NYer

You know Brits have a tendency to go native, don't you?

zzrmark

Guns aren't banned in the UK but you have to show good reason why you need to own that double barrelled shotgun, at least you do if you want the permit to possess it....

scrubbedexpat099

Say's it all

mrken30

Move to California if you want stricter gun controls. I was trying to make the point that some States deem pumping gas more dangerous than owning a gun. This is what I am trying to get my head around.

caretaker

Thank the Black Panthers for that, the Mulford Act was a response to them and their right to bear arms.

mrken30

Sarah

Reminds me of something I saw on a different site, "Every black man in the US needs to go out and buy an AR-15 assault rifle. They'll be banned by Tuesday."

spouse of scouse

I don't think it does. Put a graphic of the lawmakers up and I'd agree.

dakota44

A message to Melania from a Parkland student.

"Hey @FLOTUS you say that your mission as First Lady is to stop cyber bullying," 14-year-old Lauren Hogg tweeted Friday. "Well then, don't you think it would have been smart to have a convo with your step-son @DonaldJTrumpJr before he liked a post about a false conspiracy theory which in turn put a target on my back."

dakota44

Talk about disgusting. When Parkland police arrive on the scene.....4 sheriffs deputies were hiding behind their cars with guns drawn and not one had entered the building. Hope they are all fired.

Former Lancastrian

Tactical repositioning as explained on the TIO thread about shootings and would you have gone in for the 56K a year not knowing what you were up against?

anotherlimey

Tactical repositioning? Lol.

These days they're told to confront an active shooter asap.

Former Lancastrian

Even if the active shooter has hostages?
Do you have a link for this claim or is it just implied that this will happen?

I did find this in a Washington Post article about active shooters

“We teach that the first priority when you come on scene is to stop the killing,” said Pete Blair, executive director of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University and one of the nation’s top experts on active shooter training.
However later in the article he says this about the Las Vegas shooting
Blair said that situation was different in that officers couldn’t see their target, didn’t know if hostages were involved, and couldn’t just fire blindly down a hallway.

So what should they have done?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.49435a814797

N1cky

But teachers are expected to take that on?

Former Lancastrian

Well according to the Big Cheeto they love their pupils/students and some are former members of the military and law enforcement and of course they would put themselves on the front line in carrying a concealed weapon to confront an active shooter regardless of what they are paid to do.