Bear Bussjaeger – 2A advocate, writer, firearms policy & law analyst, general observer of pre-apocalyptic American life.

When Idiots Try To Be Reporters

Sheesh, this Adam Mintzer is one of the most oblivious “reporters” I’ve seen lately.

Covenant School Shooting: Would a red flag gun law have made a difference?

No. It would not have. See, there’s this funny thing about petitioning to have someone’s guns confiscated: People rarely petition to take guns they specifically think do not exist.

“Her parents felt she should not have owned weapons, they were under the impression when she sold the one weapon that she did not own anymore,” [ Metro Nashville Police Chief John] Drake said.”

Chumbucket’s parents thought the one gun they she’d once had was already gone.

Mintzer ain’t the brightest bulb in the chandelier. One hopes anyway. I’d hate to think his fellow reporters are even dumber.

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TZP Column: Majority Think

We want an “assault weapon” ban?

“THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THINK”
Cognitively challenged Uncle Gropey Biden purports to know what all Americans think. He doesn’t know what he thinks, even with a teleprompter. (This is the senile, serial plagiarist, serial fabulist who just mistook two pistols and a pistol caliber carbine for two select-fire AK-47 assault rifles.)
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I’m Not Seeing The Problem Here

Texas study finds thousands of pounds of ‘forever chemicals’ have been injected into oil and gas wells
A new study by Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) shows that since at least 2013, oil and gas companies have used more than 21 tons — or 43,000 pounds — of a class of extremely toxic and persistent chemicals, known as per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in Texas. Known for their toxicity at microscopic levels, their multiple negative health effects, including cancer, and their resistance to breaking down in the environment, PFAS are a highly dangerous class of chemicals nicknamed “forever chemicals.”

What’s the big deal? I thought “geologic sequestration” of deadly chemicals is supposed to be great.

Covenant School Observations

As expected, mainstream media is disappearing the transgender aspect, even though the police have said that it appears to have been a factor. ABC and CBS have completely dropped it. NBC mentions “transgender just once, twelve paragraphs down with a simple “Police have said…”

So far MSM is still claiming “two assault rifles,” two “assault-style rifles,” and “two AR-15s.” Gropin’ Joe claimed it was two “AK-47s.”

That’s a bit odd, because the police have already released pictures of the weapons: two pistols and one rifle. Specifically…

PSA Lead Star Arms Grunt braced pistol.

M&P Shield 9mm pistol.

Kel-Tec SUB-2000 pistol caliber carbine. Those come in 9mm or .40S&W. I think the 9mm version may be more common.

Vey notable is the bodycam footage from a couple of responding officers. The video starts with an officer driving up to the school. 3 minutes and 26 seconds later the killer is down, but still moving. By 3:36, the killer is down hard.

I’d liked the way the clearing teams coordinated, both within the teams and with the other teams.

The school did well under the circumstances. I understood they immediately started evacuating kids out to a designated safe(r) area outside. And a staffer waited for the police on the sidewalk with information on the shooter and the keys to the building which were handed over the police.

It’s sad anyone had to die, but since we don’t have instantaneous teleportation, I think the police did damned well.

Finger-Pointing?

The Post Millenial seems to be suggesting that the Nashville police failed to respond to a warning about the Covenant asshole.

Nashville trans shooter sent DMs to friend announcing plans for ‘something bad,’ suicide—police did not respond to friend’s call for help
The report notes that Patton apparently called the Nashville Davidson County Sheriff’s Office at 10:13 am, making them aware of the situation. She was subsequently told to call Nashville’s non-emergency number.

The problem with that suggestion is this:

10:13 a.m.: Nashville Police receive a call of an active shooter inside Covenant School.

By the time Patton made her first call, for a nonemergency, the shooting had already started. The police were already being dispatched to that emergency call. By some reports, they were at the school in two minutes. By all accounts the chumbucket was dead by 10:27.

Patton’s nonemergency call wouldn’t have made a difference, other than possibly helping the police ID the shooter after she was dead.

Barring further data, it looks to me like the Nashville police responded pretty damned fast, did not hesitate to go in and confront the killer — Hey, Uvalde PD; are you taking notes? — and stopped her. All in less than 14 minutes from 911 getting the shooter call.

