* These drills should not be necessary. Pass some gun control. * Keep your hands of Pooh. Do these folks really want to destroy everything? Also, this is copyright infringement.
They're not necessary. Schools shootings are still, despite the panting, desperate media coverage, exceedingly rare. School shooter drills and supporting materials do more damage to students than they prevent.
Presidential assassinations are even more exceedingly rare. All this secret service and armored cars bullshit is just to stoke the overblown egos of the various commander in chiefs.
Presidential assassinations are even more exceedingly rare.
Assassinations yes. But almost all modern presidents have the goal of very serious attempts to murder them.
All this secret service and armored cars bullshit is just to stoke the overblown egos of the various commander in chiefs.
It is to a certain extend.
Security experts in the DC area are paranoid and regretfully get their way too often. They also rely too much on (bureaucratic) technology that is heavily pushed by its manufacturers while more human solutions are very possible an realistic.
The unfortunate result is that the American government is slowly retreating from society and locking itself up in unbreachable forts.
For instance, while there are all kinds of problems with the current (too small) FBI building in downtown DC, the new proposed bunker surrounded by a moat with alligators (ok, the alligators are not in the prospectus, but will be welcomed at the new Alabama location for the FBI) in a DC suburb is bit crazy. Especially because they also want to be near a metro station so that their employees can come to work by metro.
“They're not necessary. Schools shootings are still, despite the panting, desperate media coverage, exceedingly rare.”
And the lack of willingness to do anything to make them rarer has made the United States the butt of a joke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens
There are mass shootings and there are also 'merely' shootings on school property. In addition, shootings in the neighborhoods where there are schools, when students may be traveling back and forth from school in those times. So far in 2023, we've had more than one mass shooting a day, not all at schools but still a serious indication of our lack of self discipline and inability to adhere to law & order.
The charts in the following links are eye opening:
This is disgusting.
ReplyDelete* These drills should not be necessary. Pass some gun control.
* Keep your hands of Pooh. Do these folks really want to destroy everything? Also, this is copyright infringement.
Winnie-the-Pooh has been in the public domain since 1 January 2022.
Deletehttps://www.polygon.com/22857224/winnie-the-pooh-public-domain-2022
Another article explaining the difference between the original Pooh (now in the public domain) and Disney's Pooh:
Deletehttps://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=27fc5684-bd70-4280-a6cd-f3ed19765be5
They're not necessary. Schools shootings are still, despite the panting, desperate media coverage, exceedingly rare. School shooter drills and supporting materials do more damage to students than they prevent.
DeletePresidential assassinations are even more exceedingly rare. All this secret service and armored cars bullshit is just to stoke the overblown egos of the various commander in chiefs.
DeleteInsincere argument. This is like being constantly terrified of hurricanes in Missouri.
DeleteWinnie-the-Pooh has been in the public domain since 1 January 2022.
DeleteI should have remembered that. Good point.
Still disgusting (ab)use of a children's character.
Presidential assassinations are even more exceedingly rare.
DeleteAssassinations yes. But almost all modern presidents have the goal of very serious attempts to murder them.
All this secret service and armored cars bullshit is just to stoke the overblown egos of the various commander in chiefs.
It is to a certain extend.
Security experts in the DC area are paranoid and regretfully get their way too often. They also rely too much on (bureaucratic) technology that is heavily pushed by its manufacturers while more human solutions are very possible an realistic.
The unfortunate result is that the American government is slowly retreating from society and locking itself up in unbreachable forts.
For instance, while there are all kinds of problems with the current (too small) FBI building in downtown DC, the new proposed bunker surrounded by a moat with alligators (ok, the alligators are not in the prospectus, but will be welcomed at the new Alabama location for the FBI) in a DC suburb is bit crazy. Especially because they also want to be near a metro station so that their employees can come to work by metro.
ReplyDelete“They're not necessary. Schools shootings are still, despite the panting, desperate media coverage, exceedingly rare.”
And the lack of willingness to do anything to make them rarer has made the United States the butt of a joke.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens
There are mass shootings and there are also 'merely' shootings on school property. In addition, shootings in the neighborhoods where there are schools, when students may be traveling back and forth from school in those times. So far in 2023, we've had more than one mass shooting a day, not all at schools but still a serious indication of our lack of self discipline and inability to adhere to law & order.
ReplyDeleteThe charts in the following links are eye opening:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166651590/nashville-school-shootings-gun-violence-children-cause-death-2023
https://k12ssdb.org/all-shootings
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/politics/us-400-mass-shootings/index.html