To know that school shootings are beginning to let up.

It was considered an active shooting when this article first went up though & it sounds like someone has been shot & transported to a local hospital

In cases where the first statement from police is "there wasn't an active shooter"

Like in this case.

God I love the internet. In a single comment we jumped from "alien robot insect" to "engine module" lol. Like jumpin from mysticism to aeronautics instantly.

Important to note that the couple did not act alone. The were able to starve and torture this 5 year old with the eager assistance of Judge Darla Williamson, who protected the couple from legal consequence.

Diamonds are great for industrial purposes though!

Fuck, I actually meant Columbine - that was the one in the '90s, right? Sandy Hook was later. The '90s one.

Like 20 seconds after this article got posted they updated the first sentence on the article:

>School officials at Forsyth Tech Community College in North Carolina briefly reported an active shooter incident Thursday before police said that was not the case.

Funny how like 80 different news outlets jumped on it. Gotta get them clicks for $$$$

This "jump to report first" shit is worse than the 24 hour news cycle.

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Most of them, Jefferson especially, would be confused as hell as to why we are so doggedly trying to maintain the late 18th century version of a law, when the document was explicitly written in such a way as to make it updatable to changing political and social attitudes.

In fact, artificial diamonds can be made consistently superior.

Columbine, tbh.

The UK clamped down with the Hungerford Massacre and then outright banmed handguns following the school shooting in Dunblane, the UK's only school shooting.

The Australians fixed things after Port Arthur.

It shouldn't reallt take more than one to mend the issue. By Sandy Hook, the US had already made its decision, it was already too late.

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Are these headlines trying to warn us or numb us?

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Spring break and summer holidays?

We were talking at work that evening and basically said "this was fucking horrible, now at least something will get done - after all, it took us until Dunblane to actually put some solid stuff into action, so now the US will act. Shame it came to this, what a waste. Never again though; they'll put something through over there."

Yeah nah, we were naïve as fuck.

 

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On one of my first trips out to sea on the Abraham Lincoln we were prepping for a future deployment. We had some of the air group on board and we were practicing night ops off the San Diego coast. I had spent enough time listening to the catapults to know how they sound they make. I was lin my bunk and trying to get some sleep/rest which is difficult to do with that shit happening. On deployment you're often so damn tired you learn to sleep thru it. So I'm just laying in the bunk and notice the sound of that catapult wasnt right. A few seconds later and alarms start going off. An F18 was being launched and we had a cold cat situation. Guy never got enough speed to get the plane in the air. He went right into the drink. We spent quite a while searching for him along with other boats in the battle group but I don't think he was ever found. Still live in San Diego and I've talked with some former navy pilots and they all relate. I don't remember the guys name but a lot of those older pilots say they probably knew him.

Probably, I just know Toyotas specifically have them because it came up a lot in all the uncontrolled acceleration stuff like 10 years ago.

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I still remember how hard I cried that day at my office. Everyone was speechless and numb. I knew we wouldn't do a fucking thing too. Unbelievable to me still.

I’m talking to a girl who’s currently under lockdown on the campus. They haven’t heard any updates that it’s safe yet, and the fact that they try to report that it’s under control on campus while simultaneously having no clue where these guys are is wigging me out. Haven’t heard from her in about 10 minutes.

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