A promised, I have been trying to do some reading on the  Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission report. Right out of the gate, it has great info.

Since the terms Mass Shootings  and School Shootings have been co-opted to mean whatever political movement are abusing them,  the went with the secret Service and the FBI call a “Targeted Attack”:

“..an attack that was planned for days, weeks or months and serves a purpose and accomplishes an objective set by the attacker. A targeted attack can be directed at a selected individual; however, for the purposes of this report, the definition of targeted attack includes only those attacks that were directed at multiple individuals and towards a school in a general sense.”

Using that very sensible definition makes sense. We have seen how Gun Control has included Non-school incidents in their “lists” of school shootings such as drug related shootings happening at night when there are no classes, students or staff. If you want to fix something, you need to shed the bullcrap and target the real issue, not what political operators think they can get away with it. So, from the hundreds of “school shootings’ the Opposition keep blasting about in the last 20 years (or even one year as the screen cap shows), we come down to a realistic number.

Targeted attacks can be divided into insider threats and outsider threats. The Department of Homeland Security defines an insider threat as one or more individuals with the access and/or inside knowledge that would allow them to exploit the vulnerabilities of an entity’s security and systems with the intent to cause harm. Among the 46 targeted attacks reviewed, 33 of the attackers were students and 10 were former students (insiders). Only five attacks were initiated by strangers (outsiders). Even more telling was that all middle school attacks were by insiders and all but one of high school attacks were by insiders. Only at the elementary school level were the majority of attacks committed by outsiders.
The age of attackers aligned well with the insider designation. Attackers ranged in age from 11 to 56 years-old. Thirty-four (34) of the attackers were 14 through 19 years-old.

Six (6) attackers were 13 years-old or less, and six (6) attackers were 32 to 56 years-old.

To use a cliché, it is the enemy within we should fear. And how about those evil black rifles?

The type of weapon utilized varied. Semi-automatic pistols, semi-automatic rifles and shotguns collectively made up the majority of weapons. Semi-automatic pistols were the most frequently used weapon. In some cases, explosive devices were also used along with weapons, but with limited success. It should be noted that in two cases, easily obtained, easily concealed edged weapons were used by insiders with success. Since most attackers could not legally purchase the weapons utilized, the source of the weapons is a relevant factor. Fifty percent of the weapons were stolen from parents or relatives. All attackers, ages 11 through 15, obtained their weapons by stealing them from parents or relatives. Beginning at age 16, ownership of weapons begins to emerge among the attackers. Some theft from relatives and parents continues in this age group up through 19. Beginning at age 18, legal ownership becomes predominant. However, in the case of the attackers at Columbine two of the weapons were illegally purchased. In another case,
an adult with a felony record constructed a semi-automatic rifle from parts he obtained.

Scared cows already being slaughtered. I am sure I will find some from my herd also sacrificed in the altar of eliminating misconception and not politics.

I’ll continue reading the report and trying to bring you what I find interesting or revealing. I want to see what was found and what led to their conclusions, including the controversial arming of the teachers which is hated by the Left and Usual Suspects in general.

A federal judge last Wednesday dismissed Broward School and Sheriff’s officials, as well as Broward County itself, from a lawsuit filed by 15 students who say the Feb. 14 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland caused them psychological injury and severe trauma.

But the judge did allow a portion of the suit to go forward against former school resource deputy Scot Peterson – though not for actions taken or not taken in connection to the attack.

The lawsuit, filed in July by the 15 survivors, named as defendants Peterson, now-resigned Capt. Jan Jordan, Sheriff Scott Israel, as well as Broward Schools superintendent Robert Runcie, now-dismissed school monitor Andrew Medina and Broward County government.

They claimed their civil and due process rights were violated by the defendants’ failure to protect them from school shooters.

Federal Judge Dismisses Shooting Related Claims by Marjory Stoneman Douglas Survivors

Not unexpected. Do you wonder if the lawyers ever sat down and explained to their clients this was a fool’s errand? Or is this a case where the lawyers simply did not care and knowingly re allowing their clients to spend their money on an unwinnable task?  have seen this before with the Bradys, right?

