Bill Barr’s Election Rule

For as much as I believe Bill Barr ran a corrupt office at least at the DOJ, especially in regard to the Muller investigation, I was impressed with his limit setting with Trump regarding January 6th and “The Big Lie.”

Hind sight is frequently more clear than foresight. In that, I have to wonder what Barr knew about January 6th coup attempt and when he knew it. If he had any inclination about the coup, was the extra condition added to the department’s memo regarding election season investigation, for the purpose of giving Trump a completely clear runway? 

Knowing today, the FBI stated the 2020 election was not effected by foreign powers, by ensuring Trump had a clear runway, there was no reason to question the election. Hence, no valid reason to delay the peaceful transfer of power.

I think Barr knew how to handle Trump and while ethics is in question, maybe more than ethics, he managed to keep his job. In realizing his role in trying to stop Trump from the coup with the reality of his election loss, Barr’s character is revealed or redeemed.

That said.

When it comes to the Merrick DOJ, I think a reassessment of that memo, which out of respect includes Barr’s special condition, needs to eliminate that special condition. The Merrick DOJ needs to get on with prosecution so Barr doesn’t have to live through another Trump administration.

This was a real assault on the country. The country needs the DOJ to do its job to protect it. Sooner the better.

Most polls of Americans believe Trump should be charged. 60 percent of Americans. Trump was an organizer to give the White Supremacists/Nationalists a clear runway to violence and the coup.

The Secret Service is living up to its’ name

I don’t appreciate the secretive Secret Service losing records. Oops. They need to give testimony about this phenomena.

In addition to the testimony the devices before and after the loss needs be interrogated. I do believe the FBI is the best agency to carry out that device interrogations.

I also believe an ethics review is in order for the agents. It is more than appropriate and in those ethics review is to understand their loyalty to the US Constitution.

Oh, yeah, during the Trump administration were there any whistleblower agents? And, if there were, where were those reports filed?

The Secret Service “Oops” opens the agency up to all kinds of questions.

Is the FCC leftovers from Trump the problem? The answer is yes.

July 18, 2022
By Cristiano Lima

Jessica Rosenworcel (click here) returned as a Commissioner to the Federal Communications Commission on August 11, 2017 after being nominated by the President and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate....

Democratic lawmakers’ (click here) inability to secure a majority at the Federal Communications Commission has stymied plans for the agency to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules.

Amid the impasse, lawmakers are renewing efforts to take the issue into their own hands with a sweeping new bill, according to a copy obtained by The Technology 202.

Led by Sens. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act would reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service and open companies like AT&T and Verizon up to stricter oversight by the FCC....

Rosenworcel has been trying to deal with spectrum since 2014, it is time to move on with net neutrality.

Net Neutrality as it was written BACK IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!!

More than any other invention of our time, (click here) the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago. And here's a big reason we've seen such incredible growth and innovation: Most Internet providers have treated Internet traffic equally. That's a principle known as "net neutrality" — and it says that an entrepreneur's fledgling company should have the same chance to succeed as established corporations, and that access to a high school student's blog shouldn't be unfairly slowed down to make way for advertisers with more money....

Rosenworcel has been involved in the FCC for a long time, what is the problem already!

June 28, 2022
By Riley Haight

Washington - At a conference (click here) hosted by the American Library Association on Friday, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel reaffirmed her support for net neutrality rules.

According to a press release, Rosenworcel stated she wants to make a “return to common carrier regulation of internet service providers which aims to prevent ISPs from slowing down or blocking web traffic.”

Rosenworcel “fully backs” net neutrality rules passed under the Obama administration that were repealed during the Trump administration. “I opposed the last administration’s effort to roll it back, and I want it to once again become the law of the land,” she stated at the ALA....

President Biden needs to get this straightened out and make progress. This is ridiculous! The public is tired of Trumpism getting in the way. The public is tired of waiting!

LIVE FROM GSMA MOBILITY LIVE, ATLANTA: (click here)  Having singled out spectrum as one of the FCC’s biggest challenges at this event two years ago, FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel continues to believe the issue is critical and hinted at plans to launch a high-band spectrum incentive auction.

She hailed the organisation’s incentive auction in the 600MHz band, which involves asking broadcasters to return spectrum they may not be using so the FCC can sell it to operators for use in mobile broadband.


