In an apparent suicide message received minutes before the rampage, 28-year-old assailant Audrey Elizabeth Hale wrote an Instagram note to a former school basketball teammate that also declared: “I’m planning to die today.”
Not enough time for police to intervene but still a warning.
Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the school shooter Monday decided against attacking another school because it had “too much security.”
The revelation during a press conference Tuesday rekindled the debate about having armed officers at schools across the United States.
Trust her/him; it knows where not to go murdering. It also suggests its rage was not specific to this school which zhe attended.
When you have a very small population (500 people) even a small number of incidents can produce an atypical rate per 100,000 people. Over a period of several years, these atypical events tend to even out. I suspect that there is a statistical term for describing this analytical problem. Do you know the term?
The shooter who stormed a private Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday, killing three students and three staffers, was identified as a 28-year-old white transgender woman named Audrey Hale who once attended the school, authorities said.
The left spin besides the obvious: "If they had just accepted her transness back then, this would never have happened." Perhaps if they had not messed with his identity and hormones he/she/evil might not have taken this revenge.
The only good news: the police did not pull a Uvalde. They did what they are paid to do, risk life and limb for public safety.
I get phishing attempts by text every few days claiming to be from FedEx. Today's was from a Cremation Service. When I opened two boxes on my doorstep they were ashes boxes for my wife and I. We signed up with Neptune Society a few days ago. I knew our ashes would be delivered in these very elegant boxes, but their arrival now caused me to think of Isaac Asimov's famous science paper parody: "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" Astounding Science Fiction (1948)
What if we do not die? (Yes, my wife considers me a hopeless optimist.) Where will we store them? Will our kids know where they are?
The Flynn effect – named after the work of Kiwi intelligence researcher James Flynn – observed rapid rises in intelligence quotient at a rate of about 3 IQ points per decade in the 20th century, but new research suggests these heady boom days are long gone."
IQs are dropping 7 points per generation both in Norway and Britain since the 1970s.
This is even happening within families so it is not the Idiocracy syndrome.
Transcripts of the trial of Timothy McVeigh.
I am glad that he confessed before execution. I found reasonable doubt reading the transcripts. His defense attorney was spectacular. The government's case was full of holes. The leftover leg and the retired Northern Ireland Medical Examiner's description of an IRA bombing that was premature and left eight torsos and nine penises was pretty amazing.
Working from the Ammoland description:
One of President Biden’s stated goals is universal background checks. To get closer to his goal, he will order the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to change the definition of someone engaged in the business of selling firearms. Most states allow gun owners to sell their firearms through private transactions without paying a federal firearms licensee (FFL) to transfer the gun.
The courts will never uphold a single sale as requiring an FFL unless done for the purpose of making a profit or to a disqualified person. Do not sell a gun to anyone unless they have a carry permit. (This is already common by private sellers in Idaho.) Make a copy.
The second action the White House is taking is launching a public relations campaign to educate the public on the use of Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO). ERPO, also known as “red flag laws,” strips gun owners of their firearms rights in an ex parte hearing where the gun owner cannot defend their rights. Many believe these laws are a violation of due process. Biden wants to educate people on how to file for ERPOs to increase the number of red flag orders issued.
Only some states have ERPO laws.
The Biden Administration is also asking the Department of Transportation to work with shippers to cut down on stolen firearms and speed up the reports of missing shipments. This request could mean new regulations on firearms shipments or new requirements for shipping firearms. Many gun owners worry about changes since Congress has been putting immense pressure on shipping companies leading some to change policies that have made it more expensive to ship guns.
Because thefts from common carriers are already a big source for criminally misused guns, this does not seem unreasonable. When I was an FFL, UPS left a shotgun on my doorstep in an apartment building. Requiring signatures is not that hard and might simplify catching UPS employees stealing guns as has been a problem in some cities.
Biden vowed to crack down on “rogue” FFLs, and the ATF revocation of FFLs is up 500% since Biden took office. The White House will now require the ATF to release information on FFLs violations publicly. Many see this as a war on the gun industry.
Go ahead. Many of the revocations will be exposed as harassment; some will show improper actions. Shame those people.
Biden will also use the Department of Defense (DOD) acquisition of firearms to attack the gun industry. It isn’t clear what he means, but this could mean putting stipulations in government contracts with firearms companies to prevent the sale of certain firearms to the public. He is also ordering the Federal Trade Commission to investigate “military imagery” used in the advertisement of guns.
