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Been a VERY busy week and weekend, so the blog bug really isn’t biting.

Still the interesting articles are piling up, so let’s just rip into a bunch of them.

First is this messed up case:

Just this week, such a lapse in judgement occurred. A Vermont grandmother dropped her granddaughter off at a daycare center with a loaded gun inside the diaper bag. As investigators reported, the grandmother was rushing to get the child dropped off in time. She placed the loaded weapon inside the diaper bag and then forgot about it. The gun was loaded, but it was holstered, the safety was on and it had a trigger locking device. The 17-month old girl discovered the gun, proving that a toddler will automatically locate the most dangerous or dirty object in the room.

Fucked up story. First this is the big reason why ALWAYS prefer on-body carry, and make sure that every action they do in the course of the day (like riding in a car, or using the bathroom) that gun remains in their control at all times. If you do carry off-body, in say a purse, bag, or fanny pack, you need to always be conscious that the bag is ALWAYS with you, lest something serious like this happen to you.

Also I have to wonder, what’s the purpose of carrying a gun with a trigger lock? I wonder if it was just some sort of retention holster that was mis-identified.

Next up, more news on the quality of the TSA:

The Rapiscan scanner can see your private parts, but it can’t see your gun.

…The research team — from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the University of California in San Diego — said they managed to conceal guns and “plastic explosive stimulants” from a Rapiscan Secure 1000 scanner.

Good for the TSA, costing us billions of dollars and our 4th Amendment rights, as well as our dignity, for NOTHING!

Disband them YESTERDAY!

Next up is this stupidity

Now that summer is over and school is starting up again, it’s time for the torrent of ridiculous “zero tolerance” suspensions and arrests to resume.

Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina, is wasting no time: A 16-year-old student was arrested and suspended for writing a story in which he used a gun to kill a dinosaur. The student, Alex Stone, was assigned by a teacher to write a story about himself. Stone chose to embellish his story with obviously fictional details, like dinosaurs. But the teacher saw the word “gun” and the rest is history, according to NBC-12:

Man, when I was an early teen I was steeped in the action movies of the 80s and early 90s where the drug narcs were running around killing drug dealers. I spent my free time doodling such violence in my school notebooks, and even submitted a few original stories for class credit. Yep cops shooting drug dealers, with blood, gore, and guns, and I think I got an A.

By the time I was this kid’s age I was writing fiction serials for the school newspaper. Now it was Orcs getting their guts spilled by swords and arrows.

And oddly I’m not a threat to anybody.

So there the tabs are much clearer now!

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One Response to Shortcuts

  1. Daniel in Brookline says:

    Are you serious? That annoying intrusive TSA machine that scans your entire body, and produces nude pictures for them to chortle over and pass around, is really and truly called the Rape-i-scan?

    Well, I’m a big fan of Truth in Advertising. I just didn’t expect them to be so up-front about it. Seriously, this is the most truthfully-named product I’ve seen since the McWrap.

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