May 18, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Santa Fe High School is located between me and Galveston. I drive by it so often.
Local news at 9:00 am is reporting “multiple fatalities.” The shooter is in custody.
A guy was just shown walking down the street in front of where the kids are being evacuated. He was waving a large American flag and a pistol on his hip. What is wrong with us?
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1There are times when I think various people, usually the kind who maybe have only one foot on the ground, use Old Glory like a rented mule! I am more sure about that in this situation due to the openly carried firearm – in front of kids who have just had a whale of a scare from an armed individual.
2This the third school shooting in less than two weeks. Enough!
3this is the third school shooting in less than three weeks. Enough!
There now. Corrected.
4Is that the same Santa Fe HS that was involved in a big fight over whether or not someone could lead a prayer before a football game?
5Dang. Can’t get all ten of them organized to spell or edit this am.
6Now the tweeter-in-chief sent thoughts and prayers.
The video I saw at 9:45 showed a moron with a MAGA hat, Ameican flag, and rifle standing by his SUV near the place where they were taking the students from the school. Such class – NOT.
7American Exceptionalism, Baby!
Exceptionally violent.
Exceptionally armed.
Exceptionally deluded.
What can go wrong?
8I just can’t stand it right now.
Hopes and prayers that “guns first” people change to “children first”…
9Don A, I think it was one of them, another was the Bandera ISD just northwest of San Antonio.
I used to work around Santa Fe and frequently drove by there, even long ago it seemed to be a very ‘churchy’ place, and with lots of ‘signs’ out by the roads. Heard BOI’s make snarky comments about it.
Too much of this crap, can’t imagine how today’s students feel about this f*cked up nation.
Read that shooter was caught, had walked into an art class with a shotgun (which can inflict even worse wounds than we’re used to).
10Insane, yeah, bring on the freakin’ ‘thoughts and prayers’ bull…
This is the same town that lost a judgment to the Nevello family. They were a Jewish family whose son was harassed and mistreated by other students while teachers and administrators refused to intervene.
I’m wondering how long it will take for this shooting to blamed on mental illness.
11First thing we do is get judicious about the distinction between “us” and “them”.
12Sam in St. Paul – it has long been my belief that killing IS the work of people who are unbalanced. (Not counting the military). I wait now for the gun rights people to start strutting their stuff again.
PS there have been explosive devices found in the area.
13It will be alright, every official that spoke at the early press briefings has envoke The Diety. Trump has weigh in and Gov. AButt is flying in for a photo op. Prayers and thoughts will surely solve this problem.
14Remember Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. (People with guns are more just more effective at killing people.)
The NRA should be an uninitiated co-conspirator in all of the school shootings.
15Make High School Safe Again
16Mores guns as the solution to gun and other violence needs to be given the Einstein Award for Insanity: “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” As a very young student when this crap began and now the father of two young boys, yes, #enoughisenough!
Thank you students, parents and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and all involved with directing end to gun violence movements for your organizational skills and media savvy. Most law enforcement personnel, states’ attorney generals, and a good portion of the sane voting public know the solutions. Now let’s take it to our state legislatures and the US Congress. Write them, phone them. lobby, march, protest and by all means Vote 2018!
17Romaine lettuce is pulled from shelves because you “might” get sick… guns kill children but we cannot interfere with those second amendment rights! Bull @#$%.
18Just saw a tvnews helo vidclip of gurneys laden with DB’s being wheeled out of the school. Killer apparently a student w/possible accomplice.
It’s A-OK though, lots of f*cking ‘thoughts and prayers’ flying around, no probs. Guv Abutt is on his way in for a 1PM presser, after ordering flags to half-staff statewide. Can Pence and/or tRump be far behind?
19News is reporting “explosive devices” being found. If true, this is Texas’s third bomb incident this year. Guns are not enough?
20Buttermilk Sky, every news item and tv chyron I’ve seen about this ledes with: “Fewer than ten dead in school blahblah”. Emphasis on “Fewer”, so media seems to be softpedaling this to a degree (if y’all are sensitive to modern ‘soft’ propaganda).
Whelp, Abutt is on scene and about to start spinning on the teevee.
21And the Republican charade rolls on.
22@ Sandridge Well said.
23Er, oops…meant @Maymoon regarding pulling the romaine.
24Trumper’s have manipulated the shooter’s photo by placing a vote Hillary hat on him on a fake Facebook page freshly created in his name to obfuscate his record of right wing neo-nazi leanings that are swiftly being deleted. FB deleted his page but has refused to delete the fake page when reported to them. The ‘false flag’ and more conspiracies are already feeding the usual suspects who are terrorized by the anti-gun advocates.
The shooter’s dad online presence is as a pro-gun fanatic…big fan of FOX news’ shrieking Mimi, Tomi Lahren.
25Dotard45 spoke. Blah, blah & blah. Same what he said last time, until he had dinner with the NRA and chose to do nothing. Points to the first reporter who asks, “that’s what you said last time, what to you plan to do or are you afraid of the NRA?”
26Maymoon:
27Good point.
When the founding fathers wrote the constitution, the rate of fire for weapons of the day was just a little less than what’s available to any moron today. Just a tad.
