I saw this Tweet from Shannon Watts:

We don’t have to live this way. Vote wisely: https://t.co/IQGlNEFqf1 https://t.co/vEiRM9DS2u

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 17, 2018

First things first:

We need to have a serious discussion in this country about why school shootings are occurring.  What is it about current popular culture, parenting, child raising, bureaucratic action, and everything else that I can’t think of that causes kids to go these rampages.

I hear from the gray beards at work how back in the day, they used to leave guns in their cars in the school parking lots if they went hunting before class or shooting after school.  So clearly teens having access to guns isn’t the limiting factor here.

I get that Shannon wants you to vote for anti-gun politicians because she is of the intractable cult mindset that if you just banned AR-15’s school shootings will dry up.

Now on to part two:

The article this she is referencing is this:

Delco teachers’ lesson: barricades, active shooters and classroom hiding places

When Noelle Newton started her career as a counselor a decade ago, back-to-school preparations meant decorating classrooms and reviewing procedures for the after-school pickup line.

But on Wednesday afternoon, she prepped for the start of the new school year by learning how to barricade a classroom door while an “active shooter” — actually another teacher with a nerf gun — tried to force her way in. In the next drill, Newton and the other teachers threw tennis balls, symbolizing staplers or books, to try and stun the mock killer.

“It’s sad, really sad,” said Newton, who works at Marple Newtown’s Loomis Elementary School in Delaware County. But she said she’s glad she’s prepared because the threat of violence is “something that scares me every day.”

From breaking a choke hold to stanching the blood from a gunshot wound, the two-day Teacher Safety Workshop offered up a realistic if unrelentingly grim glimpse into threats increasingly faced by America’s teachers in the post-Parkland era. The workshop drew about 75 educators and was sponsored by Delaware County District Attorney Katayoun M. Copeland and state Sen. Tom McGarrigle.

This is the cognitive dissonance I was talking about.

They acknowledge that the threat of school shooters is real.  They want combat school shooters by throwing staplers and books, and with choke holds.

They refuse to put more armed people in school.  They refuse to let teachers with CCW permits carry in school.  They want me to believe that at classroom distance (25 yards) it’s unreasonable to expect someone with a handgun to take on a shooter with an AR-15.  Yet, they are going to train to take down the same asshole with an AR-15 with staplers.

It is acceptable to load your school approved self defense weapon with Swingline but not Golden Saber.

They are training to fight with ineffective tools because the effective ones are “bad.”

That’s insanity.

Just found out that Kevin from The Smallest Minority is having serious health issues.

Please direct your generosity to his GoFundMe page. This is from his daughter Jessica.

A little about my fabulous father. This is a man who took me under his wing when I was 15 years old. I was a troubled teen and he still provided the best care and attention that any teen could ask for. He taught me how to enjoy cars, how to drive, how to change a tire, how to check my tire pressure and gun safety/shooting. A lot of survival skills that many aren’t blessed to be taught. All have had a huge impact on my life.

Fast forward to more current times. His health in the past few months started to decline rapidly. He had previously been diagnosed with porphyria. They then found Cirrhosis of the liver (hereditary). Later they found a bleeding ulcer in which he became very anemic. His liver condition is progressing at a high rate of speed to the point that he has now become very confused and cannot even use the technology that he needs in order to perform his work. He has exhausted his paid time off due to this. He keeps saying that he doesn’t need help but he is a very stubborn individual who doesn’t like burdening others with his problems and is too proud to ask for help. So here I am.

I just saw this over 90 Miles:

Are we still doing this stuff in school?  I remember back in the prehistorical ages when I was a kid in elementary school and we go typed. It was a nice thing watching the little kit come up with the answer and we were issued a card by the Red Cross rep. For the rest of the school year, we were supposed to carry our card, tell on demand our blood type and show the card to confirm. The result was that we had the type ingrained to the point it has been an automatic  response ever since.

The optional thing was learning who you can donate to and who could donate to you. Mine being O Positive was simple: I can give to everybody except the Negatives and I can get only from O Pos and O Neg.

One of the things I thought when I got to my majority was to get a tattoo with my blood type in my arm, only to find out that the fuckers of the Wafffen-SS had done it and that kinda soured the idea. That and the fact that I do not like being stung by a needle several hundred times a minute put the whole idea in the waste basket.

One of the most underrated romantic songs from my youth.

Fifth Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenges to “Campus Carry”
Texas, like some other states, allows law-abiding adults who have concealed carry licenses to carry at public universities as well as elsewhere; this was challenged on First Amendment, Second Amendment, and Equal Protection Clause grounds.

As with anything Eugene Volokh writes, it is amazingly explanatory and it is a joy to see that the Fifth Circuit handed a legal spanking to the three Liberal Arts Professors from the University of Texas who brought the case to court.  Believe it or not, the following was one of the arguments presented to the court:

Glass contends that to the extent the Second Amendment recognizes an individual right to carry firearms, persons not carrying arms have a right to the practice being well-regulated.

Yeah, that dumb.

And as usual, you can read the original court decision here.

(Owed Hat Tip Goes Here)

The Waffle House sign is the perfect background. And yes, it is a real company in Arkansas.

Hat Tip Sal F.

RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. —
A North Carolina sheriff’s office says a teenager shot and killed a man who was strangling her mother.
The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said on its Facebook page that 46-year-old Steven Kelley was assaulting Chandra Nierman Aug. 8 at a home in Forest City where they lived with her three children.

“During the assault, the deceased male was yelling that he was going to cut Nierman’s throat and kill everyone in the house,” a release stated.
The sheriff’s office said the woman’s 12-year-old son got a gun and handed it to his 15-year-old sister, who shot Kelley in the chest.

Sheriff: 15-year-old daughter shoots, kills her mother’s abusive boyfriend

This is the type of case that will be ignored by most of the Big Media because it goes against the Holy Gun Control Writ: Children got an unsecured gun in a home with domestic violence history and  used to stop the violent partner and save lives.

According to the article, the “deceased male” was a violent felon and with two orders of protection against him from two different women.

The children won’t be charged.

It was a good outcome out of a bad situation.