Uvalde Texas
Border Patrol could wait no longer
The Border Patrol agents who killed the school shooter in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday entered the school on their own accord after local law enforcement requested that they hold back, two senior federal law enforcement sources told NBC News on Friday. The agents from BORTAC, Border Patrol’s tactical unit, arrived at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde from a location about 40 miles away, according to the New York Times.
Schrödinger’s serial killers
Excerpted from Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch:
Let’s accept that there’s a strong causal link between bullying and becoming a mass shooter. There’s still the fact that most people who are bullied in school don’t become mass murderers. …
Making schools more nurturing and supportive is not in conflict with making them physically safer. … I am pretty confident that there are some schools that are incredibly well-designed and heavily guarded that are also quite nurturing. If you see a family home with a state-of-the-art security system there’s no reason to assume it’s less loving and nurturing inside. …
Over the last two decades schools have leapt into the anti-bullying cause. I am sure there is less bullying in my high school today than there was when I attended. … [but] when everything is permitted, when everyone has a “reason” to do something, we act as if that lessens their responsibility for their actions, when it should mean the opposite. The sociological obsession with root causes saps the importance of agency.
This 10 year old survived the slaughter
KENS 5 News in San Antonio spoke with one of the few survivors from the fourth grade class at Robb Elementary, who wanted to share what happened to his classmates. “We have a door in the middle, and he opened it and came in and crouched a little bit and said, ‘It’s time to die,’” the 10-year-old remembered.
“When he shot, it was very loud and it hurt my ear. When I saw the bullets on the floor it was real. And when I heard the shooting through the door, I told my friend to hide under something so he wouldn’t find us. I was hiding hard and I was telling my friend not to talk because he was going to hear us. The cops said [shout] ‘help’ if you need help. And then one of the persons in my class said ‘help,’ and the guy overheard and he came in and shot her. And then the cops barged in into that classroom, and then the guy shot the cops and the cops just started shooting at him. …
[Ms. Irma and Ms. Eva] were nice teachers, and they went in front of my classmates to help and save them. I would like to say for every kid and parent to be safe.”
The massacre at Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 05-24-22 has produced the usual demands to “do something.” We share the impulse and the anger, but what specifically to do? …
So-called red-flag laws that give police the ability to deny guns to people who may pose a risk to the community have been useful in some cases. But they are hard to enforce, as we recently learned in Buffalo. New York state has a red-flag statute, and Payton Gendron was even referred for mental counseling. He still got a gun. — Wall Street Journal.
The statement that the Second Amendment is not absolute is certainly true. There are laws that can be crafted within the confines set out under controlling Supreme Court precedent. … President Biden repeated his claim that certain weapons were prohibited at the time that the Second Amendment was ratified. That is simply untrue. — law professor Jonathan Turley.
Blaska Policy Werkes 
Jefferson Airplane “Volunteers” —
“Hey now it’s time for you and me
Got a revolution
Got to revolution
Come on now we’re marching to the sea
Got a revolution
Got to revolution”
There was a time when “marching to the sea” evoked images of General Sherman, but now I just see “lemmings”. Now, as eyesight fails, some things just come into sharper focus.
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“What do YOU remember?”
1070: The Gotch’s family got their 1st dog (a Yellow Lab we named Samantha) and Edwin Starr’s mega-hit WAR playing during what seemed like every other slot on WISM 1480a.m.
The Gotch
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Fall 1970. Had my knee caved in during football practice. That was in days before MRIs, so it took them 2 weeks to decide to do “exploratory surgery,” which turned out to be reconstructive. And was in the days before arthroscopic surgery, so I have a couple of railroad tracks running down the inside of my knee. And it was in the days when that kind of surgery derailed any future football or court sports. My surgeon also repaired Gayle Sayers knee…..
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“My surgeon also repaired Gayle Sayers knee…..”
Rare Air, there, mon frere!
Unfortunately abbreviated career aside, the Kansas Comet (the youngest player EVAH inducted into the NFL HoF) is in The Gotch’s Top Five RBs.
Heck, his 30.6 yard career KO return average, AND TDs per return, are BOTH STILL RECORDS…50 + years later.
IMO, even more importantly? He was an unassuming, straight-shootin’ Class Act, a quality in regrettably short supply these days.
The Gotch
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Memories? I remember waking up in my downtown Madison apartment in the wee hours of August 24, 1970 to a huge clap of what sounded like thunder, rolling over and resuming my shut-eye. Next morning I found out Sterling Hall had been bombed.
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Recall delivering next day 08/25/1970 WSJs with that screaming headline.
After serving an effin’ joke-of-a-sentence, The Gotch recalls seeing him playing a leisurely round at Odana Hills Golf Course ~10 years ago.
Wonder if Robert Fassnacht was a golfer…
The Gotch
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