• “If you attack a school here in Utah, you’re going to be confronted,” said [Matt] Pennington. “it’s not a soft target anymore.”

    just one of those cool things people with regular brains says right before tactically deploying themselves to affect a kinetic response after a family court ruling.

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      right before tactically deploying themselves to affect a kinetic response after a family court ruling.

      Do you have family that are cops? The wording is perfect. agony-yehaw

      • lol, thankfully no. I’ve just heard so much of that mil-speak in media and observed it’s infiltration into business lingo that I can code switch to it at will by simply decreasing the amount of oxygen going to my brain.

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          “War on” and “battle against” and all that tacticool talk is used when talking about everything from poverty (and covering it up instead of actually helping with it) and cancer (which involves perseverance feel-good stories instead of actually helping people with it), too.

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      Paying cops to patrol schools and stop shootings won’t work because they just hide in fhe closet. Paying Paul Blart to show up in non-standardized gear will surely save the children.