Notes from the Resistance
The St. Charles County office workers attended a training session Thursday, to be prepared in the event of a mass shooting. [More]
Tell me that doesn’t have a “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” vibe to it.
So in all this preparation and training, has anyone been instructed on the only way to, you know, stop one?
No?
[Via bondmen]
So, when gun-control advocates claim that mass shootings represent a special case that the Founders never knew about or could have predicted, they’re wrong. Right now, they’re using the nation’s anger and fear over mass shootings to push for a raft of new gun-rights restrictions. But those laws will probably violate the Constitution, for reasons the Supreme Court has made crystal clear. [More]
It’s interesting how those who want to erase the Founders from the collective memory are always presuming to tell us what they understood.
[Via bondmen]
Should the case against the Crumbley parents be allowed to proceed, it would set a dangerous precedent. [More]
What a nightmare. And the legal issues are the least of it.
If it were your child, would you rather an armed teacher had been able to stop him instead of having to live with this?
[Via Michael G]
Report Finds Nearly 400 Officers Were at Elementary as Uvalde Police Waited to Engage Lone Gunman [More]
I bet when it’s that crowded it can get pretty tough finding a place to hide behind.
[Via Robert J]
Cops responding to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting ran away from gunshots while 19 children and two teachers were left to die in their classrooms… [More]
I guess turning your back on the armed crazy and skedaddling to save your own precious hindquarters are time-honored tactics:
On the bright side, these are the guys they’ll send to confiscate the “20 million AR-15 style rifles.”
UPDATE
Ann Barnhardt calls it like she sees it.
[Via WiscoDave]
While most experts say comprehensive gun control is still the best solution to mass shootings… [More]
Well, that right there tells me I can’t trust a thing that follows. That and blocking access to what AoL considers “extreme,” blaming “racism” i.e. traditional American culture, and adding in a dash of “equity” collectivism…
Besides, when they emphasize “young men and boys,” how are we supposed to define either?
I don’t suppose beating unforgiving woke culture into young skulls from an early age perverts minds and instills an obsession for exacting revenge against institutions perceived as sources of torment…?
And how are you going to “combat” $h!+ when you don’t even mention the only deterrent proven to stop manufactured monsters in their tracks except to say we need to prohibit that?
[Via Jess]
Stop Making Killers Famous [More]
Agreed. Make the @$$holes notorious instead by exposing their collectivist natures. After all, no monster who does this can possibly believe in due process and equal protection, which automatically makes them enemies of freedom advocates (even though the collectivists will throw out terms like “right-wing” to conflate them with traditional culturists.)
What I don’t agree with is withholding their identities for reasons highlighted here. Doing so makes us rely entirely on politically beholden “authorities” and their media allies for an “official” narrative, with social media tech giants erasing any online tracks that might lead to different endpoints. That results in the public being deceived by lies claiming outrageous crap like “Robert ‘Bobby’ Crimo III confirmed to be raging Trump supporter.” Engineered public ignorance is then exploited to gin up demands for gun bans.
So no, I don’t agree that names should be suppressed. Had that effort been more thorough, we would not be able to see for ourselves the following information I have been warned may be considered “law enforcement sensitive” (although I don’t see why):
I suggest if you’re interested in these that you save what you want before someone tries to disappear them.
More, not fewer people should be aware of these because it is our right to investigate claims for ourselves. After all, if the government wanting to keep things under wraps was a showstopper, Gunwalker would still be a state secret.
I submit that suppression is more dangerous than any desire of budding maniacs for fame, there is no credible data showing the behavior of anyone so twisted and evil would be channeled into more benign pursuits, and the most effective thing those wishing to deter mass killers could do would be to stop providing them with unlimited unarmed-by-law victim pools.
I do not know who is behind the photo/video site (it is registered through a proxy) and note that it also contains a text link I won’t post here that is extremely racist, offensive, and vile. The home page also links to an essay by someone who has developed a similar reputation for himself.
I share Mike Vanderboegh’s contention that racism– judging a person’s worth by anything other than their ideology and conduct as an individual — reveals anyone doing so to be a collectivist, that is, my enemy. That said, the information I have linked to appears to be authentic. That’s something those with the inclination and ability to verify things wouldn’t be able to do if we didn’t know where to start if we followed the advice we started this post with that no one with real reach is going to listen to anyway.
You know, the “real reporters” all parroting the narrative…
And this just in from @pamnsc:
Uncovered information shows Highland Park shooter, Bobby Crimo has a very dark background with ties to Antifa and the Occult [More]
Whatever it turns out to be, we need those names and those arguing against that are being short-sighted and ceding a propaganda advantage to the enemy.
At least 19 dead in pair of mass shootings in South Africa, police confirm [More]
Thank goodness in South Africa it’s illegal to use a gun in self-defense!
But what do I know? I “clearly haven’t been raped.”
Uvalde police officer had gunman in his rifle sights before he entered school but didn’t fire, report says [More]
The one time they didn’t shoot first and ask questions later…
Interviewed by cops twice in 2019 after he threatened to ‘kill everyone’ and had 16 knives, dagger and sword confiscated – but wasn’t arrested [More]
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
So much for nobody, including the family, knowing. Which makes Uncle Paul either a liar or someone not close to the family at all trying to publicly distance himself.
And:
July 4 shooting: Social media companies a ‘big part’ of shooting, not sharing content with police, says ex-cop [More]
The guy is coming from an “Only Ones” mindset, so it figures that would be his top concern.
