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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 16, 2018 - 12:52pm PT
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Watch out. The other shooting thread got locked!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2018 - 12:52pm PT
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False alarm, but sobering!
A few years ago when I was teaching at Park Middle school in Antioch Ca, we had a bomb threat phoned in. It was after school and just teachers and staff on campus, and thought to be a false alarm. We were told to go have.
Even knowing that there probably nothing to it, it, Was somewhat chilling.
We live in scary times.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 16, 2018 - 12:59pm PT
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Nah, 1942 was scary times.
October 1962 was scary times.
Now somebody shtoops a porn queen and it is more important than Black Lives Matter.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Feb 16, 2018 - 01:04pm PT
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I do not enjoy time in the classroom these days.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Polebridge, Montana
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Feb 16, 2018 - 01:05pm PT
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Delete Jay. For Highline's sake just to avoid confusion.
So glad your daughter is OK.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2018 - 08:55pm PT
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Good point ski. I'll give it a little time to see what comes then delete.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 16, 2018 - 10:50pm PT
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hey there, say, jaybro... thanks for sharing...
prayers... (sounds trite, but, when one can't do anything else, one can
do this) ...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2018 - 07:08am PT
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Well said Neebs!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 17, 2018 - 08:24pm PT
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Jay
I'm glad it wasn't another one, and happy your daughter is safe.
Too many of these. . .
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Feb 17, 2018 - 09:18pm PT
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I want to express my gratitude to all of the young children in the U.S.A. who have sacrificed their lives to protect our right to carry guns.
To all you children, your deaths have not been in vain; I still have my guns.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 23, 2018 - 05:29am PT
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So you think having armed police at schools will stop all this? Think again.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-florida-shooting-resource-officer-20180222-story.html
An armed sheriff's deputy tasked with protecting students at a Florida high school waited outside during last week's shooting massacre that killed 17 people inside, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Scot Peterson, who was assigned to the school as a resource officer, did not enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the shooting, but instead decided to take position outside the school as the gunman walked the halls, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a news conference.
"He never went in," Israel said.
Does a guy with a pistol stand a chance against a guy with a semi-automatic rifle?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2018 - 08:27am PT
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Which means we have to work on this the long way around; we have to address what it is in our world today that is causing the acceleration. Of this type of violence and work on that!
In the meantime making rapid fire weapons less available to kids, and everyone else, isn't going to hurt. No matter how your ( misunderstanding or) 2nd amendment feelings are hurt.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Feb 23, 2018 - 08:51am PT
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Does a guy with a pistol stand a chance against a guy with a semi-automatic rifle?
Sure. First of all, most handguns sold now are semi-automatic. So it's a semi-automatic handgun versus a semi-automatic rifle. No advantage there.
The main advantage of a rifle is much-increased accuracy, which is largely irrelevant in a close-quarter situation.
Yes a typical rifle has much more power than a typical handgun, but that's also largely irrelevant in that if you get shot with a 9mm loaded with self-defense ammo, you're basically done. For example, the Virginia Tech shooter used a 9mm (32 fatalities with that "pea shooter").
(One possible exception--if the criminal is wearing body armor, you may need a rifle to take him out--that could be a problem . . . )
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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Feb 23, 2018 - 08:58am PT
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Gotta buy your own bullets though
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Feb 23, 2018 - 09:02am PT
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I don't think i'd trust Jody around kids, with or without a gun.
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Feb 23, 2018 - 09:09am PT
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So the good guy with the little handgun against the high capacity AR15 brings the death toll down to 10. But I thought we were only supposed to do 100% solutions?
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John M
climber
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Feb 23, 2018 - 09:15am PT
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Its likely going to take many different approaches, including arming some school staff, and giving them pay raises, and either banning semi auto weapons or making them more difficult for at least young people to own them, and likely other things that we haven't even thought of yet before we solve this problem.
But I thought we were only supposed to do 100% solutions?
good point..
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 23, 2018 - 09:36am PT
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Per the problem with Florida's school cop not entering the building.
Unfortunately, it makes sense that police departments will not assign their "best & brightest, boldest & most-quick" officers to the mundane job of guarding schools. A problem that hasn't been addressed by those who want to "beef-up" school security.
Per those here who advocate having teachers defend our schools, sure why not, but I think we need to arm select students too.
After all, as Jody laments, the liberals have taken away their rights to defend themselves. However, arm the students who are born & raised to threaten others. Arm the sons of cops & military. Arm the football team. And arm the Young Republicans.
Give them brown shirts, arm-bands, batons, & automatic pistols.
What could go Rong?
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