member and take their (legal) weapons. Again, not much they can do there.
Straw purchases, on the other hand, are the source of much more gun crime. But they are rarely if ever prosecuted. And suspected attempts aren't required to be reported. When they are, cops find it much easier to try and prosecute Bubba's gun and bait store instead of the clean-record girlfriend of a convicted felon.
Unfortunately, the same things that make it easy for straw purchasers to get caught make proving intent a bitch. Like being stupid enough to come with your entire crew and send only the one guy without a record to make the buy while the guys with records wait in the car. Or sending your girlfriend with neither record nor clue about guns, and try to coach her through her cellphone through the process.
It would be a time and resource suck, and I know our legal system has plenty of those already. Shit, I just read about a case in Brooklyn where a 16-year old, on his second weapons charge, shot a cop and himself in the struggle surrounding his arrest, and Brooklyn's D.A. dropped the charges. If shooting a cop arresting you for illegally having a loaded weapon in your hand doesn't get you prosecuted, lying on paperwork probably won't either.
Take care of yourselves out there.
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Posted elsewhere

5/25/2022

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I hesitate to put forward what I think is the root of the problem. Because then I step out of my subject matter expert office and throw out a wild ass guess with everyone else.
But fuck it, it's my page.
For years now, one word has been in the back of my mind.
Despair.
A lot of people in a lot of demographics are convinced that as a society and a species, we're fucked. And this goes across generational lines. We see it in baby boomers finding the safety net they've paid into their entire lives has huge rips and is spread over a concrete floor. We see it in Gen X'ers laid off, told to go back to school and getting out to find they've been replaced by a cheaper millenial. We find millenials sold a serious bill of goods, smart enough to discover exactly how they're getting fucked by the man and finding a dozen or more clever ways to fuck back.
Our suicide rate has gone up 35% since the late 90's, according to the national institute of mental health.
And a tiny strain of cishet dudes seem determined to take a few with them when they go.
And one in a million choosing to go out in a hail of antiheroism is still 320 of them running around the country at any given moment.
And I have no idea, culturally, how to change or stop that.
The patriarchy, toxic masculinity, critical race theory... shit. I can see why so many parents are pissed off. Take a single demographic of kids and let them know from kindergarten on up that people like them are why the world is shit, and you get confused when they get pissed off and insist otherwise? Or have shitty self-esteem and can't talk among themselves except to egg on each other's hatred?
Is is any wonder why we got parents who believe transgenderism is an agenda being pushed instead of a state of being finally being allowed to openly flourish? If you teach a kid all their life that there's nothing worse than being a cishet white dude, then point out that there are other options, are you really surprised that some are going to fuck up the math in that equation?
I don't think these folks are right. Not even close.
But I can see where they're coming from.
We can laugh and joke about "carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white dude." But seriously, where did you think he would go? What did you think he would do?
Did you really think they would all just wander off somewhere else to die where you wouldn't have to look at or think about them?
Are we seriously surprised that white supremacy is on the rise? Or the ctrl-left and their vicious mobs? Show people a place where they'll be treated like people instead of garbage and they'll go along with a lot.
Show them nowhere to go, and where will they?
And that's without getting into the loads of spin and counter-spin happening with every shooting that actually makes the news. It used to be I'd wait the first 48, then 72 hours, to say a damn thing. Because all the bleeders are leaders folk would fuck up their facts all over the place in the first day.
Only now everyone's got their own facts. If I wasn't retired, I'd be spending the first 24 hours screencapping and downloading as fast as possible because motherfuckers are not shy about lying, deleting, and banning to fit the narrative they want. Even as out of the loop as I was, there's some serious shit in the buffalo shooters manifesto that does not fit the narrative at all, and that's where I'll stop.
I got no solutions.
I wish I fucking did.
All I got are stoppers.
People smarter than me are out their busting their brains trying to figure out the hows and whys of those who take the step to do this without running into "best indicator of present behavior is past behavior" and I don't have any magic gunman cheat code to help there or any other kind of prevention.
All I know is what treatments work when it begins.
Along with a prayer it doesn't happen again.
And another that it's stopped swiftly by someones who know what I know.
The speed bumps and the patch ups.
Take care of yourselves out there.
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