Report of Fidel Castro dying at least twice a year, were a common thing. But I can’t but laugh at his tomb. It was like somebody said: “OK, we are burying the sumbitch and let’s put a huge boulder on top to keep him buried. And armed guards just if he defeats the boulder and we need to shoot his communist zombie ass.”

I watch these Uber/Lyft videos because they are both entertaining and educational.  This one is no different and it shows an unnecessary escalation to a possible assault with a deadly weapon.

The Youtuber titles the video “Violent lyft passengers werent expecting a crazy mf driver” except the passenger (besides being assholes and verbally abusive, never presented a reasonable threat of death or grave bodily harm for the driver to pull out a knife.

According to the driver, Lyft permanently deactivated him. He says it is because the video because the company asked him to take it down and he refused. I would have taken it down because it is possible evidence of assault with a deadly weapon. If you are stupid enough to play tough guy for YouTube and give authorities the evidence, you deserve a nice quiet Christmas Holiday  at the county lock up.

It seems that today’s theme is Avoidance, Deterrence and De-Escalation.

Joe in PNG left a comment on my last AOC post that got me thinking.

Now imagine you’re a 20 something with a six figure student loan debt and a masters degree in the Semiotics of Trans-Post Feminist Intersectional Basket Weaving in Queer Literature. You don’t have a real job, as you have the habit of writing “F^%$& The Patriarchy!” on every space on every job application you have ever filled out.

I love the book World War Z.

One of my favorite scenes is from the end of the book.  I forget which chapter it is, but the author is interviewing someone talking about the war time recovery.

In one particular instant, the interviewee is telling a story about a rich woman who was rude to her instructor, calling her by her first name.  As it turns out, the instructor was the woman’s former cleaning lady.  So many of the upper crust of pre-war society had no useful skills beyond brokering favors and maybe fondling money.

When the zombies came and the economy crashed, all of their power evaporated overnight.

They had to be retrained, and most of them were so worthless at even the most rudimentary tasks, they had to be given crash courses in how to properly clean a toilet so they could serve some function in society.

I think so many of the social and economic problems that young people in particular and the US (or the Western World as a whole) in general has is that we are approaching the tipping point where those steeped in Trans-Post Feminist Intersectionality education outnumber those who won’t have to be taught how to scrub a toilet when the zombies attack.

Recently, a news story broke about Millennials taking adulting classes.

Millennials lacking life skills – like cooking, budgeting, or time management – are now signing up for classes designed to teach them those basics. These are crash courses in Adulting. pic.twitter.com/EzzR54758k

— KDKA (@KDKA) December 13, 2018

The great Iowahawk Tweeted a very insightful thread about this.

He’s right.  Good for the Millennials who know their shortcomings and are trying to overcome.

I will be the first to admit I am far from perfect.  I am a homeowner.  I am having to learn all sorts of home repairs to do my own upkeep.

I hope and pray that for these kids, as they learn one skill, they get the inclination to learn another and another until they crest the hill into self sufficiency.

What worries me is the number of Trans-Post Feminist Intersectionality majors who don’t want to learn to cut an onion or unclog a drain and will vote for the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who will promise them pre-packaged diced onions and single payer plumbing services as a right to insulate them against any inconvenience or self sufficiency.

You don’t have to experience a zombie apocalypse to see this in action.  Just watch Miami after a hurricane.  The people who can clean up and fix their own stuff vs. the people who have to pay a contractor for everything.

It might be best for society if rather than read Wuthering Heights in high school, kids read World War Z.

Maybe the best shift we could have in society is getting kids to think about the question: “if the Zombies (or any other disaster – natural, man made, or economic) happen, am I going to be the kind of person that has to go to a government camp to teach me to clean a toilet because I have absolutely no useful skill in society?”

I can only dream of a day when parent averts their eyes and stares down at their shoes and mumbles some noncommittal response in shame that their child chose to go Harvard to be a Women’s Studies major instead of becoming a machinist or electrician like they wanted.