“We sweeten the pot by offering existing broadcasters a cut from the proceeds of the sale,” she said, describing the process as a “really elegant, academic concept” that the FCC is proud of.

The process is ongoing and is expected to finish by early 2017....

OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT!

Obstructed Government (click here) Because of the Trump White House the Republicans have the federal government deadlocked and don't care about the people.

REPUBLICANS ARE THE PROBLEM STILL. This is an election year issue!

Ms. Sohn is highly qualified as well as a lawyer. It is time to put responsible people on the FCC that will make Net Neurtrality a reality. This is another topic that has to come before the voters in November this year. Net Neutrality is long overdue and it is the radical GOP that is holding it up. Enough of this mess. Put it out there to the voters. This is VITAL to small business and children! 

June 2, 2022
By Margaret Harding McGill and Sara Fischer

Congress hasn't budged (click here) on President Biden's pick for a key tie-breaking FCC seat as the clock ticks down on the chance for a vote.

Why it matters: Without confirmation of Biden's nominee, Gigi Sohn, the communications regulator will remain deadlocked — hobbling efforts to enact the administration's agenda of expanding broadband access and promoting digital equity.

State of play: If Sohn, a lawyer and co-founder of the tech and telecom advocacy group Public Knowledge, doesn't win a vote before summer recess, Democrats could lose their chance to fill the seat should Republicans take control of Congress in November....

These are huge problems. The people can't get their business done and it because Republicans are obstructing the smooth running of the federal government. 

So, in addition to Republicans making women second class citizens there is the FACT that Republicans cannot commit to government that runs smoothly. The FCC and Net Neutrality are hanging in the balance in the November elections. It is time to put the Republicans in full view of the hate of people and small business. Evidently, we get in the way of Russian oligarchs and tax breaks for Wall Street.

Look. Russia sabotaged the 2016 elections, the USA cannot afford an FCC that doesn't work for the people and their elections.

Enough of McConnell dictating our lives with radical Supreme Court justices and stacking the deck within the USA agencies. It is time to make this TACTIC against the people an awareness topic in the November elections. The USA is a  mess and it is because of the Republicans.

It would be good if the New York Times continued it's "Live" updates regarding the Climate Crisis.

July 18, 2022

A country largely without air-conditioning (click here) was struggling to cope in the heat. Rail service was limited for fear the tracks would buckle, and flights at Britain’s largest air base were halted.

The italics simply indicates a different country from the previous paragraph. Each reporting has authors.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said on Monday that he had visited areas affected by wildfires in the western region of Extremadura. “Climate change kills,” Mr. Sánchez said. “All these waves of wildfires have behind them heat waves caused by the climatic emergency that the planet is experiencing.”

Several areas of France have experienced record-breaking temperatures, approaching or surpassing 100 degrees Fahrenheit in towns including Brest, Saint-Brieuc and Nantes, according to the national weather forecaster. But conditions were expected to quickly shift in the coming hours, with strong winds pushing temperatures down by nearly half in some places along France’s southwestern coast.

The Eastern seaboard seems to becoming more tropical with frequent if not daily rains. The entire Eastern seaboard, including the southeast.

We know for a fact schools of fish in the oceans are shifting north. The problem is they aren't necessarily meeting up with their usual diets. That reality could cause fisheries to collapse, but, marine scientists have had their finger on the pulse of that reality for some time now.

But, as to people, other than their diets and where it is going to come from; with shifting temperatures of the ocean the reality of daily storms in the subtropics that was once Florida, is now farther north than before. In that lies the reality that native vegetation growth could easily be encouraged to allow for more removal of CO2. 

Temperate rainforests are a strong potential if states pay attention to their rainfalls and the vegetation growth that is being recorded by botanists. If temperate rainforests are developing in these regions, it should be encouraged and protected.

July 18, 2022
By David Epstein

We’re just about halfway through meteorological summer (click here) — those warmest months of the year — and it’s going to be toasty this week.

If you looked at a chart of average temperature in Greater Boston, you would see that the warmest air typically occurs around July 21, and it’s no surprise that this week is going to be the hottest week of the summer so far.

With a frontal system approaching Monday, clouds will be plentiful yet rain will not. As the moisture moves toward the coastline, it will lose its potency, and the best chance of afternoon and evening showers and storms will be well west of Route 495 and north into New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine....

