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Gunmen Fire 'Blanks' at Teachers to 'Test Readiness' (Original Post) celtics23 May 2013 OP
QUESTION: drynberg May 2013 #1
All the blathering about terror this and terror that Newest Reality May 2013 #2
Completely irresponsible. Eleanors38 May 2013 #3
So many layers of madness to peel back... caraher May 2013 #4
From a news story on this caraher May 2013 #5
Here is a teacher who passed a REAL test KurtNYC May 2013 #6
Unbelivable!!! jjewell May 2013 #7

drynberg

(1,648 posts)
1. QUESTION:
Fri May 3, 2013, 10:57 AM
May 2013
Who oh who is responsible for doing this insane "test"? Prosecute the individual(s) and publicize it widely.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. All the blathering about terror this and terror that
Fri May 3, 2013, 11:39 AM
May 2013

and the war on the WORD, and we see a situation where unsuspecting people were deliberately terrorized and it could have gone very bad, so that is reckless endangerment.

The teachers are not military personal in a context where they are being tested for readiness in combat or otherwise. Even though they have had the training, this looks more like a sociological experiment or inducement.

Insanity abounds. This should be prosecuted as the same as if anyone walked in off the street an pulled a stunt like that, (which has happened).

caraher

(6,278 posts)
4. So many layers of madness to peel back...
Fri May 3, 2013, 01:24 PM
May 2013

Suppose one of the teachers had a concealed carry weapon and managed to shoot back...

Suppose someone had a heart attack...

How about PTSD?

And what's next, doing this in every workplace, at random?

caraher

(6,278 posts)
5. From a news story on this
Fri May 3, 2013, 01:29 PM
May 2013
Oregon Live's piece includes this gem:

Halfway, population 288, is the eastern Oregon ranching town that became world-famous 13 years ago as the globe's first "Internet city." The city council changed Halfway's name to Half.com in return for $73,000 from a Philadelphia-based Internet bazaar of the same name that sold books, CDs, movies and the like on-line at half price.

The town got its old name back a year later when the on-line bazaar was sold to eBay. Now Halfway is back in the real world, where people sometimes enter schools and open fire.


That's our perception of "real world?" Yes, it has happened... but it's such a freakish event that making preparing this way for it is scarcely facing "reality."

jjewell

(618 posts)
7. Unbelivable!!!
Fri May 3, 2013, 03:37 PM
May 2013

Suppose the teachers had been "totally prepared" and filled the blank shooting "Testers" full of real lead??

What level of dumbfuckery is this country coming to?

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