The Tenth Man

Whenever gun violence takes place, the politicians in charge throw up their hands and blame someone else.  They enact new gun laws and the people are satisfied - until it happens again.

It's time for a new approach.  Let's stop letting off the politicians for shedding crocodile tears but doing nothing to stop the crimes.

There are many examples of politicians being held accountable but only for other failures.  Anything and everything is punished - except the failure of letting your constituents be shot.

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Have you heard that America has twenty times the homicide rate of Japan?  Have you heard why that is?  You have probably been told it’s because there are so few guns there. 
That’s not it at all.  There are cultural differences which are significant.  But there are differences in their criminal justice system which are huge.  One of those differences is capital punishment.
The Japanese like the feeling of safety they enjoy in their country.  The majority also support capital punishment.
Is the execution of a criminal abhorrent?  Yes.
Murder is worse.

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Jennifer Crumbley is going to prison, caught in the jaws of power abuse.  The prosecutor is more interested in personal fame than in justice, and shining a light on domestic violence would expose her own culpability. 

Follow the trail from small-town tragedy - the Oxford Targeted Shooting - to Division One football, the corporate world and Hollywood, not to mention the mainstream media and even academia, because the individual most at fault for the tragedy has powerful connections in each of these worlds.

Connections moulded in the fire of domestic violence.  Violence committed by a Division I football coach and a rap star, Sean Puffy Combs.

It's easier to prosecute a helpless mother - Jennifer Crumbley -  with no resources, than to attack a woman with powerful friends, one whose dereliction exposes that prosecutor's own culpability.  

And it gives a selfish prosecutor much more glory to lead "the first prosecution of parents" than it would to simply identify the one employee at Oxford schools who had the power, and the job description, to have prevented the massacre.

Feeding the hungry mob of "Moms Who Need a Cause"  is an added bonus.

Correction: The mention of Stanford U is an error; it was Vanderbilt

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You’re in charge of children’s safety at a high school.   When a shooter attacks, you would be in lots of trouble, right?   Maybe not.

The parents of the shooter are in jail without breaking any laws, but the administrators of Oxford Schools are either unaffected or benefitted from the tragedy, despite proof of being in violation of policy by an investigation.

Five are named in the investigation; none are punished and one is actually praised.  What happened to each one?

What punishment have school staff received for real infractions?

None, I'm afraid.

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In part two of the series on the aftermath of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting we contrast the fate of the shooter's parents, jailed for their son's actions, with the apparent immunity of school administrators despite identified failures. The epsiode scrutinizes the accusations against the parents, including the purchase of a gun and alleged negligence in foreseeing their son's violent behavior, highlighting the lack of legal basis for such charges.
The investigation, conducted by Guidepost Solutions, is critiqued for its focus on blaming the parents while overlooking the school's failure to follow its own policies and standard security practices. The facts indicate that the school's decision-making, particularly regarding the shooter's behavior and the handling of the situation, contributed significantly to the tragedy.
Further, the channel explores broader issues of gun ownership, societal attitudes towards guns, and the role of schools in managing student behavior and potential threats. It questions the effectiveness of current approaches to school safety and gun laws, suggesting a need for more comprehensive strategies that address underlying issues such as mental health and bullying.
The episode concludes by calling for a reevaluation of school policies and societal attitudes towards gun ownership and mental health, advocating for a more engaged approach to prevent such tragedies in the future.

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An independent investigation says Oxford High could have prevented the deaths of four and woundings of seven others in 2021.  That statement is incomplete. The school caused the attack.

Previous video showed how schools in America emphasize sports scholarships over progress for all students.  

Our schools marginalize kids and create bullying situations.  Did that happen at Oxford high? Yes.  Bullied students were suicide victims in 2012 and 2013.  In 2017 they were featured on ABC news.

Authorities have been silent on bullying in the Crumley case, but he was exposed to significant risk factors in his life. 