How many commercial vendors have military contracts? Not many. The advertising issue is not entirely without merit. Most responsible gun owners know what an AR-15 rifle is for; those who do not are probably not people we should encourage. It is bad enough that the dying legacy news media are telling unstable sorts what gun to use when they go out in a storm of infamy.
Biden is playing the gun banners; he is going to need a lot of money for 2024.
Good article by John Lott pointing out that Biden wants to impose California's current laws that work SO WELL on the rest of us.
It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility under the rug — to “move on” without ever acknowledging that I was duped, and that as a result I made mistakes in judgement, and that these mistakes, multiplied by the tens of thousands and millions on the part of people just like me, hurt millions of other people like you all, in existential ways."
Police in El Paso, Texas say that a "licensed-to-carry" bystander shot the alleged gunman who is accused of killing one person and injuring another three.
The suspect, a 16-year-old Hispanic male, is accused of shooting the individuals after a "confrontation ensued" between two groups at Cielo Vista Mall on Wednesday evening at 5:05 p.m.
The El Paso Police Department said the confrontation eventually escalated into a "physical fight," and the 16-year-old pulled out a handgun, fatally shooting Angeles Zaragoza, 17, and injuring another 17-year-old and 15-year-old.
Police say that Emanuel Duran, 32, who is a licensed-to-carry holder, shot the suspect as he was pointing his gun toward the direction of more bystanders....
Investigators learned there were "at least" two more people who were legally armed, but weren't involved in the shooting.
It works pretty well, but for this book, I am glad I bought a fast PC.
The newest conspiracy theory: hot off the paranoia press. (My wife heard it from a friend.) The U.S. sends thousands of those balloons aloft to control us. It is not the fault of CNN, Fox, ABC, or the general ignorance of most Americans, it is the balloons.
From gunpolicy.org:
“Harmless” .22 calibre Rabbit Rifles Kill More People Than Any Other Type of Gun Contrary to their popular image as low-powered “bunny guns,” .22-calibre rimfire rifles are commonly used in multiple shootings. In seven recent mass(1) killings involving .22 rifles in Australia and New Zealand alone, 54 people died by gunfire
Yes, they are setting up to ban rimfires. But it makes you wonder how many semiautomatic mass murders in the U.S. involve rimfire rifles, which are generally exempted from A/W bans. Yes, paranoid schizophrenic used a Ruger 10/22 to murder 3 and wound 7. There seem to be a lot of Ruger 10/22s used. Cascade Mall.
The poll—conducted between January 28 and 29 among a sample of 1,500 eligible U.S. voters—found 52 percent of respondents supported the imposition of a maximum age requirement for the purchase of firearms.
Among these, 20 percent of respondents thought the age limit should be set at 60, while 16 percent said that it should be set at 70."
So too young to buy a gun and too old?
Someone broken into an FBI agent's car and stole seven guns, including two submachines. Does anyone have a reputable news source on this?
Thanks. DuckDuckGo seems better at finding these. I also found local police losing submachine guns to theft and the U.S. military unable to find grenades, M4s and Beretta pistols (some after being used in crimes 600 miles away from where inventory showed them)
“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools,” Adams said to applause from hundreds of religious leaders gathered at an annual event in Manhattan.
Adams was discussing the role that people who attend synagogues, churches, Sikh temples and mosques could play in reducing societal ills from homelessness to domestic violence.
"Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body, church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies,” Adams said."
From N.J.'s brief defending their requirement of affirmative consent from private property owners for licensees.
Left out is that the law provides:“New Orleans in 1816, Ex. 7, prohibited “any person to enter into a public ball-room with any … weapon.”
Article 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to enter into a public ball-room with any cane, stick, sword or any other weapon , and every person having either a cane, stick, sword, or any other weapon, shall, before he enter the ball-room , deposit the same at the office which shall be at the door of the entrance of said ball-room, where there will be a person appointed to receive and take care of such articles, which he shall carefully keep, affixing to each article a number, a check of which be shall give to the owner ; and said articles shall not be returned to the persons respectively depositing them, until said persons are quitting the ball , and produce their checks.[1][emphasis added]
Mass shootings targeting LGBTQ spaces and a rise in anti-trans rhetoric have inspired some queer people to take up arms. New Hampshire Public Radio's Todd Bookman joined the monthly gathering of a gun group that sees firearms as key to their own self-defense. And as you might imagine, the story does include the sound of gunfire.
