Active shooter situation at school in Parkland, FL; reports of victims

[KittySlayer]

Ok.

Some of you may have noticed that I link the BBC quite a bit.


It boggles my mind how they could come up with "AR-17." I could understand a variant of AR-15/-16/-47 (yes, see that every once in awhile). But AR-17 is just completely wrong.

I blame Jimmy Carter and the Metric system.

 

[Sylvain]

I blame Jimmy Carter and the Metric system.

Some European reporters do have trouble with Imperial measurements and guns.

Since most gun calibers are expressed in milimeters they get confused when some don't end in "mm".

I've seen articles talking about someone being shot with a "45mm" handgun (that would be one huge gun!), instead of a ".45", or "12mm shotguns" instead of "12 gauge".

It would be simplier if all calibers used the metric system.
In Europe a popular name for a .45 is "11.43", same caliber in milimeter.

 

[Dead Duck]

Some European reporters do have trouble with Imperial measurements and guns.

Since most gun calibers are expressed in milimeters they get confused when some don't end in "mm".

I've seen articles talking about someone being shot with a "45mm" handgun (that would be one huge gun!), instead of a ".45", or "12mm shotguns" instead of "12 gauge".

It would be simplier if all calibers used the metric system.
In Europe a popular name for a .45 is "11.43", same caliber in milimeter.

STOP!

MY HEAD WILL EXPLODE......

 

[ChristianPatriot]

With Stoneman Douglas students watching, Florida House declines to take up assault weapons ban - Sun Sentinel

 

[MCgrease08]

With Stoneman Douglas students watching, Florida House declines to take up assault weapons ban - Sun Sentinel

Good.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

With Stoneman Douglas students watching, Florida House declines to take up assault weapons ban - Sun Sentinel

Very nice to see that. Gives me the warm fuzzies.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

With Stoneman Douglas students watching, Florida House declines to take up assault weapons ban - Sun Sentinel

Good. Legislation decided when emotions are high are usually a bad idea.

 

[saintnick81]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.722d92f7b82f

Looks like he is now on board for the bump stock ban and may also support raising the age for purchasing a semi auto to 21. Maybe Not quite the 2nd amendment supporter many thought he was when they voted for him.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Lest you thing we don't have our own wingnuts....

DREHER TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Parents are expressing concern after a church announced it will hold a gun blessing ceremony next week and worshipers are encouraged to bring assault weapons with them.

Pennsylvania church plans to bless worshipers? assault rifles | WGN-TV

If I was a member of that church, I would walk out as soon as the pastors proposed this. A church is about saving souls, and theres no room for competition.

 

[Hop]

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[thunderchicken]

Lest you thing we don't have our own wingnuts....


Pennsylvania church plans to bless worshipers? assault rifles | WGN-TV

If I was a member of that church, I would walk out as soon as the pastors proposed this. A church is about saving souls, and theres no room for competition.

Haven't read the link, but you are right.

 

[bwframe]

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Lets see how this works?

FLORIDA SCHOOL SHOOTING CRISIS ACTOR DAVID HOGG FUDGING HIS LINES

 

[2ADMNLOVER]

Lets see how this works?

FLORIDA SCHOOL SHOOTING CRISIS ACTOR DAVID HOGG FUDGING HIS LINES

People are gonna think you're nuts for posting stuff like this .

People are also perfectly ok with thinking this guy is a "kid" .

Must be a coincidence that this doesn't seem to be his first shooting or that " drills " happen the day of these events .

INGO says correlation doesn't equal causation so it must be fake news .

 

[bwframe]

Micheal Bane's podcast is worth a listen:

Down Range Radio #558: The Florida School Shooting | Down Range TV

He starts into the FL shooting just before 20 minute mark.

He has some very interesting perspectives on some of this stuff.

"Lord of the Flies"

 

[ghitch75]

someone needs to tell these kids you can't buy a AR for $130.00....and some adult needs to tell them the gun laws.....they are not the same as in 1776....

 

[bwframe]

More and more media is pointing out the obvious coaching these kids have had by their anti-gun handlers.

The Administration is acting very smartly, not dismissing these young gullible darlings.

 

[spencer rifle]

After wasting many hours trying to educate zealots and the willfully ignorant on the book of face (and maybe reaching a few yet-open minds), this was my conclusional rant:

RANT: It is getting really tiring defending our Constitutional government and telling the same people the same things over and over again. Strong emotions + ignorance = bad policy. Strong emotions are understandable at the present time. I love my children and hurt for bereaved families. But ignorance? So many can’t tell an assault rifle from an “assault weapon,” “the right of the people” from the enumerated powers of the state, semi-auto from full auto, what’s required when you buy a firearm, the government definition of a machine gun, what a bump stock actually does and how you don’t need one to get the same effect, how the NRA is made up of your neighbors and is not some monolithic evil corporation, that the NRA spends less money and has less influence than unions and progressive PACs, that feet and hands kill way more people than rifles, how difficult, rare and expensive it is to own a full auto firearm, how rarely the current laws are enforced, ad nauseum.


Negotiating from a position of ignorance is not a good place in which to put yourself. You wouldn’t dream of discussing calculus or quantum physics or organic chemistry with a practitioner of these without some knowledge of the subject (unless you are post-modernist; then it seems ignorance is a virtue). Why would you presume to make laws about things you don’t understand? That will not end well.


A fanatic is someone who won’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. I am quite willing to change my mind if the proposed solution will: respect due process, comply with the Constitution, prevent future occurrences, and would have prevented past events if that solution was in place at the time.

 

[KittySlayer]

someone needs to tell these kids you can't buy a AR for $130.00....and some adult needs to tell them the gun laws.....they are not the same as in 1776....

Be patient. The first amendment was not passed to work at the speed of light like your phone. The printers at Google are working as fast as they can and then you will have to wait on the Pony Express to deliver that important information.

 

[T.Lex]

From the BBC - 6 radical ways to address US school shootings!!!!!

You won't BELIEVE number 2!!!!111eleventyone

Six radical ways to tackle US school shootings - BBC News

 

[Gabriel]

From the BBC - 6 radical ways to address US school shootings!!!!!

You won't BELIEVE number 2!!!!111eleventyone

Six radical ways to tackle US school shootings - BBC News

They saved the big one for last.