Yes, the northern reaches of the Climate Crisis could be about temperate rainforests. Not tropical, but, subtropical. Actually, I would expect it. I once made that observation to Former Governor Bev Purdue.

This is another woman with no rights or respect.

Massachusetts law states the statute of limitations on sexual assault is 15 years, why hasn't this case been approached yet?

• Rape: 15 years time limit.
• Assault with intent to commit rape: 15 years time limit.
• Conspiracy to commit or accessory of rape/assault with intent to commit rape: 15 years time limit.
• Armed robbery or Conspiracy to commit crime/accessory to crime: 10-year time limit.

Ms. James needs her job back to protect her pension and add to it. What I don't understand is why Russell was never apprehended for sexual assault?

July 17, 2022
By Ivy Scott

Malden - A decade ago, Brenda James lost her job (click here) at the Boston Police Department after nearly 20 years as an officer. Despite myriad legal setbacks, she never abandoned her fight to be reinstated and finally tell her side of the story in full.

Two weeks ago came the moment James, 59, had been awaiting for years, as she stood before a panel at the state’s Division of Administrative Law Appeals in Malden and gave her version of the night Captain Paul Russell allegedly stormed up behind her in his office and tried to wrestle her gun out of its holster.

His behavior “did not follow protocol,” James testified. “As a Black woman, I felt extremely nervous and uncomfortable in that situation.”

After that altercation in June 2012, James was never permitted to return to work. In a department where Black officers are disciplined at a disproportionate rate, James worries her ouster is another example of a culture that reflexively defends high-ranking, white male officials. Her prolonged legal fight, she said in an interview, is evidence of the department’s determination to “keep sweeping things under the rug so they never get properly addressed.”...

"Good Night, Moon"

The waning gibbous

19.6 days old

75.5 lit

July 17, 2022

By Ari Shapiro, Kat Lonsdorf, and Patrick Jarenwattanannon

This week, we got a new view of space. And it was epic. (click here)

Cosmic cliffs of glowing gas, spinning galaxies, dying stars. The James Webb telescope caught those images of ancient history — billions of light years away — showing what the universe looked like when it was just forming after the Big Bang.

Some 20,000 people worked on the project for almost two decades, including engineer Bill Ochs, who has been the project manager since 2011. He joined All Things Considered to share the journey to this monumental snapshot in time....

I am sincerely proud of the American space program, especially when it opens up the knowledge of astrophysicists (click here).

The James Webb telescope has began an entire new branch of science. This is the way a healthy society acts. It makes investments into the understanding of our world and it's place in all that is "out there." Every tax paying American contributed to this project by NASA. We, as a country, have the most advanced technology ever to understand the universe we are a part of and it is all good.

I congratulate NASA on this accomplishment and all allies that participated. The result is wonderful. We need to hear more and more.

But, no one reads minds. The shooter was LIMITED in his killing, but, nothing PREVENTED it.

July 17, 2022
By Chloe McGowan and Arika Herron

Three people are dead and two others are injured (click here) Sunday after a man with a rifle opened fire inside a Indiana shopping mall and an armed civilian shot him, authorities said.

The man entered the Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and began firing in the food court, said Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison at a news conference. Ison added that an armed civilian killed the suspected gunman.

"It appears that he had a rifle with several magazines of ammunition, entered the food court and began shooting," Ison said. Police believe an armed bystander "observed the shooting in progress and shot the shooter."

The shooting happened in the Greenwood Park Mall's food court around the mall's 6 p.m. closing time; the first emergency calls were received at 6:05 p.m. The mall, located about 10 miles south of Indianapolis, has more than 130 indoor and outdoor restaurants and shops....

Here again is a good guy with a gun. He limited the killing and maiming, but, he couldn't prevent it. The entire paradigm by the USA laws regarding guns is wrong. It simply is wrong. Everyone believes in self-defense. But, what ever happened to prevention. Are Americans supposed to be grateful for someone ending a rampage? That isn't what we are about.

Life, according to the political right wing, is ever so important? Their very loose standards for guns on the streets of the USA would not validate that either.

Abortion bad - Guns good. 

Some folks are really missing the value of life in a way that Americans live.

American life expectancy is falling. It is due to COVID and it's variants, but, guns are getting a bigger piece of the causes of death, especially in children. This simply is not who we are. 

