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It's the GUNZ. They'll drive ya' crazy.
« on: July 08, 2015, 03:07:57 PM »
Sweet bouncing Vishnu on a trampoline! (with thanks to firehand for the wording)

http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/Shooting-in-City-Heights-prompts-lockdown-at-elementary-school-312234571.html


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An accidental shooting in City Heights prompted officials to lockdown a nearby elementary school Tuesday. The victim in his 20s was hanging out with friends and "playing with a gun" at Jeremy Henwood Memorial Park – a park named after an SDPD officer gunned down in the line of duty in 2011 – when the weapon discharged and wounded his ankle around 1:45 p.m. At 1:50 p.m., Rosa Parks Elementary School was placed on lockdown for precautionary measures due to the gunfire. Paramedics took the unidentified victim to Scripps Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest to treat the non-life-threatening leg injury, according to SDPD spokesman Matt Tortorella.

Five minutes later - probably the police response time - the school (where officials probably never even heard the shot in the park across the street) is placed on lockdown "for precautionary measures"!

Did they expect all the other guns - the ones just lying in the streets - to come a-running so they too could discharge all on their own like the first one did?  It was either that or everybody was starting to nod off after lunch and needed something to get the old heart rate back up again.  Surely it was not so that they could demonstrate to the taxpayers that they were fully capable of coming and drawing chalk outlines while playing Button, Button, Who's Got the Button looking for some make-believe shooter.

It's the GUNZ, I tell ya'!  They'll drive ya' nuts.

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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.

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Re: It's the GUNZ. They'll drive ya' crazy.
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2015, 04:37:55 PM »
Probably some automatic thing where any 911 caller within some short distance from the school mentions the word (cover your ears folks, I'm going to use the G word) gun, they throw the lockdown switch.  Not that it makes sense either, but it saves a lot of thinking.
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Re: It's the GUNZ. They'll drive ya' crazy.
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2015, 04:53:11 PM »
It's July.  Aren't the kids supposed to be out falling off of their skateboards  ???
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« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2015, 06:54:46 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2015, 09:07:02 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on July 08, 2015, 04:53:11 PM
It's July.  Aren't the kids supposed to be out falling off of their skateboards holed up in the basement playing Xbox and swearing at everyone online ???

FTFY.
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2015, 12:31:14 AM »
Quote from: erictank on July 10, 2015, 09:07:02 AM
It's July.  Aren't the kids supposed to be out falling off of their skateboards holed up in the basement playing Xbox and swearing at everyone online  ???

Actually, that would be Jamis.
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2015, 01:00:08 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on July 08, 2015, 04:53:11 PM
It's July.  Aren't the kids supposed to be out falling off of their skateboards  ???

Summer school
Elective summer academic programs and "camps"
Pre K programs (it is an elementary school)
Athletic programs
Programs for at risk and low income kids

Basically, a whole lot of reasons for the school to still be occupied during summer break.
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2015, 07:21:52 AM »
Much of Kalifornia runs on year round school.

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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2015, 11:21:44 AM »
Quote from: jamisjockey on July 12, 2015, 07:21:52 AM
Much of Kalifornia runs on year round school.



So what's the next step - the state keeping the kids 24/7 ???
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2015, 04:57:22 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on July 12, 2015, 11:21:44 AM
So what's the next step - the state keeping the kids 24/7 ???

As a former parent, the idea is tempting - at least on the surface.  Lebensborn would never happen here. [tinfoil]

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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.
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