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School Security: AI Can Enhance Situational Awareness, But Relying on Technology Alone Can Be Deadly
I recently came across a press release from a company called ZeroEyes. They make AI-powered gun detection technology. The company is touting their system being installed at a school. While technology can be a great way to augment situational awareness, we need to be careful to not get lulled into a false sense of security from such systems. Knowing of a threat and actually doing something about it are two very different things.
Academics Want Kids to Know That Toy Guns are Dangerous and Could Turn Them Into Violent Killers
By Frederick Rivara, University of Washington and Laura Prater, University of Washington
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Why don’t parents like their kids to play with fake guns? – Henry, age 11, Somerville, Massachusetts
A major reason parents don’t like kids to play with pretend guns is they’re afraid you’ll get hurt.
Nashville PD Bodycam Video Shows Cops Running Toward the Sound of Gunfire
The Bravery of the Nashville Metro PD on full display in this body cam video charging in and taking out this mentally deranged psychopath.. These are what true warriors and heroes look like. We can never thank men like this enough… pic.twitter.com/FzTsTpEMiW
— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) March 28, 2023
Watch the video above with the sound on to hear the communication between the responding Nashville Police Department officers arriving at the New Covenant School and then moving through the building.
I’m a Mom Too and Yes, Guns Belong in Schools
The bodies of the dead were not yet cold in the wake of an active killer spree at a Nashville, Tennessee, Christian school when it happened. Law enforcement had given brief statements, doling out dribs and drabs of information, and a spectator decided to get involved. She was an unidentified woman who claimed she was, coincidentally, in the area vacationing with her school-age children (spring break is over, but whatever).
An anti-gun lobbyist just hijacked Nashville police’s press conference on this morning’s shooting at a private Christian school that left six dead.
Continue reading I’m a Mom Too and Yes, Guns Belong in Schools at The Truth About Guns.
Biden After News of the Nashville Shooting: Where’s My Ice Cream?
“My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband,” Biden said from the White House’s East Room in his first public appearance since a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three students and three teachers at a Christian private school in Nashville. “I eat Jeni’s ice cream — chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream,” he continued. “By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs,” he added.
Nashville Police Release Video of Audrey Hale Shooting Her Way Into the Covenant School
Nashville school shooter’s chilling final messages to pal revealed: ‘I’m planning to die’ https://t.co/c333iBC74V pic.twitter.com/p8CuMTkIXK
— New York Post (@nypost) March 28, 2023
By Jonathan Matisse, Travis Loller and Holly Meyer, AP
The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three adults had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre.
Gun Meme of the Day: Fudd Starter Pack Edition
I mean, it’s just bump stocks. It’s just pistol braces. It’s just threaded barrels. It’s just steel core ammo. It’s just standard capacity magazines. It’s just bayonet lugs. It’s just semi-auto firearms. It’s just AR-platform guns. It’s just black guns. Okay, okay, here’s your fanny pack and photographer’s vest.
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Defining Deviancy Down: Being Victimized by Criminals is Now a ‘Basic City Life Experience’
Most Americans understand that our country has had a problem with a surge in crime over the last couple of years. In response, there has been a surge in gun purchases, and millions of law-abiding citizens have become first-time gun owners, as they understand that one of the most effective tools to better ensure their safety, and the safety of their loved ones, is a firearm.
Another way to better ensure the safety of American citizens is with an effective criminal justice system.
EAA Announces the New Girsan MC 14T .380 Tilt Barrel Pistol
From EAA . . .
Florida based company, European American Armory Corporation, the world’s leading importer of European firearms has made it their mission to bring the U.S. consumer firearms that are on the cutting edge of technology and quality. The new MC 14T by Girsan focuses on ease of use and high capacity in a very compact design.
Thanks to the Tip-Up design (no slide racking required) loading and firing the MC 14T is simple and quick, using very minimal moving parts to go from loading to firing.
Pro Tip: Conservatives Shouldn’t Use Anti-Gun Talking Points to Own the Libs
In a segment about armed LGBT people (particularly transgender people) in New Hampshire, Tucker Carlson pulled out some well-worn talking points we’re used to seeing here at The Truth About Guns. While everybody clearly has a right to their opinions about any topic, including the media and LGBT people, it’s never a good idea for someone who supports gun rights, as Carlson does, to use anti-gunners’ arguments to score a few cheap points against your ideological opponents.
