Antcident on Ninth Street
Jul. 14th, 2016 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. Every summer we get ants. It's hard to blame the little assholes when you have a heat index of 103. But this is the first time they've invaded the cabinet part of the kitchen, and it is fucking annoying, my friends, because who wants to spray poison in the cabinets that hold food? Not I. They do die beautifully in Clorox, though.
2. We're almost at the end of our Treme rewatch with friends who haven't seen it before. Damn, this show is good. I'm sorry to see it dwindling down. We've only got five episodes left.
3. We had active shooter training this week which scared the beejeesus out of me among other things. Ever since mass shooting became more popular, especially on college campuses, I have wondered how I would fare in such a situation, if I would have the courage to protect my students and acquit myself admirably or if my hind brain would emerge and I'd just think about myself. This training does not help me answer that question.
It does, however, bring up an interesting point. Georgia was poised to adopt a campus carry law, and our Republican governor inexplicably and blessedly vetoed the bill. I am against people being able to carry guns on college campuses for a variety of reasons, but the instructor of our training brought up another. This police officer was almost certainly local which means almost certainly Republican, conservative, Evangelical Christian. But he also has been extensively trained in active shooter scenarios, beginning in the immediate aftermath of Virginia Tech by the FBI responding team. And he stood up before us and said this: "I had nightmares the entire time until Governor Deal vetoed Campus Carry. I saw myself entering a building with an active shooter and facing numerous students, staff, and faculty who are also armed. Not only would I not be able to tell who the bad guy is, I'd have to stop every single person with a gun and cuff them, allowing the active shooter to potentially kill more people and preventing people from getting medical attention because medical personnel can't come in until we clear the building."
2. We're almost at the end of our Treme rewatch with friends who haven't seen it before. Damn, this show is good. I'm sorry to see it dwindling down. We've only got five episodes left.
3. We had active shooter training this week which scared the beejeesus out of me among other things. Ever since mass shooting became more popular, especially on college campuses, I have wondered how I would fare in such a situation, if I would have the courage to protect my students and acquit myself admirably or if my hind brain would emerge and I'd just think about myself. This training does not help me answer that question.
It does, however, bring up an interesting point. Georgia was poised to adopt a campus carry law, and our Republican governor inexplicably and blessedly vetoed the bill. I am against people being able to carry guns on college campuses for a variety of reasons, but the instructor of our training brought up another. This police officer was almost certainly local which means almost certainly Republican, conservative, Evangelical Christian. But he also has been extensively trained in active shooter scenarios, beginning in the immediate aftermath of Virginia Tech by the FBI responding team. And he stood up before us and said this: "I had nightmares the entire time until Governor Deal vetoed Campus Carry. I saw myself entering a building with an active shooter and facing numerous students, staff, and faculty who are also armed. Not only would I not be able to tell who the bad guy is, I'd have to stop every single person with a gun and cuff them, allowing the active shooter to potentially kill more people and preventing people from getting medical attention because medical personnel can't come in until we clear the building."
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Date: 2016-07-15 05:38 am (UTC)about #4: that was a problem in dallas. several people were taking advantage of the open carry law & there was confusion over who the shooter was.
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Date: 2016-07-15 02:48 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2016-07-16 05:08 pm (UTC)Maybe it's because I'm in California but I've never met or even heard of anyone in law enforcement who didn't support better gun control laws. People who are in favor of open carry anywhere are kidding themselves if they think it makes our society safer.
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Date: 2016-07-17 09:51 pm (UTC)My dad wore a T-shirt when I visited them that said, "Guns and the Bible. Two things they don't teach in school and should."
He's not a cop, and I guess I don't really know what the vast majority of cops down here think about it, but everybody else thinks everyone should be armed. Well, not black people.
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Date: 2016-07-17 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-17 09:49 pm (UTC)I haven't had an incident like this in a while (several years), but I've been cussed out by students before and etc. Being in that situation with guns? Oh, hell no.
i just thought of this
Date: 2016-07-18 08:32 pm (UTC)Re: i just thought of this
Date: 2016-07-19 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-19 05:45 am (UTC)Heh. Yeah. Ants: I love them in theory, but God, they are such a nuisance in your house!
Forreals. Shivers down my spine. You just know it's another MRA, another École Polytechnique Massacre because some loser dude hates smart and successful women with a bright future.
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Date: 2016-07-19 10:53 pm (UTC)It's very frightening.
I hate that feeling I have that it's just a matter of time before something like this happens on our campus, like it's inevitable or something. *shudders*