Category: Observation O’ The Day

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First 30 Seconds: The Active Shooter Problem

America has been failing for over 40 years at understanding, planning for, and responding to Active Shooter attacks. So, we continue to see attacks end in high victim-counts. America fails because we:
– do not base plans on TIME & MATH
– like plans that are easy to type, easy to drill, and do not “trigger” anyone
– recommend and adopt “best practices” that are not best
– adopt plans that work flawlessly every day there is no attack, but fail during attacks
– desperately want a non-violent solution to an extremely violent problem
– allow emotions and political agendas to distract us

The author served as an active-duty US Army officer for over 20 years. Throughout this career, planning to give and receive deadly violence was a common, required task. Ten days after his Army retirement, he began teaching public high school, where violence was never allowed, discussed, or planned for. He was STUNNED when school leaders told him the school’s planned response during an Active Shooter attack was to gather in groups and wait to see if the killer or cops got to you first.
This experience started his study of the Active Shooter problem. This book is about what he found.

Read Ed’s no-nonsense, blunt analysis of the Active Shooter problem. Using TIME & MATH analysis, he clearly shows the ONLY response that has a high expectation of minimizing victims in future attacks.
This is UNLIKE any discussion of the Active Shooter problem you have heard from any source. It disproves MANY long-held myths and assumptions, including that we should rely on RUN HIDE FIGHT, Lockdown Drills, and 911 response. It is a wake-up call for America, the “leaders” of our schools, churches, and businesses, and our elected officials.
America has failed at this for 40+ years. It’s time to end the failure.

“Ed Monk is today’s leading expert on thwarting mass murderers. His recommended strategy is by far the most effective, as proven in cases where the defenders did what Monk suggested.” — Massad Ayoob

 

Rusty Shackleford

I’m going to put it bluntly.

They thought they wanted this. They thought they could keep pushing and they would break us. They thought they had the upper hand.

They pushed too far and they have taken us to the point of no return.

Now, they are realizing they didn’t want this. They are realizing we wont be broken. They are realizing they don’t have the upper hand.

The ball has been returned to our court, and we’re better at the game than they are. The game that they wrote the rules for.

So good luck ever getting the ball back again.

We’re done playing fair.

Welcome to the new version of the game.

Our game.

Watching all the cable snews programs, I’ve noticed that the demoncrap talking heads are suddenly all so conciliatory and calling for calm & peaceful contemplation as they decry Kirk’s assassination.

It only took me a minute or two to figure it out. And it was confirmed when one of them actually said he was scared.  Well, they are scared. 

They’re scared that the conservatives will finally get the cluebat and realize that it’s not hyperbole that the left sees anyone disagreeing with them as more than just political opposition and actual enemies (Hitler/Nazi/Fascist right a bell?) and to mix metaphors; we are like a light switch, with when it’s flipped to “on”, we’ll raise the black flag and when we begin cutting throats, we won’t stop.

Cynical Publius

Looking for black people in this video. Not finding them.

See, in DC the worst crime is in predominantly black neighborhoods. 41% of the DC population is black.

So where are all the black people in this “protest”?

I’ll tell you why there are so few: DC’s black population is the primary beneficiary of Trump’s incredibly effective crackdown on DC crime.

These “protesters” are all white Democrat self-appointed “elites” who live in crime-free Northwest DC (or the DC suburbs) in their $2mm+ homes.

White Democrats feel a congenital need to virtue signal, even if it means killing black people. Then they go home in their lululemon yoga pants, Allbirds loafers and Subaru Forester, where they open a $200 bottle of wine and celebrate themselves over all the “good” they did today.

Sickening.

Just a reminder that when it’s a Republican, pleading the 5th is a tacit admission of guilt.

Military Arms
@MAC_Arms

Here’s my take on the Epstein files scandal. I have no evidence of this, only my gut instincts.

The list that we were told existed before it didn’t exist likely contained the names of some very powerful people in government on both sides of the aisle along with unelected bureaucrats and political donors.

This scandal threatened to completely disrupt our government and shake what little trust people have in it to the ground. No one on either side of the aisle wants that, this potentially threatens both parties equally.

Why isn’t Hakeem Jeffries on CNN screaming foul right now? Pelosi? AOC? Crickets. I scanned their X profiles and I see no mention of this news, not yet anyway. If Trump farts, within minutes the usual suspects are all over social media and traditional media screeching. We’re over 12 hours into this “news” and again… nothing.

Also keep in mind that the real power brokers in DC aren’t elected. Many were likely on that list too, and they definitely don’t want their names in lights. Many of them exist in the shadows and this would drag them into the light.

