We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:34:26 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Omaha Mall Shooting. With a *six minute* response time for the police that is an unqualified good police response. I mean that with no sarcasm. Yes, 6 minutes seems like forever if you're under fire - but in the rest of the sidereal universe, that's a commendable response time. Of course, it's followed by the time they have to take to gain entry and gain situational understanding, they can't just burst in shooting. But I'm not criticizing the police response. I think they did well. Two killed at Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado. Two killed, gunman killed at New... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:14:17 -0600 Colonel Jeff would have been proud. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67464 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67464 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:33:32 -0600 I will never understand the mindset that thinks, "If we ban guns, no one will carry one." Naivete? nah stupidity. Thank God one of the security people was armed in C Springs and prevented a real disaster. God bless her and thanks to her for her courage. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67457 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67457 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:19:35 -0600 A friend of ours is a nice southern lady and she carries. She also teaches the toddlers in the nursery class at church. She used to teach the teenagers. No, the weapon isn't anywhere near the children; she keeps it in her car. Hm. Heh. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67453 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67453 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:47:34 -0600 JMH, the Trinitarian controversy is more likely to incite stupified slumber than civil disorder so far as I'm concerned... you'd think 1700 years would be time enough to hash it out, eh? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67452 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67452 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:24:42 -0600 We have 2 LEOs at our church - one civilian and one military. They both carry, regardless of uniform. And everyone is comfortable with that. They make it well-known and invite discussion. I appreciate it and so do many others at church. An armed society is a polite society. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67451 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67451 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:59:23 -0600 I understand the debate regarding the Nicene Creed, but my recently-unfrozen-caveman brain doesn't get JMH's linkage. Or, it could be that my brain is being turned to mush by the info-overflow trying to get established in my new task. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67450 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67450 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:56:06 -0600 Neffi Just a reminder: "Homoousian" versus "Homoiousian" is a doctrinal debate, not inciting civil disorder. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67448 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67448 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:36:43 -0600 This law-abiding Coloradan no longer heeds the 'No Guns' signs- I've been packing the SIG pretty much everywhere, since the Omaha shootings. That sort of thing tends to unwrap the last tendril of sanity from the copy-catters. Mind you, very few places around here are posted- but I'm waiting for the knee-jerk signs to start appearing in response to Sunday. My little friend conceals easily (and I've got the permit)... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67441 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67441 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:12:29 -0600 I have the sense that attitudes are changing. Massive logical failures can be ignored for only so long. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67440 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67440 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:54:14 -0600 "Piece" of mind? OMG, brain cramp... or thinking about the ex-boyfriend (I miss him)... Yeah, that's my excuse! :P http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67439 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67439 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:42:41 -0600 Such understatement, John! I'm not sure I get your point... ;) As you know, I've only held a firearm once (though I did pretty well, if I do say so myself). But I never feel safer among other people these days than when those other people are well-trained and armed. In my experience, nothing says piece of mind--in even the sketchiest parts of town--like an armed boyfriend. ;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67438 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/12/re_the_recent_s.html#comment-67438 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:40:33 -0600