Even more objectionable in the long run: Doing this in all such cases removes a major source of information with context from being investigated, forcing us to rely on an official government narrative shaped by what it wants us to know and doesn’t want us to know for reasons it won’t share because they conflict with the tightening of the grip.
UPDATES
Robert ‘Bobby’ Crimo III confirmed to be raging Trump supporter
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Information Uncovered Overnight Shows Highland Park Shooter, Bobby Crimo, Is Tied to Socialists, Progressives, Antifa and the Occult
We can’t tell if the means to check has been deleted.
Father of Highland Park shooting suspect sponsored son’s firearm ownership card despite past violent threats
YouTube, Instagram, Discord appear to pull pages belonging to Illinois shooting person of interest- He also had Spotify and Apple Music pages under an apparent rap alias [More]
Gee, why would the information controllers erase his trails? Especially when they’re simultaneously dropping hints that he was somehow affiliated with Donald Trump supporters?
UPDATES
Highland Park shooting suspect was ‘known to law enforcement’ [More]
No surprise there. And tell me those feeding him didn’t know he was broken.
I note the “real reporter” mentions an association with a “far-right European group” but never fleshes that out. I guess “mission accomplished” is what mattered.
[Via bondmen]
On most of Crimo’s social-media pages, and embedded in several of his videos, is a symbol that roughly resembles that used by Suomen Sisu, a far-right Finnish organization. Crimo, however, does not appear to mention the national group in his postings.
Where Texas teachers carry guns, a community feels more secure [More]
They don’t just FEEL secure.
[Via Jim S]
Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring more than 20 on the day the city was due to celebrate its annual Pride parade. [More]
The country has had strict rules for years, including mandatory gun safety classes and an involved licensing process. But it took seven years after the 2011 massacre to enact a ban on semiautomatic weapons that was inspired by the attack. It went into effect at the end of last year.
[Via Jess]
And now, the rest of the story:
Islamist Terror Attack on Gay Nightclub in Oslo, Norway Kills Two, Wounds 21; Iranian Gunman Arrested [More]
Funny, what the Reuters report minimized and buried. It’s almost like they have an agenda…
[Via Michael G]
“You don’t get to pretend that you care about public safety if you’re a governor who allows six major mass shootings to happen on your watch while actively going out of your way to make it easier for criminals to carry guns.” [More]
What a lying @$$hole.
These idiots, too.
[Via bondmen]
Self-described ‘antiracism educator’ Tim Wise recently wrote an opinion piece for Politico about the May shooting in Buffalo, New York. In the article, he blames the incident on the purported lack of anti-racism education, a situation for which he blames conservatives. [More]
So they need more?
As opposed to years of bullying brainwashing causing the weaker links to snap and lash out in revenge at the people and places they see as sources of torment?
“Wise,” huh? What’s the opposite of an aptronym?
[Via Michael G]
There’s a Constitutional Conservative Way to End Mass Shootings [More]
“Arming school personnel is a serious decision that is left up entirely to your school. It is optional,” DeWine wrote. [More]
So in spite of all the hoop-de-doo, the great majority will remain “gun-free zones.” So much for “preemption” when you codify a “patchwork quilt.”
This guy never fails to prove himself a weasel trying to play all sides, does he?
Tangentially related, Pursuit of Patriotism wonders about school district liability in mass shootings. I’ve long maintained the failure is not so much one of unthinking negligence as it is outright hostility and deliberate indifference.
Of course, student safety should be a top priority. But have you thought of the repercussions of the school security they are requesting? [More]
Some people have been negative online, saying, “Why homeschool your kids when they’ll live in isolation and become the next mass shooter?” [More]
And the body of evidence for that is? And cite someone other than Marxist public teachers unions that have failed everyone except themselves, and that will fight tooth and nail against a tax credit that might diminish the slop in their troughs.
So their solution is to send their children to “gun-free” mass shooter assembly lines.
[Via bondmen]
“… 21 of these 160 incidents just like this were disrupted and successfully stopped by unarmed individuals…” [Watch]
I got your “run, hide, fight” right here… Funny, how you have to watch to the very end to get this calculated little factoid.
By “just like this” she means the police were unable/unwilling to get to them in time and they were forbidden by law from having the means of effective defense, making it fair to wonder what the outcome might have been and how many lives might have been saved in the other 139 incidents had that not been the case…
[Via Jess]
Mass shooters inspired by hatred and the politics of the left [More]
So consider the source. Read and share the latest from Miguel A. Faria, MD.
Everybody here has read the book, right?
No?
Uvalde Shows Once Again That Cops Are Just Armed Bureaucrats – What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration. [More]
So it’s not just “a few bad apples“?
[Via Michael G]
The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded, a Texas state senator said Friday. [More]
This meme sums things up more accurately than any “news” account I’ve seen.
[Via Jess]
Mass shooters overwhelmingly fit a certain profile, say Jillian Peterson and James Densley, which means it’s possible to ID and treat them before they commit violence. [More]
Fine, but in all their Department of Precrime advocacy, they’re a little light on full due process and still seem trapped in the mindset that passing edicts against tool possession will stop a determined maniac.
[Via DDS]
I request that these committees review what steps previous legislatures have enacted, what resources the State has made available to local school districts, and make recommendations to the Legislature and the Executive Branch so that meaningful action can be made on, among other things, the following topics to prevent future school shootings:
School safety
Mental health
Social media
Police training
Firearm safety [More]
OK, Governor, flesh out what you mean by that last one.
[Via Lane]
