Gun Violence

School Shooters Will Lose Out to People With...Bats /  by Muhammad Amir Ayub

A miniature baseball bat

A miniature baseball bat

““We don’t want to be sitting ducks,” William Hall, superintendent of the Millcreek Township School District, said on Wednesday. “We’re not just going to go hide.”

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“Part of that response is to assess your environment for anything that could be used as a potential weapon or to defend yourself,” he added.

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They are no match, of course, for a gunman toting a semiautomatic weapon.

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Even so, Mr. Hall said, “I think a bat could disarm a pistol with a nice swing.””

This is really just too funny.

(from Daring Fireball)

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There’s Pro-Gun, and There’s Uh, More Pro-Gun /  by Muhammad Amir Ayub

I’ll admit that I am pretty violent (not surprising for someone with anger issues). But the NRA and the rest of the people on that extreme spectrum of gun control are a different animal altogether in the States, the only country with liberal gun controls.

The fact that they have a TV channel on Apple TV (which is hilarious as Apple would never have something remotely contentious on their App Store) will tell all you need to know about how effed up those side of the people are.

 

Talk about people getting orgasmic about gunpowder in iron barrels.

Or how about marriage blessings with guns and bullets and a whole lotta crown? Is anyone outside of America up for that? There’s a lot of weird stuff out there, and I hope that it’s not representative as a whole (the social media age has allowed anything to get a say and become popular); it's undeniable though that the US has the highest rates of mass shootings anywhere.

And does anyone notice that the overwhelming majority of these kinds of people are all whites? 

It’s pretty clear that America’s extremely pro-Gun attitute is a significant factor in its highly violent environment as a whole.

(from Daring Fireball)