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Florida is getting fucking WORKED by an 0-7 Texas Southern team. Stricklin is having a busy year.

Another 30ish minutes and you could have hit buccees outside of temple.

Yes and no, their secondary is helped a lot by their tremendous pass rush. No secondary can cover forever. Bama’s o-line kept Young clean most of the night and he escaped the pocket the few times he couldn’t find someone open. There just aren’t many teams in the country that have an O line that can go toe to toe with those guys.

Bama won with their best RB running on one leg and one of their best WRs only playing a half. It’s ridiculous.

Hey Nick, might wanna cover 19.

Bowers reminds me of a less murdery Aaron Hernandez. Dude is an absolute mismatch.

Yea, that’s the hope now. Bama needs to drop 50 on them.

Is Kirbying the new Clemsoning?

A lot of the school’s responses are dictated by district policy, which varies wildly even within the same state. I’m sure we will learn more as this goes on, but their hands may have been tied by the parents refusal to remove the kid from school.

And for those dismissing all the cultural fit stuff, the reason he is code switching is because he knows it will be a factor in recruiting. I think hes making a mistake because most parents want someone genuine, not pandering. He's not from the south, I don't know why he would try to pretend to be. Coaches with southern roots were already going to use his NE background against him, but now all coaches have ammo to point that he is fake and a liar. "You dont want your kid playing for some bullshit carpetbagger do you?" The only fix here is for him to come out and say Jamarcus Russell slipped him some kind of purple drink he said was LSU juice at a meet and greet before going out to speak to the crowd.

Yea, all this cultural fit stuff is completely overblown. The Irish new englander chose to get in front of a crowd and foghorn leghorn his way through his introductory speech for completely different reasons.

Plus the guns are received after compulsory military service, so there is a training regimen tied to owning those weapons.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/us/waukesha-one-week-silence/index.html EDIT: Here is the actual tweet The click through takes you to the above headline.

I know we aren’t supposed to judge a book by it’s cover, but the shooter’s dad looks like a real salt of the earth asshole.

I’ve been listening on and off, but I thought I heard him going on a “if we would just hold criminals accountable for gun crimes we would have less gun crime.” How the fuck did that come up and how is it relevant to a 15 year old shooting up a school?

Yep, a kid can pick up a chair and have a decent chance of defending his or her self against a knife. A handful of kids with chairs can neutralize someone with a knife. That's probably why the crazy kids are bringing guns to school and not knives.

I think reducing the gun count is as pointless as trying to eliminate gun ownership in this country. That ship has sailed. The only thing we can do is make it painful to be a shitty gun owner to the point where people find locking their shit up to be the better alternative. Unfortunately anything resembling responsible gun ownership legislation will get the slippery slope treatment and we will right back to thoughts and prayers.

I've seen that movie too. I'm not putting my chips on a kid irrational enough to start shooting up a school to have the mental clarity to think through who did and didn't piss him off once he starts slinging metal downrange. Teaching your kids not to be the asshole should go without saying, but yes, that should be high on the list too.

I think there are fucked up kids all over the world, they just have easier access to guns here. If you think resolving mental issues, school bullying, hormonal angst, etc is the easier nut to crack Ill listen.

That’s not surprising at all, but it’s still going to be a 50% solution at best. A smart shooter can just pull the fire alarm and fill a hallway with targets. We are twisting ourselves into knots trying to work around the core issue.

Uh, that’s a strange leap in logic. I’m not advocating that we take guns away, because that’s impossible in this country. But we also won’t do anything to restrict access, which makes us cowards. That’s not mud slinging, I’m including myself in that because it’s our failure as a country. https://www.statista.com/chart/13998/school-shootings-per-country-2009/ Thoughts and prayers aren’t cutting it.

Someone posted upthread that the gun owner should be responsible for crimes committed with their gun. I completely agree and it’s a good first step. I also think gun owners should be required to have gun locks/gun safes with the purchase of a firearm. Tie it to mandatory insurance. Make owners prove they are safe gun owners or pay out to match their level of risk. I own X long guns and my safe capacity matches that. It’s biometric so I get x discount over something easier for a kid to work through. Kids in the house? Higher premium. If we can’t take guns away we have to put up actual guard rails to keep shit safer. Right now it’s purely reactive and not effective.

Sandy hook is close, he shot through a window to open the main security door before going on his rampage. They didn’t have a classroom door locking protocol at that time AFAIK, but it’s pretty easy to guess that Lanza would have taken that into account if it was in place. He planned around the main security door and knew he would be in the main office. First person he killed was the principal. It’s still a good protocol because taking the time to open doors buys more time, but it’s still a speed bump.

We are a nation of cowards, I fully recognize that. A former penal colony had the balls to do what we won’t after seeing their kids killed by gun violence. There is no precognition way to identify shooters, so that’s just another deflection around the core issue. There was an armed SRO at this school, still had kids get shot. There was an armed SRO at Parkland too. Short of an armed officer per classroom standing at low ready, there’s no way to protect schools with more guns. The answer is restricting gun access, but again, we are cowards. I know it’s not a guaranteed solution, but we won’t even try the obvious one, because /insert CR here.

Biggest piece of advice I’d give to any parent having these talks with their kids is to stay as far away as possible from any fights. You see a fight, or shit ramping up to a fight, you get the fuck out. You don’t start recording with your phones. At this point there has to be a double digit % chance that someone will pull a weapon. Also, be a snitch. You see a kid being bullied, you tell someone. You hear about a fight after school, snitch that shit out. Parents, help them be a snitch. Follow up with a call to the admin about someone getting bullied. Get the shit on their radar. If the kid is worried about being outed as a snitch have them text you and then you call that shit in. I would love for kids to figure out how to process and navigate conflict and hostility, but these days it’s likely going to end with blood, so fuck that. You snitch, because the alternative is someone getting shot. I would also stay the hell away from a SRO at all times. If a shooter wants to inflict maximum damage he’s taking that guy down first.