Agreed; the sad part is that none of those measures will be effective. Cover is inadequate on its own. It's best used in conjunction with some kind of specialized tool designed to force shooters to stop in their tracks.

Hmm, what kind of tool would work for that?

I'm envisioning something that would enable a person to throw something dense at the shooter at high speed... maybe it could use a pressurized hot gas to throw it out of a long tube? There would need to be some kind of mechanism to allow the defender to activate it on command... Maybe with one finger.

This will take some thinking.

https://discordemoji.com/assets/emoji/thonk.png

Maybe river rocks or hockey pucks

Good thinking soldier. We could keep them in buckets.

Locked up, of course - can't have those kids getting into them too easily or quickly

1. Yes, school shootings are real.
2. They're still utterly rare.
That doesn't mean we should do nothing, but stupid assinine bullshit answers like rocks and hockey pucks (and rubber batons) help the problem, nor does spotlighting (http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/spotlight.html), which that CBC article clearly (absolutely and unquestionably) is.
Now, that rant over... There are other related reasons to secure schools; Most of y'all are too young to remember, but in the late 198Ø's and early '9Ø's, there was a rash of non-custodial parental kidnappings at schools. There's ***STILL*** a drug problem in many schools (Paterson NJ's Eastside High School former principal Joe CLARK became famous when hr took the problem on with baseball bats and chains on the doors, *Lean on Me* was loosely based on his story).
But nothing stops a shooter as fast as knowing he's *GOING* to die if he tries.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/opinions/bret-stephens-twitter-fight-bedbugs-perry/index.html

How's that never trumping working out Bret Stevens? Are your new friends standing up for you? Oh what's that they're hypocritical liars and they hate you regardless of the fact that you switched sides for them. Gee who could've predicted that.

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The link to the doc if people want to read https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08313

The same case can be made for radicalizing people on the left

You’re watching a buzzfeed video and next thing you know you’re on TYT and breadtube

One minute you're reading an NYT article arguing that the USSR wasn't so bad, next thing you know, well you're already there pretty much

So... ¿One day you're fat and happy, the next you're dead of starvation?

bye bye kirsty!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/politics/gillibrand-drops-out-of-race/index.html

Shoot. And right before she was going to tell all those white women why they were wrong for voting for Pres. Trump.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1166839524762296320?s=09

Mad lad

good she was going nowhere

Wasn't she one of the higher tier joke candidates?

she was....some thought she had a chance

I'm sure he was never actually afraid of her lol

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@SOF-GOLDENLEAF
https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Type_2_Ka-Mi

Legalize reposting the same link in a row 😔

Also @SOF-GOLDENLEAF
https://youtu.be/TsH4CrwExCQ

http://imgur.com/gallery/9jl1Yma

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-49493657

Remind to get good belle laff when read di pidgin

i forget that BBC pidgin exists and always laugh when i'm reminded that it does exist

i can't believe people spend money on this

how is this not horrendously racist?

It's ableist to not humor it, assuming this was presented by a high-tiered minority

it's only ableist if you think that the people who speak pidgin (most of which happen to be black) are incapable of learning proper english. is BBC saying that black people are too stupid to learn proper english?

a lot of people are asking...

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@pokemon_fetish @Big Earth @<@588544138425925635>
1Ø U.S. Code§  246
Militia: composition and classes
(a)
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

(b)The classes of the militia are—
(2)
the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

@Mandatory Carry I paid attention

thanks

Fucking spaces didn't paste correctly though...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/15/sheriffs-and-the-posse-comitatus/

Short-short version; A sheriff can call up his/her local populuos in *"time of local emergency"* as the *"local emergency services coordinator."*
Lesser duly appointed officials serve as the militia "sergeants" by supervising said milita (street closure barricade Manning for example)...
And the city of New York has a formal (*¡AND UNIFORMED!*) militia.