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Wait, so the total vote was 164 votes?! I don’t know much about small places would that be normal for a ward in a tiny town? Even so, holy fuck.

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Yes, he was Mr. Chaos not a hero. In the version of that play I saw on TV he was portrayed as a yob in a union jack shirt, of the sort favoured by the National Front (neo-Nazis).

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How so? If he came in through the door then the door didn’t lock. Are you saying he got in some other way? Or he just shot the lock? I guess the latter is possible. Hope the DOJ investigation is competent and not weird and crazy like this shit.

But whatever the screwups in Uvalde were bottom line is: angry stupid 18-year-old had a machine gun.

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Good information to have. Reminds me of stories I’ve heard of 2 men who are strangers get into a quarrel about some petty thing and one of them pulls out a gun and shoots the other guy dead. No gun he might’ve punched a guy or felt that was too much of a risk, then you’re in a fistfight. And walked away.

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Holy crap. Also why not just let people have rocket propelled grenade launchers? They’re oblong and cool looking.😫😫😫😫

The thing about that ‘I need my gun for protection’ ideology is whenever any bad thing happens it just reinforces that shit.

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Nobody just shot the door open? Which would also have distracted the shooter from killing children. He’s gonna turn toward the door that’s being shot at.

I hope all of this is clarified by the DOJ investigation and report. I hope there are diagrams and things. Photographs of the door and it’s lock, of the windows. And what kind of guns the responding officers had. Are there some kind of guns that can’t shoot locks? Or hinges? I don’t know.

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Pretty sure the link between marijuana and mass shootings is it used medicinally AFTERWARDS by SURVIVORS! I say that is someone who is very anti-drugs. Because of a family full of addicts.

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Yes. Very tired of the notion “police are bad” and then that’s the end of it. We need competent actual police. Crime is real. Violent crime, including violence against women. Also astounded that the idea *poverty causes crime* is treated as an actual sociological fact. That’s a bromide from 1920s communists (like my grandparents). Machismo and gangsters cause violent crime. A complete lack of character causes white-collar crime.

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Yeah, after I posted this, I noticed that you posted something in a similar vein down-thread.

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That’s the outside door. The door that they weirdly couldn’t open even though they had guns and could shoot it open was the door of the classroom.

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No, you heard correctly.

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Yep. That’s a known type of engineering fuck up. If it had a deadbolt like the one on my apartment door that she had to turn a little thing to lock she would’ve known whether it was locked or not.

A much more interesting thing is why wasn’t the resource officer at the school? Was that some weird part-time job or was he supposed to always be there when the kids were there?

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Whoa! I didn’t know that. That was the first school shooting of this sort, at least according to Lawrence O’Donnell. He killed 19 people. Started with his wife and mother. These fuckers.

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Yes! Matt Negrin is excellent. And the last one is very funny. “The concealed button argument…“😂🙄😖

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