tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post4630050941675869885..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Kids Today...Bardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-9924562308595310082016-06-03T15:21:08.195-07:002016-06-03T15:21:08.195-07:00In the Oregon shooting last year, there was a guy ...In the Oregon shooting last year, there was a guy nearby who had a concealed carry permit, and who had trained as a sniper in the military -- he wrote a great column about why he DID NOT pull out his gun -- he realized that any law enforcement officer who arrived would assume he was the dangerous guy. <br /><br />And now, of course, it turns out that the shooter had his Ph.D. from UCLA, had killed his (ex?) wife first, then went back to UCLA and planned to kill another faculty member. http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/suspect-in-ucla-shooting-was-a-ph-d-student-victim-was-his-professor/111877 Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-20270128004731332702016-06-02T16:02:45.740-07:002016-06-02T16:02:45.740-07:00There are great stats available about how accurate...There are great stats available about how accurate (or inaccurate, as the case may be) police officers are when shooting in an active situation. Their accuracy is quite low (maybe 30%? I can't remember the numbers). And, as you say, it would be very difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys. In fact, I read that in the UCLA incident, at least one student fled from a SWAT guy whom he thought was a shooter (Jon Stewart has a great piece on that good guy / bad problem). Thank goodness the SWAT guy probably expects that kind of thing--scared people who run--and so doesn't shoot the scared ones. Amateurs on the other hand . . . . <br /><br />It's not like in the movies.Good Enough Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16531793545583712309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-22624820552089420612016-06-02T09:46:53.440-07:002016-06-02T09:46:53.440-07:00I've seen the same "more guns!" post...I've seen the same "more guns!" posts popping up on my media feeds, along with the "ha ha ha, another gun-free zone FAIL," which is just hilarious. (That's bitter sarcasm, in case anyone needs to be told that.)<br /><br />This shooting hits home to me especially because of how similar it is to the school shooting that killed John Locke, at the University of Arkansas, in August 2000. <br /><br />Dr. Locke was my mentor -- without him, I would not have thought to enter the PhD program at UA, and certainly would not have succeeded. He was shot by a graduate student who he'd done everything he could to help, but who (in the end) was not able to succeed in the program. The student then shot himself. This was two doors down from the office that had been mine all through graduate school. (I had graduated and taken a job in Idaho by then.)<br /><br /><br />Sixteen years, and what's changed? This sort of thing has become commonplace. It was a shock and an outrage then. Now it's just another item on the news.<br />delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-41399111350463096302016-06-02T06:39:14.879-07:002016-06-02T06:39:14.879-07:00Those sound like really depressing social media co...Those sound like really depressing social media conversations to have after such a tragedy. And the idea that we would all be better off if everyone had more guns on campus! I can't imagine being armed and at the ready whenever one of my students came to see me -- how would education happen in such a circumstance?What Now?https://www.blogger.com/profile/08221008082872963036noreply@blogger.com