TODD BOOKMAN, BYLINE: On a recent Sunday morning, the parking lot of Pawtuckaway State Park in southeastern New Hampshire is filling up with hikers. There's also a different crew packing up warm clothes and weapons.
FIN SMITH: Thank you all for coming to Rainbow Reload.
BOOKMAN: Today's organizer is Fin Smith. Like everybody else in this story, they've requested some level of anonymity because they fear for their safety.
SMITH: I recognize the temperature is freezing, and this is not the most comfortable, but if it's raining, we're training. If it's snowing, we're going.
BOOKMAN: Groups like Rainbow Reload exist around the country, often called pink pistol clubs. It's a place for experts and the gun-curious to practice and improve their shooting, but this goes beyond hobby. There's a practical goal here, to prepare and protect themselves.
SMITH: If the world is dangerous, then you have to be dangerous back. And that very much has pushed me into where I am now.
LGBTQWTF and drag shows for children bug me, but everyone has a right to be left alone. Sometimes, shooting back is the only to fix that.
Over at Quora, a question and answer:
Absolutely. All of my guns are very well behaved and pose no threat to me at all. I raised most of them from when they were little derringers. They are well trained and highly disciplined. I have to admit though that one of them sassed me one day. I put it to bed that night without any ammo and it hasn’t caused any problems since.
Three shootings with multiple victims shook California over the last few days. The shootings Monday at two farms in Half Moon Bay, Calif., closely followed a massacre over the weekend at a dance hall in Monterey Park, Calif.
That's no surprise, say scientists who study mass shootings. Research shows that these incidents usually occur in clusters and tend to be contagious. Intensive media coverage seems to drive the contagion, the researchers say.
Back in 2014 and 2015, researchers at Arizona State University analyzed data on cases of mass violence. They included USA Today's data on mass killings (defined as four or more people killed using any means, including guns) from 2006 to 2013, data on school shootings between 1998 and 2013, and mass shootings (defined as incidents in which three people were shot, not necessarily killed) between 2005 and 2013 collected by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The lead researcher, Sherry Towers, a faculty research associate at Arizona State University, had spent most of her career modeling the spread of infectious diseases — like Ebola, influenza and sexually transmitted diseases. She wanted to know whether cases of mass violence spread contagiously, like in a disease outbreak....
"What we found was that for the mass killings — so these are high-profile mass killings where there's at least four people killed — there was significant evidence of contagion," says Towers. "We also found significant evidence of contagion in the school shootings."
In other words, school shootings and other shootings with four or more deaths spread like a contagion — each shooting tends to spark more shootings.
"So one happens and you see another few happen right after that," says Jillian Peterson, a criminologist at Hamline University in Minnesota and founder of the nonpartisan think tank, The Violence Project. She wasn't involved in the Arizona State research but has found similar patterns in her own research.
Towers and her colleagues also found that what set apart shootings that were contagious was the amount of media coverage they received. "In the incidences where there were four or more people killed, and even school shootings, those tended to get national and even international media attention," says Towers.
Can we ban "assault media"? Obviously not.
Boston, Massachusetts
A patient in a psychiatric center near the Massachusetts General Hospital stabbed his doctor this afternoon before being shot dead by an off-duty security guard, police said.
The physician is in stable condition, Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said at a press conference this afternoon as he described a chaotic scene.
A relative said the victim was Dr. Astrid Desrosiers, a Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist who worked at the center. Isabellie Desrosiers, Desrosiers' sister-in-law, said she had been told by Desrosiers' sister that Astrid had been shot. Police identified the patient late this afternoon as 37-year-old Jay Carciero of Reading.
The actions of the security guard, who does not work at the hospital, were hailed as "heroic" by Bonnie Michelman, head of security for Massachusetts General Hospital
Thanks one of you found it.
Mentally ill patient starts rampage in hospital. Psychiatrist draws from desk drawer, stops the incident. Pittsburgh? Does anyone remember?
Some years ago, I recall a suit involving a same-sex wedding reception to be held in a facility in Delaware or New Jersey. The facility was owned by the United Methodist Church (or at least one UMC church) and they refused to rent the facility for a same-sex marriage. (Yes, the UMC refusing that surprised the heck out of me.) Can anyone point me to that suit?
They have a 4.08% yield to worst and the dividends are exempt from federal and state income tax. Idaho is unlikely to go bankrupt. Yes that is unlikely to match inflation over the next few years, but it is a very low-risk investment.
Attorneys in Rhode Island and New Jersey have hired me to help. And I am working cases in California, Oregon, Illinois, and (sort of) Georgia.