UPDATE 2: The School Shooting Narrative May Be In Trouble

The Covenant School shooter has been ID’d as (only time I’ll use the name) Audrey Hale, 20yo woman.
UPDATE: Confirmed.

BREAKING: Police confirm female Nashville school shooter identified as transgender

She used the name “Aiden.” I’m seeing lefties on Twitter bitch that people are “dead naming” “him” by calling her Audrey.

I think dead naming is entirely appropriate in this case.

BTW, maybe the Nashville police could teach Uvalde PD how it’s done.

UPDATE 2: This story will vanish by tomorrow morning, because…

Nashville police chief confirms Audrey Hale identifies as transgender, suggests her trans identify played a role: “We have a manifesto … and a map of how all of this was going to play out.”

At a guess, she was crazy for years, got teased in school, and decided to get revenge.

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However…

Don’t consider this confirmed. It looks like it could be real, but you never really know right off.

Funny That

Two deadly incidents, one on the heels of the other.

Seven innocents dead in one. Six innocents dead in the other.

While I’m seeing calls for banning and confiscating firearms from people who didn’t commit the latter, I’ve yet to see a single call for banning chocolate.

TZP Column: Tyrants

TYRANTS GONNA TYRANNIZE
Another shooting with the usual conflicting jumble of ever-changing details, another screech to scrap the Constitution. From a former political cop who clearly never took his oath seriously.

“We had an assault weapons ban here for a number of years, it worked, and you know, when you look at what happened in New Zealand and how quickly that government responded to an incident, it’s just unconscionable that we can’t do something similar.”

Let’s break that down:
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“Reporting” CBS-Style

Regarding the Nashville school shooting Ever-changing “facts,” as expected.

Previously, the alleged chumbucket was a female in her teens. Now CBS cites Nashville PD tweeting that… Well, CBS says

Police have identified the shooter as a 28-year-old white woman from Nashville, and officials said that she was armed with “at least” two assault rifles and a handgun.

Umm… that’s not what the police tweeted

the active shooter, who has now been identified as a 28-year-old Nashville woman.

Nowhere in the thread cited does it say her race. In fact, quite a few replies wonder about that, questioning why, if they know who the woman is down to her age, they don’t release her name or race. Maybe she’s white, maybe she’s not.

As for CBS reporting she had two “assault rifles,” BS. I’ve seen the police briefing: “two assault-style rifles.” Rather different.

Now, from pictures I’ve seen, this might indicate the shooter was white.

Police said their preliminary investigation indicates that the shooter was at one time a student at the school, Drake said. He did not know exactly when she may have attended.

All the students and staff I saw in pictures seem to be white. If she was a student maybe she is white. But given her reported age, and the fact the school opened in 2001, and only goes to sixth grade, she was unlikely to have been a student there past 2006; 17 years ago. Not sure how much bearing her possible student status might have on this.

So far, I’ve checked nine more reports on this. CBS is the only one reporting the woman as white, or the guns as “assault rifles.” Not even NBC nor NPR are claiming that yet. NBC did give the source for the prior student claim: MNPD police chief.

Oh, well. Maybe if a few more days, everyone will settle on a fixed narrative. the near real-time BS is something I’ve grown accustomed to.

Added: Oh, fuck’s sake. Gropin’ Joe Xiden has weighed in (of course):

You know, the shooter in this situation reportedly had two assault weapons and a pistol. Two AK-47s.”

I find two actual select-fire AK-47s to be extremely unlikely. Semi-auto AK-pattern firearms perhaps, but not AK-47s. (Yes, they deliberately use the wrong designation just to confuse the ill-informed. Though Uncle Gropy himself falls into that category.)

TZP Column: Children

CHILDREN
Another school shooting, in Nashville this time. Details are sparse: three dead child victims, one dead asshole perp. No ages, no weapon described.

But that doesn’t stop commenters from jumping to conclusions.
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Added: More details coming out after I posted that. Three children dead, three adult school staffers dead. The alleged perp is a female who appears to be in her teens; she’s dead, too, killed by the police. Reportedly, she was “carrying two “assault-type rifles” and a handgun.”

Way too early for motive, but I had the horrible thought she just didn’t like Mondays.