So to use your analogy, let’s say Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were lettuce farmers, and made sure that there was constitutional language guaranteeing protection of lettuce as national food staple. As a result, it’s a totally safe investment, since it’s protected by law. Gianormous industries are therefore built over time around the cultivation and improvement of lettuce. A head of lettuce will probably make an appearance on some form of currency. We identify as Americans with lettuce. Then, through genetic engineering, lettuce begins mutating. Think of Little Shop of Horrors. On a national scale. It kills indiscriminately. Unfortunately, the lettuce industry has the most feared lobbying organization known to man protecting their profits by convincing folks that even considering studying the harmful effects of lettuce is bygod UnAmerican.
Is this idea stupendously, absurdly ridiculous?
Yes.
But riddle me this.
Is it any less ridiculous than claiming that the founding fathers could envision AR-15’s, and that their laws were adequate for today?
I don’t think so.
But that’s just my opinion, and I’m just as full of sh*t as anybody else.
Under the radar was yet another school shooting this week, this one the shooter acted like a sniper with his mom’s 9mm semi-automatic rifle. Gut instincts say that giving a vague description of the weapon was to avoid admitting it was yet another AR-15 in the hands of an enabled killer.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/student-mothers-gun-high-school-shooting-police/story?id=55257870
28Susan on the Left Coast, a few hours ago the tvnews showed some pics of the alleged killer.
In one, his ballcap (they always wear idiotic ballcaps) showed a white ’60’s style ‘peace symbol’ of all things. It looked just a little fishy to me, like it might have been photoshopped.
I thought then how long it would be until the revisionists crawled out of the woodwork.
In no tvnews coverage did I hear a whisper about this asshole having any RW leanings, they only mentioned that he was sort of an outsider, and may have been bullied a little.
Apparently he and his dad were fairly vocal RWNJ’s as you mentioned, we’ll see how that plays out. Given all the spin in media (Fox/Sinclair/etc) and with our super-Rethug TX pols it will surely be downplayed.
Guv Abutt, followed by Cruz, Patrick, and others finally came on the teevee and almost sounded reasonable in a few areas (not Cruz, who must be taking oratorial lessons from his whackjob preacherdad). Not nearly as much god-bothering as is usual.
29But they emphasized the ‘mental health & profiling’ aspects, blahblah, etc., while dropping a few 2ndA buzzwords too; with hints of ‘upgrading’ $chool infra$tructure with some sort of design and construction boondoggle$.
The guy to watch was Col. McCraw, head of the DPS, a no-nonsense badass who just nailgunned some info out there (and sort of acted like a meth-head, sort of jumpy), wouldn’t want to get a ‘citation’ from him on the highway.
I enjoyed seeing them sweat in our 96degF temps, even with a little tent shade, Canadian Cruz especially.
Seems to be a good killer data source:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/18/1765358/-What-we-know-about-the-Santa-Fe-shooter-to-be-updated
30I have often pondered this: insurance on fire arms as part of home owners/renter’s insurance. If the policy holder goes off the deep end, his premiums sky-rocket. Hence, it is a damn good idea to either 1.) forswear firearm ownership or 2.) have a hidden stash of gold in order to hang on to the policy, just so the wife and kids would have a roof over their heads. Insurance would not save the policy holder from being sued by the victims or their survivors.l Heck, if cars etc. can be insured, why not? My late husbands camera collection was covered as well.
31maggie, treat firearms exactly as vehicles are treated in most states. Some guns like cars are not “street legal” such as the AR-15 and should be registered and insured as such.
From Stephanie Ruhle: Donnie “thinks AI is a steak sauce.”
So he probably thinks AR-15 is the robust and aged version.
32Dan Patrick thinks we should have only one entrance to a school. Did he run this by the Fire Marshall?
33FYI gun insurance.
NRA’s “Carry Guard” insurance program [unlawfully] provided liability insurance “to gun owners for acts of intentional wrongdoing”.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lloyds-of-london-nra/lloyds-underwriters-told-to-stop-insurance-linked-to-nra-idUSKBN1IA1T5
34I live less than 20 miles from Santa Fe High School and have ridden by it on my bike many times. They brought a few of the injured to the local hospital for treatment, so this hits especially close to home. Hell, it *is* home. Santa Fe, TX, is a seriously goofy place, but they don’t deserve this. Nobody does.
It seems to me that the only thing that can stop this b.s. (sorry, Mama) is a legislative counterbalance to the NRA, one that is equally as heavy. One might think the insurance and/or the medical industries would have weighed in long before now, but nope.
It’s therefore up to the rest of us. Our legislators need to fear us as much as they fear the NRA. Vote the bastards out! (Judicious application of tar and feathers might help, too…)
35Apparently the school had too many doors.
36I blame it on Texas’s notoriously strict gun control laws that . . . oh, wait . . .
37Just for my own info, would like to know what happened to the guy with the flag and the gun.
And according to some info I just got, 90% of gun owners are not NRA members. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
38“The NRA should be an uninitiated co-conspirator in all of the school shootings.”
Yes Stephan Schlackman.
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