When you push for a medical recommendation to become law, you are essentially trying to make the entire nation your involuntary patient. When doctors put on their white coats in political discourse and recommend authoritarian policies, they’re acting outside the scope of their expertise — and trying to force their opinions on millions of unwilling subjects.

The idea of informed consent is paramount to medical practice. As doctors, we should never force our therapy on our patients. Not only is this immoral, but the results can be deadly.

For decades, medical professionals have advised low fat, high carb diets, which studies increasingly show is completely misguided. Had this been just advice from doctors to their patients, that would be one thing. Instead, with the government’s support this advice was established as indisputable fact and taught to an entire generation. The result has been to kick off a diabetes epidemic that’s set to make my generation the first in American history to have shorter life expectancies than their parents.

Should doctors stay in their lane? A physician says yes.

A very well-written article and one you should share if you happen to bump into an activist doctor along with the reminder that doctors kill a quarter of a million people a year in the US.

My wife brought this case to my attention.  Discussion of it has been going around her workplace, and libraries and library internet boards across the country.

Library supervisor, 41, gunned down in parking lot months after altercation with suspect, police say

A disturbance at a Northern California library in October may have led to this week’s shooting death of a 41-year-old library supervisor as she sat in her car outside the building Tuesday evening, police say.

Amber Clark was shot several times in the face and head outside the North Natomas Public Library, FOX 40 Sacramento reported.

That is horrible.

Librarians are generally a liberal bunch, so as you can imagine, a lot of the outrage has been centered around gun control.

These same people always seem to overlook that this shooting took place in California.

We see this all the time.  A shooting will occur in California, Chicago, New York City, some place with all or nearly all the gun control rules that the Left claims that they want.  Then they immediately jump over the fact that their publicly desired gun control failed, and push for more gun control.

But the California angle is not the only important fact in this tragedy.

The Sacramento Police Department reports a man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing a librarian in North Natomas Tuesday night.

Around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, less than 12 hours after the shooting, Ronald Seay, 56, was arrested in the area of Elverta following a brief police chase, according to the police department. He is in custody on suspicion of murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Seay is suspected of shooting 41-year-old Amber Clark several times in the parking lot of the North Natomas Public Library, where she worked as branch supervisor. The police department reports Clark was targeted by Seay.

On Oct. 13, Sacramento Police Sgt. Vance Chandler reports Seay caused a disturbance at the library. Clark was working at the time and interacted with Seay during the incident. Officers responded and issued a no-trespass order to Seay.

Chandler reports Seay lived within miles of the shooting and had moved there months ago from out of state.

Ms. Clark was shot on December 11.  Ronald Seay was banned from the Library with a no trespass order almost two months earlier on October 13.

That means that Seay waited two months to return to the Library to shoot Ms. Clark.

This man had two months to prepare, what looks to be a revenge killing.

Is there any reasonable person who honestly believes that some new gun control law would have prevented this?

Possibly.  Remember that question 11.h. on Form 4473 covers restraining orders related to intimate partner violence.

11.h. Are you subject to a court order restraining you form harassing, stalking, or threatening your child or an intimate partner or child of such partner?

So a no trespass order against a public library isn’t a disqualifying offense on a 4473.

California law is a little different.  On the California DOJ list of Firearms Prohibiting Categories, it lists:

Any person who is subject to a temporary restraining order or an injunction issued pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure sections 527.6 or 527.8, a protective order as defined in Family Code section 6218, a protective order issued pursuant to Penal Code sections 136.2 or 646.91, or a protective order issued pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 15657.03

Section 527.6 covers a wide range of restraining orders beyond the intimate partner violence covered by Federal law.

IANAL so I am not sure if a no trespass order for a library makes a person prohibited by California law.

Nevertheless, this man waited two months to attack the librarian that he associated with getting him banned.

Given this patience in plotting this act, I sincerely do not believe that another gun control law would have prevented this man from committing this type of act.

I have not seen any news indicating that the trespass order had expired, so I don’t know if he waited until he could go back to the library to kill Ms. Clark, or if it just took him this long to stew over it to the point of murder.

What I do know is that this shows how a protective order is just a piece of paper and is only as effective as the person who that order is written against thinks it is.