Creating a sociopathic nation
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South Florida Voters Waiting 4 Hours to Vote Early
The early voting window was reduced by Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott from 14 to 8 days, or from 120 to 96 hours.
South Florida Voters Waiting 4 Hours to Vote Early - ABC News
The early voting window was reduced by Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott from 14 to 8 days, or from 120 to 96 hours.
South Florida Voters Waiting 4 Hours to Vote Early - ABC News
Paragould is a city in Greene County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 26,113 at the 2010 U.S. Census. The city's name is a blend combining the last names of competing railroad magnates J.W. Paramore and Jay Gould
So I must ask, how much crime could a town of 26 thousand have?
In response to a recent increase in crime, Paragould Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd Stovall offered residents at a town hall meeting Thursday night at West View Baptist Church what could be considered an extreme solution — armed officers patrolling the streets on foot.
"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."
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http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2012/12/15/top_story/doc50cbbb312e241511092932.txt
So I must ask, how much crime could a town of 26 thousand have?
In response to a recent increase in crime, Paragould Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd Stovall offered residents at a town hall meeting Thursday night at West View Baptist Church what could be considered an extreme solution — armed officers patrolling the streets on foot.
"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."
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http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2012/12/15/top_story/doc50cbbb312e241511092932.txt
....& further down in the LINK above this post:
"The only people who are really going to be impacted by this are mostly the unknowns," Gaskill said.
The mayor said the street crimes unit would not be positioned to cause problems for law-abiding
residents.
"We just want to make a presence out there for the criminal element," Gaskill said. "And we want
to make a presence for the people who are concerned and give them a sense of security."
Gaskill added he was not concerned about potential profiling by the police department. Even
though Stovall had said police would enter neighborhoods with the highest crime rates, Gaskill
said officers would respond to where they received calls.
"It would be based on where people have called us and said things are going on in our
neighborhood," he said.
Gaskill made clear Friday that when residents called about problems in their neighborhoods,
they needed to provide police with information.
"Give us a description — what kinds of clothes they're wearing, [license] plate number.
We'll be looking for descriptions," he said.
City Attorney Allen Warmath echoed Gaskill's statements on Friday.
"The only people who are really going to be impacted by this are mostly the unknowns," Gaskill said.
The mayor said the street crimes unit would not be positioned to cause problems for law-abiding
residents.
"We just want to make a presence out there for the criminal element," Gaskill said. "And we want
to make a presence for the people who are concerned and give them a sense of security."
Gaskill added he was not concerned about potential profiling by the police department. Even
though Stovall had said police would enter neighborhoods with the highest crime rates, Gaskill
said officers would respond to where they received calls.
"It would be based on where people have called us and said things are going on in our
neighborhood," he said.
Gaskill made clear Friday that when residents called about problems in their neighborhoods,
they needed to provide police with information.
"Give us a description — what kinds of clothes they're wearing, [license] plate number.
We'll be looking for descriptions," he said.
City Attorney Allen Warmath echoed Gaskill's statements on Friday.
- RCS ... Yes indeed, whenever there is a mass murder or anything else unpleasant occuring in the US the usual left wingers leap into action with an anti-American thread about the evils of what they see as an overly conservative, overly capitalist, overly religious, overly aggressive society. Not surprisngly, they are utterly silent in regard to the daily miseries inflicted by left wing tin pot dictators over their enslaved and repressed and suffering subjects in dozens of countries around the world.
- In regard to the latest tragedy, the anti-American lefties will NOT tell you the following inconvenient truths:
1/ Except in a few places like Obama's stomping ground of Chicago, violent crime including murders continues to decline in the US and is now at the lowest level since JFK was president fifty years ago.
2/ Connecticut where this carnage occured has among the toughest gun control laws in the country and they actually worked in the first instance recently when Lanza applied to purchase some guns and a background check resulted in him being refused the weapons he sought.
3/ Lanza's mother with whom he lived did have several sophisticated firearms which she legally aquired (and she could have legally aquired the same or similar weapons in Canada) as a stable and mature adult citizen wishing to persue her hobby of competitive target shooting.
4/ Perhaps she failed to securely lock these weapons up and away from her son or perhaps her son forced her to open the safe or other secure storage unit for the weapons. Since both parties are now dead, we'll never know for sure which is the case.
5/ Five of the twelve most horrific mass shootings in US history have occured on Obama's watch, all of them by obvious nutjobs, and perhaps the explosion of violent video games and the tendency of socially alientated young men to play them plus the miserable jobless recovery and the increasing polarization of Americans by race and riches and religion and region are all contributing factors.
- Personally, I think ready, aim, fire is better than ready, fire, aim in policy making so I would like to first see an independent and bipartisan commission established to study and report back before any new policy action is taken. However, I would certainly like such a commission to consider tougher laws regulating who is allowed to purchase guns of any kind (Canada has a pretty good template in this regard) plus a ban on assault rifles and other rapid, multiple fire weapons plus a national registry of those with criminal records and mental illnesses who would automatically be denied guns of any kind plus the provision in public educational institutions of a suitably security cleared and trained and armed individual who would be able to shoot and disable or kill attackers before they are able to murder large numbers of innocent students.
- It is almost ironic that schools today have someone on their staff who is responsible as a first aid person and someone who is responsible as a fire safety warden but nobody who is responsible and trained and equipped to deal with violent assaults. In the latest tragedy, the young principal threw herself at the gunman to save the students and was shot dead for her pains. Wouldn't it have made more sense to have someone on site able to actually respond effectively in kind to this dispicable attack?
This thread was posted on September 10th. It wasn't in response to anything unpleasant, except from the authors point of view of the rise of the sociopathic right...adjust your soap box.
- I am fully aware of the date on which the thread was launched. But it was renewed by, quelle surprise, tay on the day of the carnage in Connecticut and several posts have since been added to it. Therefore, I rather suspect that a new thread would have been created along the same lines of blaming and bashing the fictional sociopathic right had the existing thread not been conveniently available.
- Now, why don;t you surprise me and actually add something intelligent in support or opposition or addition to the points I have raised.
- TS ... Interesting! One thing I can guarantee is that had that pretty young principal been properly trained and armed when she courageously threw herself in the path of the gunman, there is a significant chance that she and some or all of the other 25 people slain at the school would be alive today.
What did the kid in Connecticut have in common with most of the other mass murderers? A young white guy. Things in America aren't going very well for young white guys any more.