This is the closest anyone has ever gotten to undoing much of the NFA. I don’t get how gun rights groups are responsible for the GOP refusal to fire or overrule the Parliamentarian (which affected much more than just this issue). They clearly pushed for that, hard. Given they couldn’t get it, they took the consolation prize of zeroing the tax, which itself would be the only blow against the NFA that has ever landed. That isn’t selling anyone out.

Nobody was “gaslit.” The plan was originally just to zero out the tax. Progun groups pushed for (and got) scrapping of registration too in the House’s bill. They took a big swing, but got screwed by the Democrat Parliamentarian and the GOP’s refusal to stop her. I’m not mad at them for trying.

You should be demanding of the groups you support, I don’t begrudge anyone that. But at the same time, I think a lot of grifters who have never accomplished anything of note are taking cheap shots right now with bs accusations.

Cynical Publius

In the future, the current practice of mutilating young children to feed their parents’ egos will be looked upon with the same disgust as we now view the Tuskegee Experiment and the lobotomization of sexually active young women in bygone decades.

But at the moment there are still sentient beings–including, sadly, three SCOTUS justices–who believe that destroying the lives of young children is a worthy political cause.

Shameful.

@SCOTUSblog
NEW: In U.S. v. Skrmetti, a closely watched case on a Tennessee law barring certain medical care for transgender minors, the court holds that Tennessee’s law can remain in place.

The Quantum Gun Fallacy

Those who suggest (or insist) that correlations prove that gun possession guarantees gun-related harm are essentially arguing a version of Schrödinger’s cat — where every person is simultaneously a shooter, a victim, and a bystander… and your neighbor’s dusty rifle, locked in a closet, is somehow shooting up a school, protecting someone, and doing absolutely nothing, all at the same time — until a policy advocate opens the box and decides which outcome they prefer.

This time, it’s not in a dissent, but as dicta in the actual decision.

Kagan Echoes Sotomayor and Accepts That AR-15s Are ‘In Common Use’

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Last year, in the case of Garland v. Cargill, Justice Sotomayor wrote a dissent that included the following description of the AR-15:

Within a matter of minutes, using several hundred rounds of ammunition, the shooter killed 58 people and wounded over 500. He did so by affixing bump stocks to commonly available, semiautomatic rifles.

At the time, I noted that this was an odd concession to make, given a) that Sotomayor is reflexively hostile to Second Amendment challenges, and b) that one of the most important challenges the Court is likely to hear in the coming years will revolve around precisely that claim:

. . . those who wish to ban the AR-15 have taken to claiming that the rifle is not, in fact, “in common use,” and that, as a result, it is not protected under the Second Amendment. Remarkably, Justice Sotomayor just pulled the rug from underneath that argument — and, to make matters worse, did so in an official Supreme Court opinion on the subject of firearms law. [. . .] Sotomayor even uses the word “common”! Not “everyday” or “universal” or “normal” or “usual,” but common — the very word that was used in Heller.

This morning, in her majority opinion in Smith and Wesson Brands, Inc v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Justice Kagan did pretty much the same thing:

Finally, Mexico’s allegations about the manufacturers’ “design and marketing decisions” add nothing of consequence. Brief for Respondent 23. As noted above, Mexico here focuses on the manufacturers’ production of “military style” assault weapons, among which it includes AR–15 rifles, AK–47 rifles, and .50 caliber sniper rifles.

See supra, at 6; App. to Pet. for Cert. 121a. But those products are both widely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers. (The AR–15 is the most popular rifle in the country. See T. Gross, How the AR–15 Became the Bestselling Rifle in the U. S., NPR (Apr. 20, 2023.)

The manufacturers cannot be charged with assisting in criminal acts just because Mexican cartel members like those guns too. The same is true of firearms with Spanish-language names or graphics alluding to Mexican history. See supra, at 6. Those guns may be “coveted by the cartels,” as Mexico alleges; but they also may appeal, as the manufacturers rejoin, to “millions of law-abiding Hispanic Americans.”

Note the language here. “Widely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers.” “The AR–15 is the most popular rifle in the country.” “They also may appeal, as the manufacturers rejoin, to ‘millions of law-abiding Hispanic Americans.’”

Under Heller, all firearms that are “in common use” are presumptively protected. At some point — and relatively soon — we are going to get a case in which the plaintiffs contend that the ban on AR-15s in their state is illegal under Heller. I have no doubt that, when that happens, Kagan and Sotomayor will find some convoluted reason to uphold the ban, but, having twice conceded such a key claim, that reason will need to be much, much more radical than it would otherwise have been.