“An anonymous caller told police his roommate was headed to Yale University in New Haven, Conn., to shoot people, and witnesses spotted a man with a shotgun or rifle in the area, prompting Monday’s campus shutdown,” latimes.com reports. “In a phone call that lasted only a few seconds, a male caller told a 911 operator that ‘his roommate was on his way to the university, to Yale University, to shoot people,’ said New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman in a televised news conference. No shots or injuries have been reported as police swarmed the Ivy League campus, and Hartman could not confirm any arrests or detentions, nor provide a description of the suspect.” The Yale website announces: “Out of an abundance of caution, Police will be doing a room to room search starting with the residential college areas. Shelter in Place continues.”
It seems to me that a comparison to the Sig 716 is more apt than the SCAR.
And those two shots in the red were caused by the trigger actuator, not the rifle. Don’t kid yourself.
As Ricky Bobby would do…
No offense, but I don’t get all the hand wringing over an old dying commie.
I did a quick and cursory check. I don’t see that he was a communist. His family was deported to siberia, where his father died and he came close to dying, by the communists.
Given the quality of the area surrounding Yale, it would be big news if there were no armed persons nearby. Especially this week, when there are no classes and anyone who can leave is on a train or plane back to mom and dad’s place where Dad will carve the turkey and Mom will wash their underwear.
We’ve found a witch… may we burn her?
More of the same solicitous drama continues; beware the big bad gun(man).
Any sign of Shannon yet? She’s bound to pop up soon, impulsive opportunist that she and Bloomberg are, coming up on the anniversary of Sandy Hook and all.
You know that’s going to be one big grabber fest; lots of red.
Breaking News: Gunfire Reported at Best of the West Shooting Range. Cops Suspect “Gun Nuts.”
Well done. Good read.
Question: What will you do for a living once you are weeded out of our educational system?
Great write up, and excellent lesson topic. This makes me miss teaching.
I think a good way to nudge fence-sitters in the direction of liberty is to expose them to an overbearing government.
And the heat under the frog pot gets turned up another notch…
I teach at the collegiate level, specifically national security affairs with more of a international focus than a domestic one. Even so I have my students discuss current events as a part of the daily curriculum and we have spent a good amount of time on domestic issues like firearms and crime. It has been fascinating listening to these college seniors work through (or not) issues like this. I love prodding them with the kinds of questions you presented to your class.
I also have made sure to make it clear what my biases are as we discuss these topics so they know where I am coming from as I present information and can account for that bias as they listen to me and form an opinion on what I present. I would encourage you to do the same, if possible, and be open with your students about how you view the world and then encourage them to challenge that understanding. Since I am not seeking tenure or even longevity in this current job I do have that freedom and understand if you are seeking to sustain this as a career that might not be an option.
I played with the Bushmaster ORC a few years ago. Clocked in at ~$1300 at the time but funky handguards, a chintzy stock and not one amenity explained the price. I gave this serious thought but LMT has a caliber exchange friendly system for several rounds below .308 and cheese grater or not the handguards free float quite well. You clock in at just a bit higher and get a more modular gun with some higher accuracy potential out of the box.
Unless you just want an easy to shoot plunked and aren’t picky. This has more than nothing, far more. And it can modified without Issue to your hearts content. It isn’t a Caddie but everyone doesn’t need a Caddie; a few options and ergos with easy to get mags go a long way. A lot of buyers don’t do due diligence but those are the same people who wouldn’t appreciate much of what they could find with that same diligence. So it fits a wide demographic just at that.
Simply because it works and has good service life but isn’t just no frills. That’s enough for a lot of folks. I would have bought this if it were out before my tastes refined instead of the Bushmaster far and away.
Police on the radio reported keeping an eye on an “older white man, balding, in a heavy overcoat, walking toward” Linsley-Chittenden Hall.
OMG! It’s Chester the Molester!
What manner of tomfoolery is this?
I just gave my SKS a little comforting pat on her stock and told her “All that money sure would buy you a lot of ammo”.
Or… you could just buy a pistol that doesn’t require such a device. Heck, if you’re this careless on your draw/holstering technique, then just buy a HK P7M8/PSP/P7M10/P7M13 and have one of the safest pistols around.
That being said, I have no problem holstering my pistols with my booger hook off the bang switch. And I’d never consider carrying a pistol without a round in the chamber, unless I somehow inherited some pre-1900 antique revolver that wasn’t drop safe.
Lone nut, unnamed motive(s); this is my shocked face.
“The total weight of the guns and ammunition from the shooter at SHES was 30.47 lbs.”
Honest question: Is this something LEOs actually investigate after crimes? I’m trying to think of a scenario where this would be relevant info.
Article on HuffPo (one of many), still gets details wrong. Ammo for the Bushmaster was 5.56; they’re still reporting .223.
The police are lying to cover for Lanza’s rich father at best.
At worst… well… I’m not even going to bother with how much they could be lying about, we all know that since there has been no court case and any potentially guilty parties are dead they could, theoretically just make the whole thing up.
I don’t want to believe it, but until they produce some actual information from Lanza’s family and people who knew him, it will gnaw at me. The silence regarding the entire Lanza clan is deafening. All we hear from are the family of victims, calling for the stripping of your rights to save the children. We should care about where this alleged perpetrator came from and how he came to commit such a heinous act.
This is why we have to ban rapid-fire assault clips!
I’m calling BS and fail.
A public school class with 8 students? A multi week project on firearms? Where is this idyllic public shool with funding to support “very diverse” 8 student classes and no Zero Tolerance policy?
Unbiased my foot. Redneck, really? Drives a ridiculous pickup and wears cowboy boots? Has “implied that Obama should die”? Then there’s the “squirrely” conservative kid with military parents who not only watch Fox News but “get their opinions” from it.
Just another example of the state of ‘modern’ education. Let the students ‘teach’ themselves and validate diametrically opposed conclusions with a passing grade. How progressive.
To top it off the exercise culminates in a non-sequitor. Given all that they’ve ‘learned’ “…what’s the best solution for stopping violent crime in the United States?” Huh? I thought the class was “A History of Firearms in the United States”?
Next, the history of the crowbar and the best solution to burglary in the United States.
The public deserves the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This summary from Sedensky falls short.
The summary sticks to the “we still don’t know why” while leaving bread crumbs to vague areas.
It does note that they are busily working to redact much of the real report.
And what about all of those people who blithely go about their business at places where mass-high-power-assault-rifle-shooting have not YET happened? There should be a story about that too.
That has to be the greatest departure of the basic AR-15 profile so far.
Looks like they have too many tax dollars. When they spend “my/our” money with no regard or reason then maybe I need to claim less income. I feel cheated, because there was a lot I could have done with that money – like a college trust fund.