It's a bad ruling. It gives conspiracy theorists a field day, as you note, and also allows privacy to be a pretext for, say, concealing evidence of a tardy police response.
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Fortunately for you lot, I wrote a 12 paragraph 'precis' about this last night, and then deleted it, because... it's not a conspiracy, it's more about what should be allowed in the public sphere... stuff.
There is probably a really shit reason for the whole thing, but, I choose to believe that it is because the police person's family are looking for cash.
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(sound warning)
https://twitter.com/Tezlurkss/status/963877360578809856
Hours after the NRA tweeted about buying your Valentine a gun.
Still, thoughts and prayers will change everything.
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What's worse is one kid tweeted that he was hiding under a desk, and locked in a classroom, and the journalistic vultures descended on his timeline, not fucking one of them spelling his name correctly, WHEN IT WAS ALREADY WRITTEN DOWN.
OK, that isn't worse.
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110 miles from where I teach but it feels a lot closer, especially as I was in a classroom when the kids were dying.
It seems to have been prolonged, starting outside the school then moving inside.
This and Orlando in my state in just the last two years. But Florida will remain a pro-gun state and I know from past experience that many of my students will largely regurgitate second amendment waffle if I try to start a debate on gun laws in a lesson.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post110 miles from where I teach but it feels a lot closer, especially as I was in a classroom when the kids were dying.
It seems to have been prolonged, starting outside the school then moving inside.
This and Orlando in my state in just the last two years. But Florida will remain a pro-gun state and I know from past experience that many of my students will largely regurgitate second amendment waffle if I try to start a debate on gun laws in a lesson.
Teachers I think may have become numbed to the fact that this is the new normal. OTOH they can kid themselves that statistically shooting deaths are still rare as a percentage of the total school population.
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Originally posted by Incandenza View PostI can't imagine what it feels like to be a teacher when something like this happens.
Tomorrow I will keep a more wary eye on kids hanging out, especially early in the morning when this shit most often happens. Some kids will ask questions, others will rashly make typical middle school stupid/macho comments. The district office will send some emails re: reminders of lockdowns and procedures which I will look over, and then delete.
Recently we've spent thousands of bucks re-doing locks and doors and while I understand why in today's screwed up gun mania culture, it still pisses me off that we can go w/out a raise for years, but somehow huge amounts of $$$ show up to improve security all over the school. Feel for rookie teachers - glad I do not have to do this for that many more years.
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Typically insightful comments from many posters here. And you're going to need to fight for your views because the US has lost its collective mind on guns.
Even yesterday, as a student described the suspect as a school shooter waiting to happen, as a parent went to see if his children were among the dead, the same parent is quoted in The Guardian as saying "we need to stop school shootings but what can you do? I don't want the government taking my guns."
As usual now is not the time to talk about it, just offer thoughts and prayers which none of them mean. A ruling class of politicians who never fail to push the lowest common denominator easy answer on every other issue somehow find this incredibly complex. But if things weren't going to change after Sandy Hook then they never were.
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For years now, the Onion has run this article after mass shootings: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens, with the article updated to reflect the details and location of the latest example of mass gun violence. The writer of the original headline tweeted this yesterday:
https://twitter.com/jasonroeder/status/963976307879985152
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Showtime aired a documentary series about mass shootings last fall, Active Shooter, featuring interviews with survivors, police and EMTs, members of the communities, and family members of the victims and, in the case of the Washington Navy Yard, the shooter himself. It debuted on September 29, and then two of the five worst massacres occurred during the 8-week run.
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I corresponded a couple of years ago with this bloke, who writes a lot about the subject. Helpful bloke.
https://law.stanford.edu/2015/10/12/...make-us-safer/
Edit- ignore the preview of the URL! He's one of the good guys.
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