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Blast from the past: In 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 15 people and wounded 23 more at Columbine High School. The destruction occurred despite the fact that there was an armed security officer at the school and another one nearby — exactly what LaPierre argued on Friday was the answer to stopping “a bad guy with a gun.” Deputy Neil Gardner was a 15-year veteran of the Jefferson County, Colo., Sheriff’s Office assigned as the uniformed officer at Columbine. According to an account compiled by the police department, Gardner fired on Harris but was unsuccessful in stopping him: Gardner, seeing Harris working with his gun, leaned over the top of the car and fired four shots. He was 60 yards from the gunman. Harris spun hard to the right and Gardner momentarily thought he had hit him. Seconds later, Harris began shooting again at the deputy. After the exchange of gunfire, Harris ran back into the building. Gardner was able to get on the police radio and called for assistance from other Sheriff’s units. “Shots in the building. I need someone in the south lot with me.” The second officer was Deputy Paul Smoker, a motorcycle patrolman who was near the school writing a speeding ticket. When he heard a dispatch of a woman injured at the high school, he responded. He, too, fired at Harris but didn’t stop him. LaPierre said having armed security on the scene is necessary so someone is there to shoot back. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” he said. “Would you rather have your 911 call bring a good guy with a gun from a mile away — or a minute away?” But in chaotic situations, it’s often impossible to identify the “bad guy,” as Smoker said in his account of Columbine: “There was an unknown inside a school. We didn’t know who the ‘bad guy’ was but we soon realized the sophistication of their weapons. These were big bombs. Big guns. We didn’t have a clue who ‘they’ were.” “That’s the point,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at a press conference on Friday afternoon, denouncing LaPierre’s solution. “There were two armed law enforcement officers at that campus, and you see what happened. Fifteen dead ... 23 wounded.” New Jersey Chris Christie (R) also said on Friday that he doesn’t believe having armed guards will make schools safer or encourage learning. On Wednesday, violence prevention researchers and a large number of education, health and civic groups discouraged putting more guns in schools. “Inclinations to intensify security in schools should be reconsidered,” they wrote in a statement. “We cannot and should not turn our schools into fortresses. Effective prevention cannot wait until there is a gunman in a school parking lot. We need resources such as mental health supports and threat assessment teams in every school and community so that people can seek assistance when they recognize that someone is troubled and requires help.” This is from 2012
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Evil_Greven posted:Blast from the past: yes but have you considered that those cops didn't love the students enough?
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Karl Barks posted:Which one of you guys is that cspam account on Twitter, speak up it's a bot I think it seems to post to twitter stuff that quotes a tweet (and nothing else) and reposts a cspam reply to it (and nothing else)
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:09 |
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Evil_Greven posted:Blast from the past: but their pedagogy
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https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/967490578320707586
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https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/967435970508357632 this country is so hosed lol
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:12 |
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Some video https://twitter.com/BridgeProject21/status/967491600917114887
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Joementum posted:it owns that he's not going to let anyone talk him out of the dumbest idea he's ever had I love that Armed Educators is going to be the name of them now. I can just see Trump sitting his robe at the beginning of a day watching Fox & Friends trying to come up with a catchy phrase for arming the teachers and just having an 'Ah-Ha!' moment with Armed Educators.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:13 |
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lmao guess she didn't realize what conservatism is actually about She'll be back and apologizing for her impudence within a week
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:hot drat is this streaming somewhere? https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/967491509330300928 lol yes
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Epic High Five posted:lmao doubt it, she'll probably take the Jennifer Rubin path and begin gadflying the republicans and bemoaning that her party has left her
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/967493467046899712
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Bear... martial artists... poo poo...
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SKULL.GIF posted:doubt it, she'll probably take the Jennifer Rubin path and begin gadflying the republicans and bemoaning that her party has left her while still voting for them at all levels lol there's a reason why they laugh in the face of and debase these people
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/967435970508357632 Ummm, white suburban women are generally married to white suburban men so I'm not sure this is going to work.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:18 |
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can't wait for trump tweets to be used (again) in oral arguments at the supreme court https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/967493467046899712
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lmao https://twitter.com/anamariecox/status/967483539842314241
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Joementum posted:can't wait for trump tweets to be used (again) in oral arguments at the supreme court i’m the “@FoxNews” tag thrown in
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:the word cuck is losing it's meaning i remember
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:19 |
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lmao right wing concern trolling never gets old!!!
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:19 |
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trump watches cnn more than fox
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@FoxNews.
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@FoxNews.
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By the way, jumping spiders are awesome and cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDtlvZGmHYk
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TMMadman posted:Ummm, white suburban women are generally married to white suburban men so I'm not sure this is going to work. also the majority of them voted for trump but *in extremely dnc voice* i'm sure they'll come around this time!
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:20 |
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Zyla posted:lmao or are you just getting old with it? 🧐
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:21 |
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stop with the reruns, we want new poo poo
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:21 |
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im just trying to imagine obama pimping al jazeera america on his tweets everyday and how that would go over
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Zyla posted:im just trying to imagine obama pimping al jazeera america on his tweets everyday and how that would go over lol obama *dont* care about the u a e
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:lol obama *dont* care about the u a e just trying to think of a fox news equivalent...
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:24 |
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also obama supported american things, so he'd use @msnbc, and it would make him look uneducated if he did what trump is doing, appealing to the tv box i dont think ive seen trumps diploma, so i hope he's lying about graduating from Penn
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:25 |
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sucks that when he's allowed to golf and lay around all weekend, we end up getting re-run tweets because he's just livetweeting Fox News (as is traditional for the president) and Fox News is just re-running their hits from the week while they fly off to child sex slave island
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:25 |
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https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/967491742420422657
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:28 |
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the Cream and Crimson pizza from Avers may be the most filling thing I have ever eaten
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Epic High Five posted:the Cream and Crimson pizza from Avers may be the most filling thing I have ever eaten Actually nobody makes a more filling meal than Doobie's DogHouse
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Evil_Greven posted:By the way, jumping spiders are awesome and cool: look i think jumping spiders can be cute and picures of them with water drop hats helped me get over my huge phobia of spiders (kinda) but u should give a warning when the video is gonna open with a ultra close zoom on their face all spiderin' with the mandibles and stuff okay thank you
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Nonsense posted:Actually nobody makes a more filling meal than Doobie's DogHouse empty promises, empty calories
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this is me
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:31 |
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Lol these conservatives with some awareness of the coddling of nazis and pathological hatred of women in the republican party are probably the dumbest of all
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she really should've known better than to say, "we shouldn't support proud proponents of ethnic cleansing or literal child rapists" at a gathering of Republicans
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