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    A Well Regulated Militia . . .

    The level of absurdity rises. a friend in Missouri has told me that a school district there is debating the requirement that all future teaching recruits have a firearms certification and that current employees obtain one to keep their jobs.

    So Mrs. Thomas who has been teaching 5th grade English for 30 years would have to kit herself out like Annie Oakley to keep her job and pension.

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      A Well Regulated Militia . . .

      As you know all too well, many of the most terrifying of the most terrifying legislative proposals in this regard come from school boards, municipalities and part time state legislatures, all of which have been targeted by the Kochs and like-minded wingnuts since the turn of the century.

      I fear for the Republic

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        A Well Regulated Militia . . .

        Seriously?

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          A Well Regulated Militia . . .

          Life Imitates the Onion (Again)

          Man Accidentally Shoots Self While Guarding 'Muslim-Free' Oktaha Gun Store

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            A Well Regulated Militia . . .

            The number of American flags in the profile pictures of the people commenting on that article in defence of the twat who shot himself probably isn't coincidental, is it?

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              A Well Regulated Militia . . .

              ursus arctos wrote: Life Imitates the Onion (Again)

              Man Accidentally Shoots Self While Guarding 'Muslim-Free' Oktaha Gun Store
              Oktaha Muslim population: big fucking zero.

              According to MsD though they probably are annoyed by those non-existing Muslims living crammed in a small flat and partying til the sun comes out.

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                  A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                  Using shotgun shells to bring them down is also illegal.

                  Note that none of these guys (3 of the 4 who subdued the guy on the Thalys with an AK 47) were armed



                  Hope that Bayern and the Lakers invite them to a game.

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                    A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                    Extraordinary bravery shown by these guys to rush the gunman and bring him down when his rifle stuck. Regardless of whether they are military trained or not, to face a Kalashnikov and show such quick thinking whilst unarmed is quite something. If they hadn't it would have been a massacre.

                    It sent a shudder down my spine as it is a service I have used a lot.

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                      A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                      That piece of truly humbling heroism ("hero" is such an overused word these days but so right here) really deserves its own thread, but I love the point, key to this thread, that ursus makes about the guys being unarmed. And yes, the Lakers and Bayern would be idiots not to extend hospitality to those guys in the circumstances. (Plenty of time for the injured guy Spencer to get hold of his favourite sports team replica shirt before he appears in public post-hospital!)

                      Digressing about the wider aspects of the Arras incident, it'll probably do a fair bit of good for the image of Americans in the French mindset, I'd have thought. Might the fact that the group of US guys includes a black guy do some good for the promotion of racial harmony within the US?

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                        A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                        No, not really, but I don't know if that would really help with what the problem is. Plenty of white people and black people are friends. It's the police-black community relationship that needs work.

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                          A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                          Pokemon Attackers Fail to Play their Cards Right

                          Two men from Iowa authorities say threatened gun violence at the Pokemon World Championships in Boston are headed to court.

                          Eighteen-year-old Kevin Norton, of Ames, and 27-year-old James Stumbo, of Boone, are scheduled to be arraigned Monday on firearms related charges.

                          . . .

                          Officers executing a search warrant found a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15 rifle, several hundred rounds of ammunition, and a hunting knife in the car. Norton and Stumbo were arrested at their hotel in Saugus, north of Boston.

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                            A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                            Two US TV journalists shot dead on air

                            http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34062118

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                              A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                              Sorry Guy, What the actual FUCK?

                              Oh Christ. The world is officially a shithole.

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                                A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                I resisted the temptation to editorialize.

                                It might have led to me being intemperate and egregiously offensive, and saying something that, in hindsight, I would have still defended.

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                                  A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                  "disgruntled employee" = white, male shooter

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                                    A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                    A few months back two TV crews in San Francisco were robbed at gunpoint during one of the crews' live reports.

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                                      A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                      It actually seems that the alleged shooter is a man of colour, who is updating his Twitter account while on the run.

                                      In the kind of over-reaction typical of our security state, the NYPD has sent cops to "protect" local television stations and cleared the area outside the street level NBC studio in Rockefeller Plaza.

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                                        A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                        Holy shit. The shooter is tweeting about it. He just put up a video from his POV at the scene, the last second you see him raise the gun. Not going to link to it.

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                                          A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                          ursus arctos wrote: "disgruntled employee" = white, male shooter
                                          You forgot "Christian"

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                                            A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                            Looks like Twitter has suspended his account, but his name is Bryce Williams, he appears to be an African American male. Before putting up the videos, he said that the female reporter made racist comments and he made an equal opportunity complaint, and that the cameraman reported him to HR for something.

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                                              A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                              I note that Fox and CNN are reporting two different names. Vester Flanagan is the name given on Fox at the moment and on the BBC. Also in the still image released on the beeb website the murderer looks white.

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                                                A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                                Ah right just found out that Williams is his professional name.

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                                                  A Well Regulated Militia . . .

                                                  He has reportedly shot himself now.

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