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Once again...nothing to be done but prayers and thoughts
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Parkland, Florida is pretty close to Irvine
Parkland:
Median income: $128,292
Per Capital Income: $54,337
Percent Poverty: 3.5%
HS grad: 96%
Bachelor Degree: 58%
Irvine:
Median Income: $93,823
Per Capita: $45,120
Poverty: 1.2%
HS grad: 96.6
Bachelor Deg: 68%
Marjorj Stoneman Douglas High: No. 623
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/florida/districts/broward-county-public-schools/marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-4749
Northwood: 304
University High: 340
Woodbridge: 657
Irvine High: 1447
There Were Three School Shootings This Year, Not 18. That?s Still Too Many.
Any number of school shootings is too many. And, at this time when we are so rightly hurting at yesterday?s brutality in Parkland, Fla., a sensationalist report has gone viral, claiming that there have been 18 such acts this year alone. The factoid has been promoted by countless major media and political figures, as well as by celebrities. Indeed, such a number would mean an unprecedented crisis. But it?s not true.
The original source of the figure is Mike Bloomberg?s gun-control advocacy organization, Everytown for Gun Safety. The organization arrives at the figure by defining a ?school shooting? as any time a gun is fired at or near a school, college, or university, regardless of whether students are present or anyone is injured. In fact, if one counts only events where a shooter enters a school and shoots someone, there have been three school shootings, including yesterday?s. (The other spree shooting was in Kentucky and a murder happened at a school in Texas.) This information is viewable on Everytown?s site itself, as a click on any location reveals the details and news sources of the incident in question.
Everytown?s list includes incidents such as an adult committing suicide in the parking lot of a school that had long been closed down and gun violence in the neighborhood where California State University?San Bernardino is located (it is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country, with California?s second-highest murder rate.) While such acts are obviously cause for concern in their own right, all that conflating these incidents with ?school shootings? does is to create a climate of terror.
Suicide and violent crime are very real social problems, but they are not the same thing as school shootings.
Read more at:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456479/18-school-shootings-2018-viral-stat-wrong
I read somewhere that school did have an armed security guard, but with a school that size, one person can't be very effective. Better to just make school uniforms that have bullet proof vests.
Does anyone remember the story about the UCI professor and Uni? If he had actually been serious, I don't think one for even two armed security would have made much difference in a big open campus.
Don't underestimate the samurai sword. Two Japanese soldiers killed over 100 Chinese civilians with a samuari sword in a contest in Nanking China in 1937:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Contest_To_Cut_Down_100_People.jpg
Sigh ... why do you make me work so hard ... thought it was obvious to everyone
We are NOT talking about war crimes
If once in a 100 years -- we get a samurai style mass killer that is so skilled -- that he or she can achieve the same murderous "effect " as an unskilled madman with an AR-15 --- that risk is much much less than any wacko out there who can lay his hands on automatic weapons any day he or she wants
Irvinecommuter
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Burn That Belly said:
Parkland, Florida is pretty close to Irvine
Parkland:
Median income: $128,292
Per Capital Income: $54,337
Percent Poverty: 3.5%
HS grad: 96%
Bachelor Degree: 58%
Irvine:
Median Income: $93,823
Per Capita: $45,120
Poverty: 1.2%
HS grad: 96.6
Bachelor Deg: 68%
Marjorj Stoneman Douglas High: No. 623
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/florida/districts/broward-county-public-schools/marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-4749
Northwood: 304
University High: 340
Woodbridge: 657
Irvine High: 1447
Orange County History Moment:
Did you know the liberal media's current favorite gun the AR-15 was invented right here in Orange County? The Armalite company of Costa Mesa created the AR-15 in the early 1950s. When I was a kid in the 1980s I visited the Armalite office on 16th Street in Costa Mesa and saw some amazing stuff. Too bad Costa Mesa is now more known for pregnant Mainland Chinese ladies than engineering innovation.
Did you know the liberal media's current favorite gun the AR-15 was invented right here in Orange County? The Armalite company of Costa Mesa created the AR-15 in the early 1950s. When I was a kid in the 1980s I visited the Armalite office on 16th Street in Costa Mesa and saw some amazing stuff. Too bad Costa Mesa is now more known for pregnant Mainland Chinese ladies than engineering innovation.
Liar Loan
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Burn That Belly said:
There Were Three School Shootings This Year, Not 18. That?s Still Too Many.
Any number of school shootings is too many. And, at this time when we are so rightly hurting at yesterday?s brutality in Parkland, Fla., a sensationalist report has gone viral, claiming that there have been 18 such acts this year alone. The factoid has been promoted by countless major media and political figures, as well as by celebrities. Indeed, such a number would mean an unprecedented crisis. But it?s not true.
