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April 17, 2019 06:36 AM UTC
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Where is the crime:
lives in Florida. Questionable, not illegal.
travels to Colorado. not a crime
buys a gun. not a crime – as far as we know. She just walked into a store and bought it.
sometime, somewhere makes crazy statements that someone is calling a credible threat.
Where is the due process. FBI wants to find her and, I am sure, take her gun.
But she’s just another law abiding citizen on the wrong side of the Justice Department.
During recent th recent red flag debate, this is exactly what the opponents said they feared. Someone who has not been convicted of any crime being pursued to seize her gun (s).
"shall not be infringed"
My ass. Of course she should be detained, and of course her gun (s) seized.
Neither I nor the knuckleheads who opposed the red flag bill get to decide – a judge and the FBI get to decide. If not FBI, CBI. If not CBI – the local sheriff, assuming he or she is competent enough to enforce the law.
She made some threats. General, not specific. Enough to put the schools on lockdown. No crime committed, just protecting the children. OK by you?
Of course.
If she was an 18 year old black man with a flashlight or a cellphone, and had not already been executed, there would be people calling for it.
So we've come to this. A single crazy 18 year old person comes to Colorado, legally buys a gun and ammunition, makes threats to our schools and is able to take virtually the entire state hostage. (Why haven't Aspen schools or Grand Junction schools or Kansas schools closed?) What happens tomorrow or next week or May if she's not found? Maybe she's left the state? This over-reaction begs for crazy copy cats to do similar things when they see what they can accomplish.
I believe we should have put more armed police around the schools. There. Problem solved to the best of our ability in a country where guns and crazy people are allowed to coexist.
There are problems with just bringing more cops into schools. It really increases the number of kids arrested, widening the school-to-prison pipeline, especially for kids of color. And they're really not any more effective at stopping school shootings.
Sometimes the student's offense is nothing more than being mouthy to an adult, or having a problem with authority- like probably 80% of the posters on this site did when they were young.
Having said that, I have admired and liked most of the School Resource Officers I've met – they were truly dedicated individuals with strong community ties and communication skills. And yes, there were also a couple of bad apples – folks I knew used their badge and gun to intimidate and harass youth in schools.
There is no one "silver bullet" (pardon the metaphor) to solve the problem of school shootings.
Seems to me MADCO was writing "ironically". Am I mistaken?
Did you mean "iconically?"
I mean… thanks, but c'mon.
I prefer to be described as just another online poster making snarky, sarcastic posts. There are those better at it than I, but wth, sometimes you don't even have to make it up.
In 1999, when the Columbine shooting happened, the Colorado legislature was considering a change to Colorado gun law. And they went weak, and passed it later when no one was looking that much.
In 2019, the Red Flag law gets serious consideration for exactly this kind of situation. No one predicted that it would be Florida woman – but threatening person taken seriously, and needs to be dearmed. Of course her right to keep and bear should be infringed.
I aspire to irony.
So, schools are closed across the front range due to terrorist threat from someone who was infatuated with Columbine and The Republican Party and the RMGO posts this:
The Barrett M82A1 is for pussies.
Real shooters use this http://www.anzioironworks.com/MAG-FED-20MM-RIFLE.htm
$10 a round. Not going to be doing a whole lot of plinking at that price.
20mm is for wimps. For close in persuasion I much prefer the flame thrower. Plus, it doubles as a cigar lighter.
"I much prefer the flame thrower….." You mean like this?
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
His lips, my God……
He looks like he is getting ready to fellate someone with a small shoe size.