No, as tragic as it is I won\u2019t call the mass murder at the Nashville school a tragedy. Atrocity is a better term. The intentional murder of the helpless, particularly children, is nothing less than a God-damned atrocity. (And I use that term advisedly: refer to the Sixth Commandment.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are hearing people blame the transgender movement. I disagree. We are hearing \u201cit must be those awful psychotropic drugs again.\u201d Actually, in cases where those medications have been involved, the real problem is generally whatever required professionals to prescribe psych meds in the first place. And of course, we\u2019re hearing \u201cban AR15s,\u201d as if suicidal\/homicidal murderers wouldn\u2019t find a way to access all the deadly force they needed to carry out their evil deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don\u2019t know all we need to know yet, of course, but current reports are that six innocents were shot within a time of fourteen minutes between the first 9-1-1 call and the moment when the courageous cops not only ran to the sound of the guns, but silenced them. The last of the criminal gunfire appears to have been the murderer shooting at arriving police from inside the building. True to form, when Good Guys With Guns get on the scene, the slaughter of the innocent ceases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Six deaths within that time-frame is not a lot. Given the helpless nature of the victims, a single-shot shotgun could have delivered the same or greater death count. Hell, in theory, the killer could have done it with a single-shot muzzle-loading flintlock musket of Revolutionary War vintage. From what I heard on the bodycam video of the responding heroes, the killer\u2019s last shots were fired at a pace I\u2019ve seen exceeded with 1866 Old West lever action rifles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nashville Metro is one of the best trained law enforcement agencies in the nation, but they cannot change the time\/space continuum. Scotty can\u2019t beam them down to the shooting scene instantly from the Starship Enterprise.I am told that Tennessee law makes it illegal for school personnel to be armed, no matter how trained and competent and willing to fight for the children they might be. If one of the first adults to face the deadly intruder had been armed and knew how to use a gun, it might well have been over in fourteen seconds, <\/em>not fourteen minutes, and the only corpse would have been that of the lost soul who came there to die anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, as tragic as it is I won\u2019t call the mass murder at the Nashville school a tragedy. Atrocity is a better term. The intentional murder of the helpless, particularly children, is nothing less than a God-damned atrocity. (And I use that term advisedly: refer to the Sixth Commandment.) We are hearing people blame the transgender […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7738,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions\/7738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}