HOW EASY SHOULD IT BE TO BUY A GUN?

The Endangered Species Act has been reinstated by a judge who cared.

July 7, 2022
By Olivia Rosane

...Earthjustice (click here) represented the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Parks Conservation Association, Wild Earth Guardians and the Humane Society of the United States in a lawsuit to block the Trump regulations passed in 2019. The lawsuit targeted five regulations in particular, according to AP News.

These regulations did the following, according to EcoWatch and the Sierra Club:

- Removed the “blanket rule” giving threatened species the same protections as endangered species.

- Made it harder to protect species from the climate crisis by giving the            government more wiggle room in how it interpreted the phrase                    “foreseeable  future.”

- Made it easier to delist species.

- Allowed regulators to consider the economic impact of offering protections    to a species.

- Made it harder to list new species and protect their critical habitat.

When President Joe Biden took office, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service said they would work on new regulations, according to AP News. However, this process can take months to years. In the meantime, the services asked the court to remand the case in December of 2021, according to the plaintiffs. However, the judge decided to vacate the Trump regulations instead.

“Regardless of whether this Court vacates the 2019 [Endangered Species Act] Rules, they will not remain in effect in their current form,” Tigar wrote in his ruling, as CNBC reported....

What is surprising to me is the medical professionals response to the Supreme Court decision.

Obviously, the medical profession does not agree with the Supreme Court. The medical professionals are more than willing to save women's lives. It seems that medical professionals trust women.

July 15, 2022
By Angie Leventis Lourgos

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (click here) and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul participate in a roundtable discussion about the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and severely restricting abortion rights across the country on June 30 in Chicago.

Wisconsin medical providers (click here) are traveling across state lines to provide abortions in Illinois, expanding access to the procedure after the recent fall of Roe v. Wade.

Several new abortion clinics are also expected to open soon in Rockford and Carbondale, parts of the state with a dearth of abortion providers. Two new clinics are planned for Rockford — which hasn’t had an abortion provider in about a decade — and a third clinic could begin providing medication abortions as soon as next month in Carbondale, the home of Southern Illinois University.

Reproductive rights advocates hope the new clinics and additional medical providers will help Illinois handle the recent influx of out-of-state abortion patients, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had established the right to terminate a pregnancy nationwide since 1973.

Abortion opponents, however, lament that Illinois is becoming an “abortion mecca,” said Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League....

This is the slime that Putin wants in a prisoner exchange.

July 14, 2022
By Jim Heintz and Larry Neumeister

Viktor Bout

Moscow - A Russian arms dealer (click here) labeled the “Merchant of Death” who once inspired a Hollywood movie is back in the headlines with speculation around a return to Moscow in a prisoner exchange.

If Viktor Bout, 55, is indeed eventually freed in return for WBNA star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, as some published reports suggest, it would add to the lore around a charismatic arms dealer the U.S. has imprisoned for over a decade.

Depending on the source, Bout is a swashbuckling businessman unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation, or a peddler of weapons whose sales fueled some of the world’s worst conflicts.

The 2005 Nicolas Cage movie, “Lord of War” was loosely based on Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who gained fame supposedly by supplying weapons for civil wars in South America, the Middle East and Africa. His clients were said to include Liberia’s Charles Taylor, longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and both sides in Angola’s civil war....

BRING THE AMERICANS HOME!!!

Women in the USA are not respected. They are not trusted to make their own decisions. Survey Monkey.

I do not believe we have seen all the backlash of a hostile Supreme Court. One of the biggest reasons for divorce and single parents are financial issues. Having a large family is a financial issue.

Just half of Americans say women are respected in the U.S. (cick here)

Three-quarters of Americans (76%) say men are well-respected in the U.S., but barely more than half (53%) say the same for women, according to our new poll from July 3-12, 2022. Despite a continued fight for women’s rights and a push for gender equality, women still see the U.S. as more of a “man’s world”: 

• Just 42% of women say that women are well respected in the U.S. – far less than the number of men who say the same (65%) 

• Women are more likely than men to say that men are well respected in the U.S. (81% vs. 72%) 

A 2018 Gallup poll showed similar results: a record-low 59% of Americans said women in the country are treated with respect and dignity, down sharply from 68% the previous year and dropping notably among women (just 48% felt women in the U.S. are treated with respect).  

