This is a problem that goes back quite a while, just increased numbers now. Way back in residency, one of the FP residents returned home very late (as we are wont to do) but apparently his wife was not expecting him, and shot him dead. It was a very bad time for all concerned. Also points out that “guns in the home are bad for the home” is not at all a recent thing.
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Fearful of his life in his mansion in Lake Barrington. I’m sure.
BTW its fairly easy to have your home blurred out on Google Street view
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It’s not just his home, it’s the entire gated community, which is quite large (entirely surrounding a lake).
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Ah yes you said they kept the streetview cameras out completely. My mistake.
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This is not a dangerous neighborhood. The gates are probably staffed 24/7, and every home will have video surveillance too. For what? The occasional stray cat?
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Debatable. The only dangerous minority are the rich.
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Fair point! In fact, it’s probably much more dangerous for the wives and children there, thanks to domestic abuse not being prosecuted or even acknowledged in that economic class. To say nothing of the working class, whether live-in or arriving daily.
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The hulking boxes were put in place last fall, after gunfire at a subsidized apartment complex across the street damaged five homes inside the Naval Construction Battalion Center; no one was hurt. The base responded by increasing patrols around its perimeter and making one of the most fortified areas of Gulfport even more so.
“The optics of that are very bad,” said John Whitfield, a pastor and the CEO of Climb CDC, a nearby nonprofit focusing on workforce development. “The practicality of it, I understand.”
A spokesperson at the base said the barrier is meant to be a “temporary solution” and that the city had offered assurances that it was addressing the gun violence issue. Still, the Navy is considering building a permanent concrete wall.
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I thought the standard response to this sort of thing is to call in a drone strike?
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If the Newark store is anything like our nearest store…ammo is on open shelving (like personal grooming products at a grocery or drug store) and individual boxes can be pretty small, say, 3" x 2" x 1" (this can obviously vary a lot…but) easy enough for dudes wearing baggy jeans to stuff into their pockets. Maybe make accessing bullets harder just a smidge is a good idea, eh, US?
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That’s a lot of small boxes. 10,000 of them.
I suspect it wasn’t just shoplifting.
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That’s 27+ a day, assuming 365 days. How many boxes in a case? I bet more than a few cases were sold off the books to people that didn’t want to be tracked.
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Well well. Yes, please do call in the historians! Tldr:
In his Bruen decision last June, Justice Clarence Thomas ordered courts to assess the constitutionality of modern-day gun restrictions by searching for “historical analogues” from 1791, when the Second Amendment was ratified.
This judge just said he’s going to pull in actual historians. This could be good. Also pretty spicy for a court order.
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It just occurred to me. Is this within Heather Cox Richardson’s wheelhouse? Because hot damn can that woman write about history in an engaging and easily accessible way.
I would love to see her take
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Ranger bands. They’re called that because us army rangers originally made them from sliced up rubber inner bike tires. Anyone can buy a baggie of them off of Amazon. I’m guessing the meme maker is a bit of an misogynist.
(What? I read quite a bit about gear organization over the years.)
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I don’t understand. What are they supposed to be used for?
(I’m clearly not their target audience.)
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