NSR: A gun on Every Corner: Discuss the NRA, Gun Ownership and All Those Non-Mass Shootings..

It was more complicated than that in several ways-- for example some slaves took advantage of the wartime chaos to burn down houses and even kill their owners, and that was illegal under the new emancipation conditions as much as the old; and small slaveholders in the western confederacy often turned their one or two slaves out and drove them off because they could not feed them as the blockade tightened down, and these people did not all go to the Union army for help-- some scraped out whtever feral existence they could in the woods and swamps.
Some of the folks who served in the army were demobilized without any real provision for them, and so forth. Think of all the ways one can become homeless today, and add several more unique to the conditions of their time, and then add in that lots of these people had no particular incentive to be constructive about it, and there you are. The routes were not all simple, but the results much the same.

Same was true for the thousands of paroled Confederate soldiers who were released to just walk home from Appomattox or Central Carolina or Selma or East Texas. And the distance between guerilla and bandit is very short indeed... And a lot of them were armed or at least familiar with the use of guns and blades.

The after math was similar to that after WWII-- a huge number of people at loose ends far from anyplace familiar-- in many cases their familiar places no longer existed-- amidst a ruined infrastructure and with a recent education in violence and rapine... The union armies marched home or became occupiers and continued to be housed and fed. The confederate soldiers, half-starved and in rags, were issued a few rations and told to go home and sin no more. Relief at the war's end turned into desperation for many-- and they were better off than lots of the freedmen.

The rail route to the West Coast was open, and gold from Idaho was about to pay for the war and the rebuild, and a boom was in the offing-- but nobody knew that yet.

 

It was founded as a fraternal organization like Ralph Kramden’s Elk Lodge or whatever it was called, but within a year its originators had lost control and it became what you’re describing here.

 

This isn’t true.

And it’s not just me nitpicking…the Republican Party was founded on the free labor ideology, so they were never going to implement a 40 acres and a mule plan. To think they would is anachronistic. Republicans weren’t going to give freemen 40 acres and a mule any more than they were going to pass laws saying racial employment discrimination was illegal. It’s not how they thought or operated.

Understanding the free labor ideology will help you understand business and labor history up through Teddy Roosevelt, who was a very different kind of Republican and upset the ideological apple cart. (Well, that plus the fact that the conditions that made Republicans come together in the 1850s over this ideology were gone in 1901. It made no sense in an industrialized and industrializing economy.)

 

Racoon Lodge you ninny...get it right!

 

National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom dies after shooting in Washington DC

Trump says the US will “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries”, following the shooting

 

And, if I remember correctly from another article, review already issued Green cards to people of a number of countries on the list. I know a couple people who might be affected.

 

Kentucky State University in Frankfort: At least 1 dead in a shooting | CNN

One person is dead and another remains in critical condition after a shooting at Kentucky State University upended students’ final exams of the semester before they go on winter break, police said.
The suspect is in custody, police said.

 

Frankfort police said a suspect was taken into custody around 3:40 p.m.

Frankfort police have identified the suspect as 48-year-old Jacob Lee Bard of Evansville, Indiana. Bard has been charged with murder and assault. Police say Bard is a parent of a KSU student.

Frankfort police said the shooting happened in the Young Hall area, which is on the south side of campus.​

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https://www.wlwt.com/article/shooting-kentucky-state-university-victim-identified-suspect/69686825

 

Here's what I don't understand about the Luigi Mangione situation:

Don't the cops have a right to check his backpack for their own safety? Now they're talking about having that thrown out.

So it seems they're only gonna throw that out as evidence and it won't be a thing where the cops overstepped boundaries.

But then what might this mean for other situations? If a cop runs someone's plates and they come back as stolen, the guy speeds away, runs red lights, drives on the wrong side of the road, etc etc....they finally pull the guy over and they see all sorts of cash, white powder and scales in the car, they're gonna test the powder.

It seems like this might be a slippery slope here.

Should they not be allowed to use as evidence what was found in the backpack?

 

I'm not following the case closely enough to comment on its application here, but if you search for Fruit of the Poisonous Tree doctrine, you'll probably find a fairly concise explanation.

 

Cops can't go up to a person, search their stuff without permission or warrant, and use that as evidence.

 

Unless they have probable cause.

 

They definitely had probable cause to search the pockets.

You'd think someone would have to go through the backpack eventually...like say, during the initial booking process.

I was watching a televised arrest where 4-5 people in one car were pulled over. All but one were men. The cop went through the purse, found some drugs, and of course, she denied the drugs as being hers. Of course she got in trouble for the possession.

They all do. Every time. It may not be the operator's vehicle, but the operator is still responsible for the stuff inside. "It's not my car bro!" or "These are my cousin's pants!" or the classic "This weed and pipe shoved in my bra aren't mine! I'm merely holding them for my friend!"

For the backpack, again, they're most likely eventually going to go through it for documentation purposes.

It'll definitely be interesting to see what happens with the contents.

 

According to defense evidence, they didn't do that. It was searched at McD and then again, with body camera off and officer alone, for an hour when damning evidence was then found.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...g-death-mit-professor-live-updates-rcna249937

A person of interest in the Brown University shooting has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

 

Shooter was a Brown grad student in physics like 25 yrs ago. By his gait & girth I assumed a middle age dude

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...g-death-mit-professor-live-updates-rcna249937

 

This didn't take long

Trump suspends green card lottery program that allowed Brown, MIT shooting suspect to enter U.S.

The diversity visa program makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the U.S., many of them in Africa.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...lottery-brown-shooting-mit-suspect-rcna250034

 

Piecing together all the different news articles it looks like this was the work of a very smart middle-aged Portuguese citizen who went postal. He apparently switched license plates on his rental car and used a phone modified to suppress tracking. The hall he shot up in Brown is where he attended PhD physics classes decades ago. The Portuguese MIT professor was a classmate at Instituto Superior Tecnico of Lisboa although they seem not to have been well acquainted.

It looks like a really severe bout of mid-life crises ending in a shooting spree motivated by jealousy.

 

Yep, it’s that time of year