Dumb panic is now A-OK

[Chairboy]

See Rules #4, #5

[john9001]

america, land of the fearful, home of the unbrave.

[cav58d]

I'd rather be fearful and investigate everything, than fearless and wrong.

[Debonair]

i'll investigate them beer cans with a substance in them:aok :aokbeer:aok

[cav58d]

Prior to 5 & 1/2 years ago we would have all called it crazy investigations to think commercial airliners would be used as tools of war.  Or to think that a box cutter was a dominate weapon.  Or a large battery and some wires could be disguised as a bomb and control hundreds.  Or a match put to to sole of a shoe could kill hundreds...Or how about a bottle of vitamin water mixed with KY gelly creating a massive chemical reaction?  5 and 1/2 years ago, all of those would be dumb to investigate.  So where do you draw your line on legitimate and Ludicrous?

[john9001]

""Terrorism is a term used to describe violence or other harmful acts committed (or threatened) against civilians by groups or persons for political or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those acts which are: intended to create fear or "terror," are perpetrated for a political goal (as opposed to a hate crime or "madman" attack), and deliberately target "non-combatants".""


if you are afraid , they have won.

[BTW]

Originally posted by Chairboy
See Rules #4, #5

Thats not the case but you've pretty much demonstrated you don't want to know why certain situations are suspicious and others aren't. You just want to be right, and you want to be right by calling people fraidy cats and not presenting a reason. You lost the other argument because your point made no sense. You had to resort to name calling, and its revisited here.

Now if you really want me to explain how unidentified liquid in a can on a porch is different than unidentified electronic devices placed on the support beams of overpasses, I will. But quite frankly, I think its fairly obvious you are trying to group two unlike incidents.


Whereas its very uncommon to have unidentified electronic devices on the support beams of overpasses, its fairly common to have cans with unidentified liquids on a porch.  That seems apparent to me.

Try the gun website on your own. You can do it:D

[Wes14]

Conversation about gun website shuts down school

Oh my *bleep*ing god...

is it me or is school "officials"(90% are hired idiots/mooks) are getting even dumber



wish a conversation about guns could shut down my school:furious

[Shuckins]

Some of the conversations my buds and I had at school would have made those school administrators go catatonic:

"Man...I hit that sucker at 300 yards."

"Have any trouble trackin' him down?"

"Nah...he left a good blood trail.  Didn't go far either."

"Didn't take more'n ten minutes to skin him out.  Skinnin' knife had a good gut-hook on it."
 
"Ya'll goin' back this weekend?"

"Yep...but I got to buy some more shells.  All I got left is 150 grain Remington Core-locks....but they don't put em down quick enough to suit me."

[Wes14]

same here Shuckins

hell once the school finds out about some ppl going on my site and looking at the page of some weapons i like and what i think about them...those school officials would probably crap themselfs

[lasersailor184]

Originally posted by Wes14

Oh my *bleep*ing god...

is it me or is school "officials"(90% are hired idiots/mooks) are getting even dumber



wish a conversation about guns could shut down my school:furious

If you read the story, you'd realize that it wasn't the school officials who did it, but a parent.  A parent heard about it, and then called into a news station.

The situation blew up, rumors took over and the school officials decided to cancel school in order to not have chaos on their hands.

[boxboy28]

Nice find Chairboy!    LOL you guys gotta realize PICKENS is an area thats not know for the bightest bulbs in the pack! and they still keep it in the family if ya know what i mean!  


Sad to admit it but i live 20 miles north of there in NC.

[Wes14]

dont u mean the dimmest bulbs in the pack?

[Kieran]

Chairboy,

A man walked into an Amish school, took all the girl students captive, assaulted a couple, then killed himself. Straight outta the blue.

Now say what you want about "fraidy cats", but parents WILL be concerned about their kids whenever guns are discussed at school. If you haven't been paying attention the last few years, I'm sorry. Whackos walking into public schools and opening fire seems to be the suicide du jour.

More to the point, this is misrepresented. The parent called a news station. No chance for the school to do anything at all but avoid a panic, which would have been far worse. Many of the kids would have been pulled out because of parents' concerns anyway. Always, ALWAYS better safe than sorry.

I used to be against gun control. No more. I am a teacher in a small town elementary school; I know there isn't a darn thing we can do to stop any crazy from walking in off the street and pumping a few rounds into some kids before he ends himself. And, sadly, it's happened all too often these last 10 years.

Times change; when too many people abuse rights, then rights have to be limited. Sad, but true.

[Wes14]

legalize concealed handguns for teachers?