In addition to gender, there’s a heavy partisan split: 75% of Republicans agree that women are well respected in the U.S. – nearly double the 37% of Democrats who say the same – yet Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to say men are well respected in the U.S. (87% vs. 69%)....

Not everybody dies.

July 15, 2022
By Laura Rodriguez

Cooper Roberts, (click here) the 8-year-old boy paralyzed from the waist down after being wounded at the Independence Day parade shooting in Highland Park, was in “very critical” condition after undergoing his seventh surgery on Wednesday, a family spokesman said.

Though his condition after the surgery initially seemed positive and the boy was breathing over the ventilator, as the day progressed Cooper’s fever returned. A CT scan also revealed fluid building in his esophagus, lungs and now around his pelvis, the family said through their spokesman, Anthony Loizzi....

But, hey, there is the Americans with Disability Act, right? He'll be okay.

FANTASTIC!!!! Make the kids proud. Out with the old, in with the new.

July 15, 2022
By Elena Shao

Mayflower Wind plans to link its offshore wind farm to the electrical infrastructure at the old Brayton Point plant in Somerset, Mass

Across the country, aging and defunct coal-burning power plants (click here) are getting new lives as solar, battery and other renewable energy projects, partly because they have a decades-old feature that has become increasingly valuable: They are already wired into the power grid.

The miles of high-tension wires and towers often needed to connect power plants to customers far and wide can be costly, time consuming and controversial to build from scratch. So solar and other projects are avoiding regulatory hassles, and potentially speeding up the transition to renewable energy, by plugging into the unused connections left behind as coal becomes uneconomical to keep burning.

In Illinois alone, at least nine coal-burning plants are on track to become solar farms and battery storage facilities in the next three years. Similar projects are taking shape in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Maryland. In Massachusetts and New Jersey, two retired coal plants along the coast are being repurposed to connect offshore wind turbines to the regional electrical grids....

The coal station in Baldwin, Ill., will retire in 2025 and then be used to connect 190,000 solar panels to the grid.

Celebrate this stuff. These are climate victories. People should feel good about these massive change. The children will be happier to know their future is valued.

This is a really big deal!
Credit...

Guns and Booze don't mix.

July 15, 2022
By Shanzeh Ahmad

Whether it was several hundreds of people (click here) gathered together in a church to pray, a few hundred showing up to see him at the hospital, neighborhood children selling “Golden lemonade” to raise money for him, or videos of encouragement from the likes of Vince Vaughn and Tom Brady, there’s no shortage of support for a Chicago police officer and U.S. Army veteran who was shot and injured while off-duty last weekend, as he tried to break up a bar fight in the Beverly neighborhood.

The outpouring of love and well-wishes helped Danny Golden, 31, keep a smile on his face after doctors told him he was permanently paralyzed from the waist down and would never walk again....

Bars serving alcohol need to put metal detectors at any entrance with bouncers to enforce the sign that says, "Private property, no guns allowed." Bars should be held responsible if violence breaks out. 

Ya don't see this everyday.

It is a Chinese restaurant that was being toed to a new location. (click here) The real problem in moving this resturant was the fact it was a flat bottom boat with no sincere water displacement to maintain it's upright posture. It was top heavy without enough water displacement to compensate for the weight. It was a boat only by the fact it was floating when a restaurant. There was nothing else that made it a boat. In actuality, it wasn't really a boat so much as a restaurant over water.

Here is something to fear. The Climate Crisis.

17 July 2022

More than 1,200 firefighters (click here) backed by water-dumping planes were battling two fires burning near Bordeaux in southwetern France. Images shared by authorities showed flames racing through large tracts of pine forest. Regional prosecutors suspect the main fire, which started in the town of Landiras, may have been deliberately lit.

Southwest Europe (click here) endured a sixth day of a summer heatwave on Saturday that has triggered devastating forest fires as parts of the continent braced for new temperature records early next week.

Firefighters in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece battled forest blazes that have ravaged thousands of hectares of land and killed several personnel since the start of the week.
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It is the second heatwave engulfing parts of southwest Europe in weeks as scientists blame climate change and predict more frequent and intense episodes of extreme weather.

