"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
Here's a bill in Ohio that will let people be armed on school property with 24 hours of training.
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/leg...id=GA134-HB-99
Ohio is a fairly centrist state politically so I'll be curious how this one progresses.
Safe to say the police and teachers unions don't support it but maybe parents do.
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/lo...2-bbccf31310fe
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
After learning that the police “chief” was the tactical commander , it brings the situation into full clarity
Unless you are a current active member of a tactical team with current training certification, I don’t give a shit of you’re a 5 star general … you absolutely should not be making real time tactical decisions on this type of call and in my experience would be immediately countermanded by a more experienced tactical command figure
And furthermore, the team leader on the ground has the authority to make a tactical plan in the absence of competent leadership
Lots of hindsight for sure and that call was a shit sandwich but seriously …. WTF
The articles about this bill always seem to miss an important piece of background information. Teachers have been allowed to carry in Ohio for a while. TDI has a program called Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response (FASTER) for training teachers.
I don't know the particulars of the case but for some reason the Ohio supreme court ended up ruling a year or so ago that teachers needed to take the same training as Ohio police officers. This bill is designed to clarify training requirements and get rid of the supreme court mandate.
Here's an article about FASTER.
https://www.recoilweb.com/ohio-is-ar...ff-135340.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...J1H5nqhUaO17OM
UPenn Professor Ripped for Suggesting Police Allowed Texas Schoolchildren to Die Because They Were ‘Brown’
A University of Pennsylvania professor drew ridicule online for suggesting that first responders waited too long to engage the shooter in Uvalde, Texas last week because “police didn’t give a damn” about “brown kids.”
In a since-deleted tweet from Friday, UPenn Religious Studies and Africana Studies Professor Anthea Butler — who is also an MSNBC contributor — suggested that racism was responsible for the police failure to stop a gunman at a Texas elementary school in an attack that left 19 children and two adults dead.
So since no one else will ask, I will. Did those children die because most of them were Mexican American and the police didn’t give a damn about a school w predominately brown kids? I mean, because it’s Texas.. and if you think everyone who isn’t white is illegal..”
Butler — whose 2021 book “White Evangelical Racism” charges that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power — seemed to disregard the fact that the attacker in the Hispanic-majority City of Uvalde was himself of Latino descent, as were the city’s police chief, Daniel Rodríguez, the school’s police chief, Pedro Arredondo, and several other officers at the scene.
A few of the officers are reported to have had children trapped in the school at the time, some of whom died in the attack.
Butler later made her profile private following the critical responses to her tweet. However, the associate professor was not alone in her unfounded claims.
Left-wing columnist Wajahat Ali expressed agreement with Butler’s sentiments when he tweeted, “I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this.”
^^^^
Pathetic, dangerous and beyond ignorant.
There's nothing civil about this war.