We’re the Only Ones Prepping Enough

As gun reform stalls, police prepare for the worst [More]

They think they’re “outgunned”? I’ve been hearing that lie for decades and we aren’t the ones with surplus MRAPs.

What about the real “first responders,” disarmed by unconstitutional “gun-free zone” diktats? The ones mandated to be helpless and slaughtered unless they can run away or hide even after you lot show up and take cover?

[Via Dan Gifford]

Apportioning the Blame

Michigan Appeals Court Weighs Charging Parents of School Shooter With Manslaughter [More]

There may not be legal grounds for this, but it sure sounds like there are moral ones. They had the long-term and daily context everyone else did not.

If I’d seen these signs in one of my boys and was too much of an in-denial coward to intervene, Shakespeare’s line about many deaths comes to mind.

That, of course, assumes they’re not sociopaths who can admit no wrongdoing themselves.

[Via Michael G]

Valhalla, I am Coming

Santa Rosa student, 16, fatally stabbed in Montgomery High School classroom; 2nd student injured [More]

The two older attackers ganged up on him? And the school board has ensured everyone in the schools is a soft target?

Unless there’s more to this story, what did the kid do wrong?

And why do they still have that racist Viking logo, and what did Vikings do to people?

[Via Steve T]

‘Except as Permitted by State Law’

MSU Students: ‘Allow Us to Defend Ourselves and Carry on Campus’ [More]

What’s stopping them?

“Except as permitted by state law regulating firearms, no person shall possess any firearm or weapon anywhere upon property governed by the Board…”

And what does state law say?

Individuals licensed to carry a concealed pistol by Michigan or another state are prohibited from carrying a concealed pistol or a portable device that uses electro-muscular disruption technology on the following premises… A dormitory or classroom of a community college, college, or university.

[Via Henry Bowman]

And Where are the Demanding Moms?

I thought this was a human rights violation…???