{"id":111903,"date":"2025-08-31T01:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111903"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:23:31","slug":"111903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111903","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. Took lessons from the Nashville idjit.<br \/>\n&#8220;Gun Free Zones&#8221; aren&#8217;t, as the murderous minded have them there.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/camedwards\/2025\/08\/29\/minneapolis-shooter-gun-free-zone-n1229760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minneapolis Shooter Sought Out &#8216;Gun-Free Zone&#8217; as Location for Attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old who opened fire on kids at a mass in Minneapolis this week may have chosen his target because he believed the Catholic school would have little security, including armed school staff who could shoot back when he launched his attack.<\/p>\n<p>NY Post reporter Diana Nerozzi has shared portions of the shooter&#8217;s manifesto on X, including his thoughts on whether he&#8217;d face armed resistance if he picked his former middle school as the scene for his killing spree.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He then writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My old middle school could be a good option. Annunciation Catholic church and school. It&#8217;s an older building that probably doesn&#8217;t have many modern security features. There is also a hallway just before the main entrance that should act as a nice funnel of\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Diana Nerozzi (@diana_nerozzi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/diana_nerozzi\/status\/1961157093974569035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, the killer was correct, but the same is likely true of the vast majority of schools in Minnesota. The state, does, however, allow educators to carry on the job\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/minn-teachers-can-carry-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with written permission<\/a>\u00a0from the school&#8217;s principal or &#8220;other person having general control and supervision of the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Retired Professor Joe Olson, a former NRA board member, wrote the provision as part of Minnesota&#8217;s 2003 permit to carry law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically what it says is you can have dangerous weapons, firearms, knives, BB guns, replica firearms in a school as long as you have permission of the principal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Olson says he personally knows of at least two Minnesota teachers who have the written permission and are currently carrying guns in schools, but would not give us their names.<\/p>\n<p>WCCO asked, &#8220;Could there be a lot more?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes there could be more,&#8221; Olson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Olson made those comments in 2018, after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, but the law hasn&#8217;t changed since then. Because permission is obtained from the school principal and not the school district itself, it&#8217;s difficult to know how many educators are carrying on the job. This this isn&#8217;t really a policy that schools would want to advertise either, but my guess is that it&#8217;s an uncommon practice across the state, at least at the moment. In fact, in that 2018 report by WCCO, the head of Minnesota&#8217;s largest teacher&#8217;s union was completely unaware of the law&#8217;s existence, so many school staffers and administrators might not even know that&#8217;s an option.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the shooting at the Church of the Annunciation, though, that will hopefully change. As Dr. John Lott pointed out in a post at Crime Prevention Research Center&#8217;s website, the killer specifically said he wanted to target a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2025\/08\/the-shooter-claims-that-he-would-only-target-a-gun-free-zone-because-the-victims-are-defenseless-thats-why-i-and-many-others-like-schools-so-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gun-free zone<\/a>\u00a0since there would be less likelihood of an armed response, chillingly writing &#8220;That\u2019s why I and many others like schools so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lott has provided strong evidence that the monsters who engage in these types of attacks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2025\/08\/vince-vaughn-explains-the-obvious-how-mass-killers-pick-out-venues-where-their-victims-are-sitting-ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">often seek out places<\/a>\u00a0where their victims are unlikely to be armed, and research from Purdue University&#8217;s Homeland Security Institute suggests that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/camedwards\/2022\/06\/02\/research-shows-armed-teachers-save-lives-n58998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fastest way to stop an active assailant attack<\/a>\u00a0at a school is to have both a school resource office on hand who can seek out and engage the attacker, along with armed teachers who can shelter in place with their students and defend them in case the killer breaches the classroom door.<\/p>\n<p>SROs aren&#8217;t an option for every school district or private school, though, given the cost of hiring full-time security, and having armed school staff in place is better than nothing. In fact, I&#8217;d say that schools with armed staff on campus\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>advertise that fact (without divulging who, specifically, is carrying on the clock). That alone would likely deter some of these twisted individuals from carrying out their murderous plans, and I hope that more Minnesota schools will take let the public know they&#8217;re taking advantage of the fact that state law does allow for staffers to serve as a first line of defense against these cowardly killers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. Took lessons from the Nashville idjit. &#8220;Gun Free Zones&#8221; aren&#8217;t, as the murderous minded have them there. 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