Month: May 2024

Truly they do not care about school protection.

SHOT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Metro Council members are showing Metro Nashville Public Schools support in its decision not to allow teachers or staff to carry guns on campus.

This comes after Governor Bill Lee signed a bill into law which gives districts the “ok” to allow teachers and staff to carry if they so choose.

See the full statement on the issue from MNPS below:

We have a strong relationship with the Metro Nashville Police Department and agree that it is safest for only approved active-duty law enforcement officers to carry weapons on campus. This has been our consistent practice at MNPS, and we have no intention of changing it.

Metro Council shows support to Nashville public schools not allowing school staff to carry (fox17.com)

 

CHASER

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Metro Nashville Police Department may not have enough money to pay officers who respond to school emergencies.

Chief John Drake says they do not have ‘permanent funding’ for Rapid Response Teams and he’s working to secure the necessary funding. Chief Drake said these teams have already made schools safe, and are an added layer of protection to School Resource Officers (SROs)

“My vision for SROs has always been to be more of a social worker, to try to work with kids, try to find out if something is going on at home and if we can help them as well,” Chief Drake explained. “Then having that person in school at that moment when something could happen is a tremendous asset”

Chief Drake defends SROs amid funding issue for MNPD’s Rapid Response Team (wsmv.com)

 

I would laugh at the idiocy, but this means schools will be back to be unprotected.

And about that Rapid Response Team, I guess 90% of their budget will go to teleportation units so they arrive almost instantly the moment a shooter is detected in a school. What do you mean that does not exist? So, it is going to take them real amounts of time to get from wherever they are based to a school in trouble? /end sarcasm.

 

Tuesday Tunes

I was watching Dead Boy Detectives with my lady and wife when a blast from the past showed up as part of the soundtrack.

Yes’s Owner of a Lonely Heart from their album 90125. You can go find it if you wish.

The song got me thinking about some of my old favorites. One of those is Pinball Wizard by The Who.

I learned to play the pinball when I was about 12. When I went to University, they had two pinball machines in each dorm snack shop. Those machines ate 100s of quarters. Back when it was a quarter per game and five balls per game.

This was the soundtrack of those days of playing the silver ball.

I missed the Michael Brown anniversary clown show.

It was not till a bit ago that I saw in my X feed all the “commemorations” about the poor fella from different groups and individuals, some went over as far as cry government cover up at all levels conveniently forgetting that Obama was the President, Holder was the AG and the investigation by DOJ could not make a case against the officer.

But I saved space for this piece of moral contradiction:

I did not know or could not remember about Team Enough. It seems they have been around for a while, but not very successfully.

What made me laugh is that a group touting to mobilize young people to end gun violence is praising a criminal who went after a cop’s gun to commit more gun violence.

Michael Brown had committed violence upon a store owner, but since he did not use a gun, it he has the seal of approval by the Bradys and the Team not Enough brains.

New generation, same old stupidity.