Female Shooter Reported Killed By Police After Murdering 5 in Nashville School Shooting
Police say they shot and killed a female suspect in a shooting at the The Covenant School this morning in Nashville, Tennessee. They report that the unidentified shooter killed three children and two adults before police arrived engaged her.
An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd.
Obscure Object of Desire: Interarms Mark X Rifle
I grew up with pump shotguns and bolt action rifles, with a smattering of lever guns mixed in. The only semi-auto we ever had was a Marlin Model 60. As I grew, I rebelled. I got into semi-auto firearms and kind of ignored bolt guns…until recently.
I’ve discovered I have got a soft spot for intermediate-caliber bolt action rifles. Maybe I’m cheap, and .223 is cheap, but what’s cheaper? How about 7.62×39? When I stumbled across the Interarms Mark X in 7.62x39mm I thought I’d found one of the old Zastava M85 Mini Mausers.
Continue reading Obscure Object of Desire: Interarms Mark X Rifle at The Truth About Guns.
Washington State Double Murder Shows the Problem is a Failure to Prosecute and Incarcerate, Not a Lack of Gun Laws
By Gene Johnson, AP
Kirkland Warren was out on bail pending a long-delayed murder trial in Arkansas. But when he was arrested in southwestern Washington state early this month on charges that he assaulted his ex-girlfriend and fired a gunshot into her apartment, he quickly posted bond and was released again.
Just a few days later, his ex-girlfriend, Meshay Melendez, 27, and her 7-year-old daughter, Layla Stewart, vanished. Police named Warren a person of interest in their disappearance.
Dem Amendment to Open Florida Legislature to Concealed Carry Voted Down by GOP Majority
[ED: The permitless carry bill passed the Florida House yesterday. It’s expected to get a vote of the full Senate next week.]
Among the amendments rejected by the GOP included one from Orlando Democrat Anna Eskamani, which would have repealed the prohibition of carrying weapons into meetings of the Legislature – a proposal dubbed by St. Petersburg Rep. Michele Rayner-Goolsby as the “good for the goose, good for the gander” amendment.
In Cutting Programs to Cover Mounting Administrative and Legal Costs, the NRA Risks Losing Even More Members
Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
The National Rifle Association’s financial firepower, which arose in part due to its large and loyal membership base, has long been one of the gun group’s main sources of strength.
But the NRA has in recent years faced a financial tsunami, one that came to light after the 2016 election. A swirl of disagreements with longtime business partners, accusations of waste and misspending, ballooning debt and lawsuits from the New York and Washington, D.C.
LA’s Woke, Soft-On-Crime DA Is America’s Worst Salesman for More Gun Control Laws
By Mark Oliva
Let the gun control zealots defend this. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón had to be shamed into doing his job to protect his community from a would-be school murderer.
DA Gascón refused to bring charges against a teen who allegedly posted threats against a school on social media and was allegedly caught carrying stolen guns. His team of lawyers claimed there wasn’t enough information of the criminal threat.
The Time Has Come for Reparations for New York City Residents Who Have Been Deprived of Their Second Amendment Rights
Guilt is a powerful emotion. So powerful, in fact, that an American city is considering impoverishing itself and future generations of its citizens in order to absolve itself of guilt, achieve some kind of perceived redemption, and display for all the world its exemplary virtue as it atones for a wrong that…no one in the city either committed or experienced.
California became a state in 1850, just 11 years before the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter.
Quick and Simple: How to Zero Your Rifle in Only One Shot (Well…Almost)
There are few things more frustrating than wasting good ammo trying to get your rifle zeroed. If you just can’t seem to find the paper or can’t chase that zero down, turning expensive ammunition into nothing but noise gets old really fast.
Since I’m constantly bolting optics onto loaner rifles, I thought I’d share how I get zeroed at 100 yards with as few rounds fired as possible.
Open Carry Amendment to Florida Permitless Carry Bill Withdrawn After 48 Hours
By Lee Williams
Florida’s quest for full-blown constitutional carry has garnered the attention of the nation’s pro-gun movement and drawn the ire of the gun-ban industry.
Twenty-five states have already passed constitutional carry, so Florida could become the “majority state,” which terrifies those opposed to civil rights.
Two bills are rocketing through the state legislature in Tallahassee: HB 543 and SB 150, and Gov. Ron DeSantis has promised to sign whatever the Republican super-majority in the legislature can get to this desk.