A school shooting in Texas

[kalowski]

Except the cuba plane crash is the lead story on the BBC news site right now.

Sorry, meant on the News at Ten.

[Dr Trouser]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-suggests-school-shooting-because-of-too-many-exits

So there you have it, a plethora of egressess is to blame.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Another one, and on the same day!  They're really trying hard to lower that average!

Jonesboro, Georgia.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/18/two-shot-in-parking-lot-after-high-school-graduation-ceremony/

[petril]

That America's the only country where mass shootings happen on the regular. It's also the only country where everyone says Thoughts And Prayers a week or two before

[Bhazor]

Senator Ted Cruz
‏@SenTedCruz

"My prayer is that in the face of this anger, that the men and women of Santa Fe will reflect to the world God's love. That Santa Fe will reflect to the world, the love of the Gospels...And that the world will see that peace and understanding that's reflected from this community"

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/997671817270751232

Fucking. Cretins.

[Johnny Yesno]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-suggests-school-shooting-because-of-too-many-exits

So there you have it, a plethora of egressess is to blame.

Who says there's even going to be a fire?

[petril]

funny how it always seems to happen 2-3 weeks after the country erupts in a frenzy of Thoughts And Prayers. that's probably the cause, innit?

[Bazooka]

Has a school shooter ever shot a school shooter? It's the only remedy.

[Poisson Du Jour]

Just imagine how we would have reacted if this thread was called "A school shooting on Texas"

[jobotic]

They thought about having a new fire exit at my son's school until I pointed out that all the kids would get shot. Fucking idiots.

[Bhazor]

Look all he's saying is we need to secure the perimeter. Three soldiers per teacher. One guard to observe the class, one guard to watch the teacher (who will be armed with a collapsable thompson machine gun with optional tripod mount), while the third guard will observe the first two guards to ensure neither suffers a bout of PTSD and starts gunning down children. Just three or four nice little reinforced bunkers with overlapping kill fields over the swing set and a long range cruise missile targeted at the school in case the situation becomes untenable and the whole district needs to be reduced to base rock to save the larger state. Is that really so strange?

[saltysnacks]

I honestly feel nothing when I hear about school shootings now. It's beyond absurd.

[ollyboro]

We need to build a wall around gunmen. Commonsense.

[remedial_gash]

I honestly feel nothing when I hear about school shootings now. It's beyond absurd.

The most shocking images to me are those of kids - who have nearly died being told to kneel with arms behind their heads as heavily armed cunts make sure that they aren't a threat.

Edit : Yeah, otherwise don't give a fuck, just waiting for a new high score.

[Bhazor]

Not seen it mentioned yet. But yes. The school had at least two armed guards.

Officers stationed at the school engaged Mr Pagourtzis. One of them, John Barnes, was injured. He was in a critical condition and undergoing surgery, local media reported.

So what you're saying is we need at least 5 armed guards at every school.

As school shootings seem impossible to prevent FOR SOME REASON I think all we can do is try a controlled event. My suggestion would be a secret death raffle. All schools in the country are entered into a big tombola and one lucky winner each month becomes the Battle Royale school. All the school shooters in the country are invited, they get a free AR15 and a monster energy drink and they can just go wild on an unsuspecting school. I mean if it's going to happen anyway might as well be organised about it.

[JamesTC]

They need to ban schools. Or at the very least they need to heavily regulate access to schools.

[idunnosomename]

It's ten past ten. Neither this story nor the 100 people dead in Havana have knocked the feel good story of are wonderful royals marrying. Long live the spirit of Di!

It's the morning after. BREAKING they're still married.

[Bhazor]

Breitbart is now defending the deeply stupid one entrance one exit claim by Dan Patrick.

Nolte: Meet a National Reporter Who Does Not Know How Fire Exits Work

Sam Stein is a national political reporter for the Daily Beast and frequent NBC News contributor, and he appears to have no idea how a fire exit works.

According to a BuzzFeed reporter, in response to Friday's Santa Fe school shooting massacre, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said, "Had there been one single entrance possibly for every student, maybe he would have been stopped."

Stein read this quote and flipped out...

"This is a bad, bad idea. getting out of a school is just as important as getting in. And it's not just about guns. A fire, for instance, would be a horrifying nightmare if there was only one entrance/exit," Stein tweeted.

Later, he added, "[T]he degree to which people will think of truly odd and bad policies in an effort to actually avoid tackling the issue of firearm accessibility is remarkable":

Part of the problem with Stein's response is simply the reactionary way in which the establishment media are locked and loaded to shoot down every idea that does not involve infringing on our Second Amendment civil rights.

A big part of this, though, is just plain old ignorance of the details and workings of ordinary, everyday life. So-called journalists today, who float above-it-all in the ether of green rooms, cocktail parties, and the elite salons of D.C. and Manhattan, have so lost touch with the mechanics of normal life, even the idea of a fire exit sails over their pointy head, comes off as "truly odd" and alien.

Let me describe for you a place that controls its entrance in the exact same way the lieutenant governor describes, a place I like to call the Washington, DC, studios of  NBC News — you know, a place Sam Stein probably knows fairly well. At this magical place, everyone is funneled through a single entrance in the parking lot, and then through a single entrance into the studio. I do not want to go into the kind of detail that might compromise NBC's security, but that was my experience.

The same is true of all movie theaters and airport terminals (hence, the long lines), most (if not all) courthouses, office buildings, and government buildings; my local grocery store, most restaurants and fast food joints, and pretty much every job I have ever worked at. What's more, I am willing to bet Stein's cushy office at the Daily Beast works the same way.

For security purposes, in most every public building, you are going to be funneled through a controlled entrance or two. My local Walmart is as big as any school and there are only two ways in.

"BUT OMG WHAT IF THERE'S A FIRE!?!?!" a bubbled provincial might scream.

In case of fire or any other emergency, there are these wondrous things called fire exits, and what they allow an establishment to do is ensure security without risking safety.

Fire exits are amazing in how they allow anyone to exit while at the same time not allowing anyone to enter. You see, these clearly marked fire exits are locked on the outside, but not on the inside.

We truly do live in the age of miracles.

Outside of the hysterical bias and dishonesty, it is their repeated failure to grasp the commonplace and ordinary details of life outside of a television studio that is most responsible for killing the establishment media. And this is an unforced error. It used to be that reporters prided themselves on real-world experience, the time they spent with their sleeves rolled up and in touch with everyday life. No more.

Today, we are stuck with these soy boys sold to us as our "thought leaders," even though they are so far removed and out of touch with the practical world, so over-educated about everything but the mundane details of ordinary life, they have no idea how a fire exit works and find the common sense use of one a "horrifying nightmare."

Even though Patrick said that he wanted a "single exit" so that they would know where the gunman left. I guess these down to earth real men who work for Breitbart think fire exits are sentient benevolent creatures who will allow good children to exit while sealing up to prevent the bad children. The knots these cunts will tie themselves into to defend their politicians.

[Bhazor]

The right are blaming videogames and violent music again. Wonder what the gamer gater demographic of the Trump base will think about that.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/watch/new-nra-leader-oliver-north-on-school-shootings-andaposdisease-isn%E2%80%99t-the-second-amendmentandapos/vp-AAxyAc6

[Bhazor]

Another one in Indiana. Ahh shucks.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/25/us/indiana-school-shots-fired/index.html