Thoughts on tonights vote on guns in schools. Why do some think this is a good idea again?

I got my cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelon, and herbs all in. I was in the back yard thinking about the scenarios of the gunfight Glenn Jacobs and Betsy Henderson appear to be instigating and instituting in their long term goals for Bearden. My neighborhood is in the line of fire.

The problem with a weapon like the M&P 15 Sport 3 is that it's only real purpose is human casualty. It is a weapon of war with limited purpose beyond that. It is what it is. There are a lot of people and places that have a need for such weaponry in this world and I'm thankful Knoxville isn't one of them.

I found the Mayor's public endorsement of that weapon abhorrent and irresponsible as well as a terrorist act in and of itself since it clearly advanced a political position over the general welfare of the public. Fact of the matter is, those style weapons are the overwhelming choice of school shooters and they really don't have much of a purpose in America beyond that. One used to have to have an FFL to own one, I don't know why that changed.

Now we are presented a conundrum for the School Board. Will the Board advocate for a shootout with a gunman and teachers, or will the School Board attempt to work with trained, coordinated professionals, such as our Sheriff's and Police Departments offer? Because that's where the ultimate consequences of tonight vote will take us.

I've seen this PR/propaganda technique before. It's the same stuff they used to teach English Majors who couldn't type fast enough to get into the college of communications. It the same one Jacobs used to convince a pretty decent community that it was okay to infect everyone with a deadly disease. This is the brainwashing technique where the people in charge talk you into sacrificing a child so they can advance their political career. This is where they justify it by claiming it hardly ever happens and it's only one or two kids. This is where they talk you into being a part of the mob thats willing to kill children to advance their cause. And historically, at least in my time in Knoxville, this is where it normally ends. It's not like that here anymore.

The AR-15 style weapons use a smaller mass at a higher velocity than those standard in rifles before it. It is a weapon designed to created casualty, that is to say maim as well as kill, for the specific purpose of occupying troops with the care of their wounded. It doesn't have much purpose as a general weapon here though because of our vegetation and terrain. Generally speaking, a bigger mass is preferred to reduce the effects of deflection. That higher velocity creates a specific set of problems in an urban environment. Which gets back to the line of fire under the set of circumstances Betsy Henderson and Glenn Jacobs appear to be advocating.

From Bearden, anything within sight line or deflection from a tree within sight line and beyond is at risk from a high velocity discharge. The risk is greater and the capacity for discharging more rounds is greater. Simple math baby. It's a pretty simple problem that should be addressed with a pretty simple solution. In as strong language as possible we must let it be known that this is not what we want in schools, period. Seems like there's some disagreement on this issue.

The County Law Director might also want to consider explaining some of the finer points of The Patriot Act To our County Mayor as those points relate to motive.

As to being in the line of fire. There's everyone who lives here of course as well as their kids, grandkids and visitors. From a 360 degree angle you'd probably have 20,000 or so extra folks at risk from a high velocity high capacity weapon. And we hear occasional gunfire now. I don't like and I don't think my neighbors do either. Now here's the situation. The math does exist to figure out how these various responses work and what different propaganda campaigns achieve. We know allowing these sorts of campaigns leads to social breakdowns, we saw this when we had to bring in refrigerated trucks and the National Guard to handle our sick, dying and dead. That's the situation Glenn Jacobs and Betsy Henderson staged with their handling of covid. Now they want to come in on the side of being soft on allowing weapons in schools. Escalating violence does not work and students will die as a direct result of this administrative action just as they died on the last administration action where she condemned multiple students to death. What your govertnment leaders do matters.

It's up to you whether to hold them accountable.

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