Cont: Today's Mass Shooting (2)

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Journalist covering Uvalde claim that cops are coordinating with bikers to intimidate and impede those covering the story.

Cops under pressure relying on self-deputized thugs, who would have thought?



When it comes to protecting their own the police find themselves quite ready to go above and beyond the call of duty.

Funerals for children killed in mass shooting continue in grieving Uvalde as police, bikers barricade press

Journalists watching the ceremony from a distance were met with a fleet of police officers and, later, bikers who threatened to arrest them for stepping outside of designated areas across the street. The bikers physically obstructed cameras within those designated areas and followed reporters. One biker club member, who declined to give her name, was part of a group called Guardians of the Children and said they were working with police.

“They asked us to be here,” the woman said.



Other biker clubs in the group included Thin Blue Line LEMC and Marines MC.
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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Funerals-for-children-killed-in-mass-shooting-17215661.php

Cops know the public is focused on their cowardice and abdication of duty during a school shooting, but they also want to remind everyone how much they love coordinating with paramilitaries and street thugs and emboldening them to commit political violence.

Really impressed by the creativity at work. I didn't think they could make themselves look worse, but they're taking bold strides.
 
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plague311 said:
It's funny because when we talk about school shootings the GOP is more than willing to blame video games, fatherless households, etc., but school shooters are generally white. So if white people are the "superior race" how come them whities are unable to handle their emotions as well as other races?
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Oh, duh!

******* don't go to school. They stay home and shoot each other.
 
Rolfe said:
I'm reminded of the gas oven thing, though. Ages ago, household (coal) gas was poisonous. "Putting your head in a gas oven" was a common method of suicide, particularly among the elderly. Then in the 1970s everything was converted to natural (North Sea) gas, which isn't poisonous. The suicide rate among the elderly fell like a stone and as far as I know has never gone back to where it was.

There are other ways of killing yourself than gas ovens. You'd think that someone who was determined would do it anyway. And presumably some did. But it appears that the disappearance of a convenient way to do it really did prevent a significant number of people from killing themselves.
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This. The US sees almost twenty five thousand gun suicides each year. Easy access to firearms negates the 'cool off' period for that impulse.
 
Thermal said:
A cool off might stop a...what are we calling this?...impulse mass murderer(???), but I doubt it will fundemantally fix whatever is so ****** up in their heads that they think mass killing is a peachy keen remedy. Might stop today's mass murder, but tomorrow is another day of untreated psychosis.
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It has the potential to also stop some single victim shooters like the drunk guy pissed off at his neighbor or spouse. And it might stop some suicides.

And what would be the cost? Pretty minimal. So all it has to stop is one death to be worth it.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Journalist covering Uvalde claim that cops are coordinating with bikers to intimidate and impede those covering the story.

Cops under pressure relying on self-deputized thugs, who would have thought?



When it comes to protecting their own the police find themselves quite ready to go above and beyond the call of duty.



https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Funerals-for-children-killed-in-mass-shooting-17215661.php

Cops know the public is focused on their cowardice and abdication of duty during a school shooting, but they also want to remind everyone how much they love coordinating with paramilitaries and street thugs and emboldening them to commit political violence.

Really impressed by the creativity at work. I didn't think they could make themselves look worse, but they're taking bold strides.
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Link is paywalled, but as usual MSN is our friend:

Funerals for children killed in mass shooting continue in grieving Uvalde as police, bikers barricade press

Just when you think people can't go any lower, they will always prove you wrong.
 
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catsmate said:
And how many teachers want to be armed? How many of that number should be armed?
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This is less important than the rhetorical win of asserting you've "done something", combined with a shifting of culpability for the next school shooting in Ohio onto teachers who could have been armed but chose not to be because they are anti-gun, thus putting their liberal political agenda ahead of the actual safety of victims who definitely would have been saved if more staff at the school had been armed.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Journalist covering Uvalde claim that cops are coordinating with bikers to intimidate and impede those covering the story.

Cops under pressure relying on self-deputized thugs, who would have thought?



When it comes to protecting their own the police find themselves quite ready to go above and beyond the call of duty.



https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Funerals-for-children-killed-in-mass-shooting-17215661.php

Cops know the public is focused on their cowardice and abdication of duty during a school shooting, but they also want to remind everyone how much they love coordinating with paramilitaries and street thugs and emboldening them to commit political violence.

Really impressed by the creativity at work. I didn't think they could make themselves look worse, but they're taking bold strides.
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This police department can't even protect a funeral by themselves? I think I see a problem.

Captain_Swoop said:
Report that 5 people have been shot at a funeral in Racine, Wisconsin while they were burying a family member who was shot.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...shooting-wisconsin-cemetery-funeral-rcna31737
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I guess nobody can control a funeral.
 
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Checkmite said:
This is less important than the rhetorical win of asserting you've "done something", combined with a shifting of culpability for the next school shooting in Ohio onto teachers who could have been armed but chose not to be because they are anti-gun, thus putting their liberal political agenda ahead of the actual safety of victims who definitely would have been saved if more staff at the school had been armed.
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And it will be swallowed for a while, until an armed teacher kills someone who really ought not to have been killed.


Of course one such incident will be written off as not significant. But it will happen, and it will happen a couple of times, but sooner or later there will be suicides and murders and somebody might start saying that maybe teachers with guns is a bad idea.
 
The Prince mural is being unveiled downtown tonight, and there's a block party. That area is rather notorious on good days. I might have considered going down there (it's a beautiful evening), but the current climate of danger is too strong (plus a lot of remaining animosity towards this city's cops.)
 
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Rolfe said:
I'm reminded of the gas oven thing, though. Ages ago, household (coal) gas was poisonous. "Putting your head in a gas oven" was a common method of suicide, particularly among the elderly. Then in the 1970s everything was converted to natural (North Sea) gas, which isn't poisonous. The suicide rate among the elderly fell like a stone and as far as I know has never gone back to where it was.

There are other ways of killing yourself than gas ovens. You'd think that someone who was determined would do it anyway. And presumably some did. But it appears that the disappearance of a convenient way to do it really did prevent a significant number of people from killing themselves.
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Interestingly, at least in the US, they keep that information very quiet. That way people try to commit suicide by putting their heads in ovens, aren't successful, and sometimes actually get some help. Though these days that's turned into holding them until they can say they aren't suicidal, handing them some pills, and shoving them out the door. A pretty low bar if you're not floridly delusional.
 
alfaniner said:
The Prince mural is being unveiled downtown tonight, and there's a block party. That area is rather notorious on good days. I might have considered going down there (it's a beautiful evening), but the current climate of danger is too strong (plus a lot of remaining animosity towards this city's cops.)
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I was at Safeway an hour ago and there was an armed security guard there. Made me nervous that maybe there had been threats.

Normally I would just assume they are taking money to the bank or something. I didn't find out why he was there.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I was at Safeway an hour ago and there was an armed security guard there. Made me nervous that maybe there had been threats.

Normally I would just assume they are taking money to the bank or something. I didn't find out why he was there.
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The two public schools in our town have had a police car with a cop stationed in front of them all day every day since the Uvalde shootings. Nothing at the local supermarket though.
 
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