Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix3.panix.com!not-for-mail From: "Keith F. Lynch" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Arrest made in bomb threat against con hotel Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:03:44 -0000 (UTC) Organization: United Individualist Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:03:44 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix3.panix.com:166.84.1.3"; logging-data="17349"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3231 Lines: 46 James Nicoll wrote: > Gary McGath wrote: >> Then maybe someone who was banned spread the litter-box stories to >> gullible audiences in retaliation? >> The litter boxes for my cats have always been gender-free. Coincidentally, in today's news, I read of a woman in DC being shot while emptying her cat's litter box: https://wtop.com/dc/2024/04/she-was-emptying-her-cats-litter-box-when-a-stranger-walked-up-and-shot-her-was-it-a-case-of-mistaken-identity/ > As I recall, it turned out some classrooms in the Jefferson County > Public School District in Colorado do or did have litter boxes but > not for the reason the alt-right claimed. It was so that during > routine school mass shootings, kids waiting their turn to be > murdered would have somewhere to relieve themselves without > spoiling the game by making a run for the bathroom. As for "routine school mass shootings," the average American school goes several thousand years between such shootings. More school-aged children drown in bathtubs than are killed in such shootings, but we don't hear demands that adult possession of a bathtub be made a felony. More school-aged children are killed by cops than by school mass shootings, but kids don't have cop drills in which they're trained on how to behave if they ever encounter a cop, to reduce their risk of being killed or falsely convicted of a crime. I could have benefited from such a drill, as I had no idea that cops lie. Lots of people who are shot by cops while trying to follow their directions could have benefited from such a drill. If cops are pointing a gun at you, *freeze*, and do not move even if they order you to. That may increase your risk of a beating, tasing, or resisting-arrest charge, but it will decrease the odds of your being shot dead, since a trigger-happy cop may not notice that you're following the orders of another cop. The recent Crumbley verdicts and sentences, holding parents guilty if their kid shoots up a school, will go a long way toward ensuring that parents never again trust their children. For every odd kid who shoots up a school, there are a million odd kids who are perfectly harmless, and whose childhoods will now be ruined by daily parental interrogations and strip searches. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.