The original source of the figure is Mike Bloomberg?s gun-control advocacy organization, Everytown for Gun Safety. The organization arrives at the figure by defining a ?school shooting? as any time a gun is fired at or near a school, college, or university, regardless of whether students are present or anyone is injured. In fact, if one counts only events where a shooter enters a school and shoots someone, there have been three school shootings, including yesterday?s. (The other spree shooting was in Kentucky and a murder happened at a school in Texas.) This information is viewable on Everytown?s site itself, as a click on any location reveals the details and news sources of the incident in question.
Everytown?s list includes incidents such as an adult committing suicide in the parking lot of a school that had long been closed down and gun violence in the neighborhood where California State University?San Bernardino is located (it is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country, with California?s second-highest murder rate.) While such acts are obviously cause for concern in their own right, all that conflating these incidents with ?school shootings? does is to create a climate of terror.
Suicide and violent crime are very real social problems, but they are not the same thing as school shootings.
Read more at:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456479/18-school-shootings-2018-viral-stat-wrong
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I read somewhere that school did have an armed security guard, but with a school that size, one person can't be very effective. Better to just make school uniforms that have bullet proof vests.
Does anyone remember the story about the UCI professor and Uni? If he had actually been serious, I don't think one for even two armed security would have made much difference in a big open campus.
fortune11 said:
Don't underestimate the samurai sword. Two Japanese soldiers killed over 100 Chinese civilians with a samuari sword in a contest in Nanking China in 1937:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Contest_To_Cut_Down_100_People.jpg
Happiness said:
Sigh ... why do you make me work so hard ... thought it was obvious to everyone
We are NOT talking about war crimes
If once in a 100 years -- we get a samurai style mass killer that is so skilled -- that he or she can achieve the same murderous "effect " as an unskilled madman with an AR-15 --- that risk is much much less than any wacko out there who can lay his hands on automatic weapons any day he or she wants
Ok , lets come back to what hits home to every one on this board -- all the buyers , sellers , renters , real estate agents , mortgage brokers , financial advisors ..
For all the chest thumping about gun rights
which neighborhood is likely to have better desirability --
one full of gun nuts with self defense arsenals in their garages or
one where you have educated "blue leaning" professionals wiling to rely on local police force that is well funded with their taxes , but don't mind keeping an occasional handgun if so inclined .
No need to answer ...
For all the chest thumping about gun rights
which neighborhood is likely to have better desirability --
one full of gun nuts with self defense arsenals in their garages or
one where you have educated "blue leaning" professionals wiling to rely on local police force that is well funded with their taxes , but don't mind keeping an occasional handgun if so inclined .
No need to answer ...
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...l-students-criticize-gop-reaction-to-shooting
Students from high school targeted in mass shooting criticize GOP reaction
Several students at the Florida high school where a gunman killed nearly 20 people Wednesday took to social media in the aftermath of the shooting to criticize Republican leaders and media personalities for their response to the United States' latest mass shooting
Most of the student's anger was directed at President Trump. On Thursday morning, Trump suggested that the suspected shooter was "mentally disturbed" and should've been reported to police more, but made no mention of potential gun control measures.
Some students at the school criticized Trump on social media, with one telling Trump to be quiet "unless you are going to do something about gun control."
Nikolas Cruz, 19, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder Thursday morning after authorities said he opened fire in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than a dozen others.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that Cruz legally purchased the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle he allegedly used in the shooting. Cruz had been kicked out of the school and flagged as a threat.
The students also responded to conservative media personality and Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren, who pushed back on calls for gun control after the shooting by writing that it "isn't about a gun it's about another lunatic."
"I was hiding a closet for 2 hours," one student responded on Twitter. "It was about guns."
A number of students and teachers from the school did interviews late Wednesday in which they called on Congress to act to curb gun violence.
Students from high school targeted in mass shooting criticize GOP reaction
Several students at the Florida high school where a gunman killed nearly 20 people Wednesday took to social media in the aftermath of the shooting to criticize Republican leaders and media personalities for their response to the United States' latest mass shooting
Most of the student's anger was directed at President Trump. On Thursday morning, Trump suggested that the suspected shooter was "mentally disturbed" and should've been reported to police more, but made no mention of potential gun control measures.
Some students at the school criticized Trump on social media, with one telling Trump to be quiet "unless you are going to do something about gun control."
Nikolas Cruz, 19, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder Thursday morning after authorities said he opened fire in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than a dozen others.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that Cruz legally purchased the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle he allegedly used in the shooting. Cruz had been kicked out of the school and flagged as a threat.
The students also responded to conservative media personality and Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren, who pushed back on calls for gun control after the shooting by writing that it "isn't about a gun it's about another lunatic."
"I was hiding a closet for 2 hours," one student responded on Twitter. "It was about guns."
A number of students and teachers from the school did interviews late Wednesday in which they called on Congress to act to curb gun violence.