At least 360 people have died due to the heatwave in Spain with temperatures far above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees fahrenheit), newspaper La Vanguardia reported on Saturday citing the state-run Carlos III Health Institute....

A little change of pace.

This is just bizarre in a way nothing else is. A bunker in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I figure this could be Zuckerberg's most private residence or the best place for USA insurgents.

July 15, 2022
By Mary K. Jacob

In what looks (click here) like a scene out of Martin Scorcese’s “Shutter Island,” a decommissioned World War II fort in the middle of the ocean is being auctioned off for first time, starting at just $60,000.

Located in the Humber Estuary of Northern England, the concrete vessel was initially constructed between 1915 and 1919 for naval defense during World War I, though it wouldn’t go into use until WWII.

Considered a historic listing, the property is defined by the United Kingdom as a “grade II” building or structure that is “of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve it.”

Savills National Auctions will present the unique marine dwelling for bidding on July 19....

No guns, no gun deaths.

Conclusion: (click here) Mass-shooting related homicides in the United States were reduced during the years of the federal assault weapons ban of 1994 to 2004.

Any loopholes that allowed weapons to be obtained can be addressed. The article above is what Bill Clinton read when he made the following statement.

“How many more people have to die before we reinstate the assault weapons ban & the limit on high-capacity magazines & pass universal background checks? After they passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again. We must act now.”

— Former president Bill Clinton, in a tweet, Aug. 5, 2019

Both the article and Clinton's statement come from a roller coaster ride article in the Washington Post (click here) about authors of studies and types of statistical data used.

Let me clarify this somewhat. The AR-15 is the war weapon of choice to rank amateurs that want to kill. Their success is proven over and over that the choice of the AR-15 will kill even in the hands of amateurs.

As a society we can play with statistics all we want from a variety of authors of studies, but, discussing the right to own a weapon of war as a private citizen in the USA is not a reasonable discussion. THIS IS THE TRUTH. If the war weapons are not manufactured and not sold there are no AR-15s to carry out mass murder. IT IS JUST THAT SIMPLE. If ya ain't got the war weapon, there is no mass killing.

Got that? If there are no weapons of war on the streets of the USA there are no mass shootings that kill in large numbers. That is the truth. No debate. it is simply fact.

In the Washington Post article there was a data chart. It doesn't matter which method was used to make it, the data across the chart was all treated the same way, so there is some degree of truth in this graph. The black line shows the trend of the mass killings. I want to emphasize the increase in these killings since 2014.

It was June 17, 2015 when Donald John Trump announced his race for the presidency. The numbers of mass shooting deaths increased that year and continued to increase the trend ever since.

How many deaths is the Supreme Court going to be responsible for?

When a Supreme Court cause problems for ideological reasons, it is time to do something about the Supreme Court.

July 17, 2022
By Matt Stout

The Boston Police Department (click here) says it has moved to lift restrictions on hundreds of existing gun licenses, with potentially thousands more to come in the city and elsewhere, as police departments pivot in the face of a Supreme Court ruling that is quickly reshaping Massachusetts gun law.

The effort to remove limits on existing licenses to carry in Boston, Springfield, and other communities comes after state officials told police they should no longer place restrictions on people who fail to cite a “good reason” for carrying a concealed firearm. Some police say that even if the limits on someone’s license have yet to be formally lifted, they may be unable to enforce the restrictions anyway....

No one wants to end school violence if they aren't willing to end assault weapons in the USA.

 ..."systemic failures and egregious poor decision making"...

In the US Army, 400 personnel is the equivalent of 2 companies of soldiers (click here). This will happen again. These are the 400 good guys with guns. They failed to save lives. Police officers are not combat trained with AR-15s. This is happen again and again until those lousy weapons of war are removed from the streets of the United States of America.

It is just the one truth no one wants to talk about.

Legislators don't want to make the gun lobby angry and there are all those right wing insurrectionists that want to run the country their way without a constitution. The insurrectionists love their guns.

400 police officers or to be politically correct, 400 law enforcement officials were at Uvalde. They are as worried for their own lives no matter what any piece of paper from a legislature says.

July 17, 2022
By Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber

Uvalde - Nearly 400 law enforcement officials (click here) rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “systemic failures” created a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a report from investigators released Sunday.

The nearly 80-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas town for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside a fourth-grade classroom.

“At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety,” the report said....