The failure of the school to prevent the attack is now well recognized.  Why the attack became inevitable; this factor has been ignored, and the professionals who failed go unpunished.

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Everybody knows the News is political garbage. Now it's spread to the weather.  With the need to make every weather report a disaster, they talk endlessly about "Wind Chill", and imaginary statistic based on feelings. 

And we know they love feelings in the media.

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Keeping the facts straight on Gaza, Climate, Gun Grabbing and Gal Jabbing.

Childhood memories of the Kennedy assassination

Technology is good but could be better

Women are great in the kitchen - as decorators

Putting a mom in jail for doing nothing

Gaza, Cliimate and more

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Hamas attacks Israel on Saturday, pro-terror riots on Sunday.   How does that happen?

Are there really women in the Army?

What really happened in today's so-called "school shooting"

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Rashida Tlaib is in the news but - strangely - unhappy to be there

Don't take a knife to a gunfight but thanks for trying.

A demonstration of wasting time and money - it's much worse than just wasting time and money.  Even tragic

So called "mass shootings" and "school shootings" do very much happen elsewhere.  Shootings being the lesser of two problems.

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The investigation of the Targeted School Shooting at Oxford High is in.  Given the obvious results, it's hard to believe the parents of the criminal have been jailed for two years without a trial.
  
  An Idaho woman sues the state because her abortion in another state didn't go as smoothly as she'd hoped.
  
  Wildfires happen if there's something to burn and you should evacuate when the alarm fails to go off.
  
  Lewiston Maine mass murderer and suicide shows again the government will always do the wrong thing. 

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This is a video exposing the truth about the continued attack on gun rights.  As world politicians exclaim about  “school shootings” and “mass shootings” – events which are rare to non-existent-  the most common example to intentionally taking human life is not homicide but suicide.  Indeed, most of the world has a problem with suicide, but in America it is an epidemic.

Nor are guns linked with these deaths.  The world over suicide may or may not be a problem regardless of the presence of guns. 

While the gun-ban fanatics champion more gun laws, the far greater danger of suicide is ignored.  Proving again that they love gun laws more than public safety. 

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Europe has kids, it has guns and it has schools.   Therefore it also has school shootings.  But not so many as in the US.

Kids, guns and schools are the three ingredients.  Which one sets apart these two geographies?

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Politicians and the news media put a "race" slant on every issue and story.  That's odd because every relevant authority says that race does not exist. 

Explore the origins of the philosophy that negates race, and why society refuses to give it up.

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A strike is when a group of people unite against their employer giving up their pay in order to force the company to treat them fairly.   Which of these conditions is true of the UAW stoppage?  Any of them?

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The Climate Change scam has a tactic of blaming the west in general and the US in particular for any weather event.

Frequent disastrous floods in Pakistan are one darling or the climate change scam.  But let's see how Pakistan itself has responded to these disasters, then compare to how Americans react when faced with similar events.

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You have all been told that the US has “mass killings” every day.  This is false. I know this will surprise you, but while there is gang and drug violence in our urban centers, it is a myth created by the Left that men stalk our streets daily nationwide killing at random.  There are many aspects to this myth.  This podcast attacks one of them - the organization which in 2013 suddenly changed the number of actual “mass killings” from one a month into one a day just through data manipulation and word play.  Here's the story of Mark Bryant, Director of The Gun Violence Archive.

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George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are just two of several examples the fake news uses to show that Stand your Ground laws are a threat to public safety.

We examine four times they have come up and might even have worked, but did not. 

Renisha McBride  Brennan Walker

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A popular news story tells how black women and babies suffer horrible rates of mortality during and after childbirth.   The common wisdom ascribes the problem to racism. 

Systemic racism.  White supremacy.  And weathering. 

A black mother has no control over the outcome.  Or does she?

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Ready anytime to create a story from nothing, the New York Times comes through again.  The US is the world leader in producing bitcoin.   Good for us, right? 

But there must be some way we can make that into a horror story, right?

Turns out you need electricity.  On no!!

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