{"id":82252,"date":"2022-05-25T07:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82252"},"modified":"2022-05-25T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:12:11","slug":"obligatory-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82252","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While Berg’s 18th Law<\/a> is still in full effect regarding the Uvalde shooting, it appears that many of the usual check-marks apply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kid appears to have been bullied, and pretty troubled – in the sort of way that checks off some really tired cultural checkboxes. Berg’s 18th Law<\/a> requires we treat all such revelations skeptically, and so I shall – but given what I’ve seen so far, the media will drop all conversation about the shooter by Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While 30% of Texas schools allow teachers and other staff to legally carry their personal, concealed firearms, Uvalde and\/or Robb were not among them. At the roughly 1,000 school districts in the US that allow teachers to carry their legally permitted concealed firearms, there were exactly zero deaths, or violent incidents of any kind, for about the 7,000th day in a row<\/a>. But don’t you dare suggest that as a viable approach; that’s worse than dead kids, to today’s left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I put out my thoughts and prayers to the people of Uvalde, and to every parent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing that is, by the way, a “dog whistle” to much of the left. “WE DONOT NEED YER THOTS N PRYAERS, WE NEED AKSHEN” is usually how that goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s geometrically wrong, of course. Thoughts and prayers – or, if you prefer, analysis and reflection – is exactly what is needed when you face a seemingly intractable problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of our society has never gotten that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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