The 'Mass-Shooting In The US' thread

[Rome]

The NRA is a despicable organization.  Their stance here reminds me of the war profiteers who were giddy at the prospect of conflicts in Iraq & Afghanistan because their profits would soar.

Absolutely amoral & evil at the core.

Death throes indeed.

[Geowhizzer]

My school has had an assigned deputy since I started here nearly 20 years ago.  Couldn't tell you for certain if he's paid for by the school district or the sheriff's office (I think it's the sheriff's office but wouldn't bet the house on it).  In our district the high schools and middle schools are each assigned a deputy. 

For the most part, the resource officer's (official title) role is to be a liason to the students.  He's come into my classes twice already this year for a few things:  internet safety, bullying, etc.  He's also taken kids out of school if they're caught with drugs or weapons (we've never had students with guns, but a few have come with knives of some sort).

Adding a resource officer to the elementary schools would effectively double the cost, since there are approximately double the number of elementary schools then there are middle and high schools combined.  My district (in Florida each county functions as a school district) has 50 elemtary schools.  50 schools X $50,000 (just a very rough estimation) is $2.5 million just in our school district.

As an aside, our district had a budget of over $1 billion last year.  A farging school district in one county in Florida had a burget of over a billion dollars ($1.3 Billion in 2012-2013).  A peacetime U.S. government (excluding the Civil War) didn't have a billion dollar budget until the 20th century (World War I in 1917, to be exact).

[Diomedes]

[NRA]We can rest peacefully once each child is assigned an escort from Seal Team Six[/NRA]

[SunMo]

a 14 year old punk threatened a kid at Council Rock High School this week.  the threat was reported to a teacher, the police were called.  they went to his house with an arrest warrant and asked the parents if there were guns in the house.  they said yes.  however the farging guns were stored UNLOCKED IN THE 14 YEAR OLD'S BEDROOM.  the parents were also arrested for allowing firearm access to a minor.  oh yeah, there drugs in the house too. 

sweet work everybody, real solid effort

[MDS]

to the nra guns = toys

they have successfully turned dangerous deadly weapons into household items everyone has and everyone can have lying around willy nilly. awesome.

[Diomedes]

this guns thing is working out great

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/24/us/new-york-firefighters-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

I suppose the NRA will suggest that we arm firefighters too.  Or provide each company a SWAT team for protection...

[Diomedes]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/24/us/houston-police-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Further proof that all bystanders should be armed.  If the guy in the pickup and the other guy in the parking lot had only been armed to the teeth...

[PhillyPhreak54]

Exactly!

Bellaire isn't exactly a bad side of town...awful news

[Diomedes]

I can visualize the scene easily..bad guy being chased, shooting.  Cop giving chase, shooting.  Guy in pick up shooting.  Bystander in parking lot, shooting.

It would have worked out much better that way.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I can visualize the scene easily..bad guy being chased, shooting.  Cop giving chase, shooting.  Guy in pick up shooting.  Bystander in parking lot, shooting.

It would have worked out much better that way.

Its Texas so don't forget to add the middle school aged children in the background ready to draw down as well

[Diomedes]

I'm starting to think I support a total ban on guns and whatever it takes to confiscate them.

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.chron.com/news/local_news/article/S-A-folks-drawn-to-assault-weapons-at-gun-show-4141064.php

[Diomedes]

Maybe just a ban on any firearm with post 1791 technology.

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20121224_Man_shot_in_front_of_five-year-old_son.html

South Philly in a busy parking lot.

Guy is shot in front of his 5yr old son. The video is sad as you see the kid running away at the end towards a lady

[Diomedes]

The assailant followed the man into the lot, got out of his car, fired 17 shots and drove off. The child was not physically injured.

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