In a book about frontier life:
“When a boy, he went coon hunting one night, accompanied by two hounds, a cur, and a small fice."
What is a fice? Google did not know.
It was briefly news. A guy with an AR-15 shot and killed one person before a civilian took a 20 yard shot and disabled the shooter.
Found it!
I need this article http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article202486304.html
Never mind. I bought the $1 starter subscription.
For some reason, Blogger will not let me embed this guy swapping black powder revolver cylinders.
Pollard's History of firearms (1983). I need an image of p. 210. Oregon State at Corvallis has it. I need this as part of killing Measure 114.
Thanks to all. It turns out to be scanned in full.
There is a web page The item labelled source volume which is supposed to have a link to this.
I have changed the page locally then used FileZilla to upload the whole page. ]
FileZilla shows the file transferred okay, but when I reload the page, my change does not appear to be there.
Never mind: Pilot error.
You laugh but while producing an expert declaration for a Highland Park, Ill. case, I found that in the three years before the 14th Amendment incorporated the Second Amendment against the states, Winchester was advertising its repeater as two shots per second. That is 120 shots per minute, comparable to an AR-15, perhaps very slightly slower. Hence, YouTube is now awash in tactical lever action videos.
But an AR-15 is magazine fed. The Winchester lever actions were only 18 rounds. That's okay, you can buy lever action speedloaders on Amazon.
Here is a homemade one in use.
Yes, it is time. A few of the odd collections of stocks that I own still have high yields, like PVL with a 15.92% yield, but some of the others have taxable yields higher than the tax-exempt municipal bonds. Time to take those behind the barn and shoot 'em.
I am waiting for some sell transactions to complete but Id Hlth Fac Auth Rev REV 3% 03/01/2051 Callable has a yield to worst of 4.393% first callable in 2032, by which point I may not care. Remember that is exempt from both federal and Idaho income tax. That is equivalent to 6.56% taxable income in my marginal tax bracket and is safer than almost any stock. Reducing taxes to the most wastrel entity that taxes me is a win as well.
The market is rising today, so I may do this over several days.
For several years, my wife had no health insurance. Being disabled, I had Medicare and I purchased a Medicare Advantage plan from Blue Cross of Idaho, which covers all the stuff Medicare does not (which is really anything that does not put you in the hospital). It is about $60/month, on top of the $160 or so held back from my disability check to pay for Medicare coverage. This has turned out to be cheaper and better coverage than my last employer health insurance at State of Idaho, which I thought was pretty good. Deductibles are utterly reasonable. This should tell you how much of medical insurance is covering catastrophes.
My wife, until recently, stayed home to take care of me, which past the first six months after the stroke seemed unnecessary, but it was nice to have the company. But what about insurance? Obamacare, as many of its fans soon discovered, was hideously expensive with annual deductibles of $5000 typically. Private insurance alternatives were no better. (And that was the goal.)
If you are a professing Christian, Christian Healthcare Ministries may be a solution. They operate on the New Testament model of Christians looking out for each other. You pay a fixed amount each month, sort of like a insurance premium. Any incident, meaning an accident or disease problem that exceeds $500 they cover the costs. You are encouraged to pay upfront to get the cash discount, which is typically 10% off; in a few cases, this has been 50% off. That $500 is not a deductible; my wife's clear-cell carcinoma treatment was paid in full, because getting above $500 was no problem. She went back every six months, then every year for follow-up visits and each was reimbursed in full. (This is all one incident as far as CHM is concerned.)
Even if you have insurance, this may be good if you have a high deductible. Medicare has a $750 deductible for hospital stays and $250 for inpatient procedures (like the hernia repair a couple years ago). CHM covered that $750 deductible.
Now that my wife is working and has health insurance, not quite as generous as my Medicare Advantage plan, we dropped her from CHM. We can add her back in at any time. Because of the Medicare deductibles I have stayed on CHM for $123 per month. It may not make sense, because six months of CHM is one hospital stay deductible, but this makes it easy to add my wife back in, if needed. And it is nice to know that I am helping out other Christians using CHM.
Why so cheap? CHM does not cover addiction treatment, mental illness, abortion, or STD treatment. Except for mental illness, these are largely consequences of behaviors that professing Christians should not be doing; mental illness treatment can be hideously expensive. Imagine what our society would spend on healthcare without substance abuse and promiscuity.
Back when you were required to have health insurance or pay a tax each year, CHM was considered health insurance even though for legal reasons, they must insist that they are not.
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