In the case of The Covenant School and other similar shootings, “where the armed intruder came from outside of the building or walked the halls with the weapon brandished,” Braisted said Omnilert’s technology
Nor was a gun useful in a moment of fury; it took too long to use and was too potentially ineffectual in the heat of the moment. The very nature of the mechanical, slow process for loading and triggering made it a weapon of cool threat rather than hot-blooded violence. As a result, ...
But the gamer has more say in how the killing happens, in how the act is represented (as a simple example, one gamer may prefer to use a shotgun weapon for the sense of immediate power it provides; another may use a chainsaw instead to generate gratuitous goreFootnote 9). The gamer ...
“The bar scene gets pretty old after a while,” says Hall. “Twelve years. I can’t go to school and play music four or five nights a week, (which is) the only thing I’ve been doing for years. It’s amazing I’ve been able to survive this long. It wears you down. Being ...
and I'm wondering if there's going to be any point using the starter spells once I start getting the points for stronger spells, but I guess we'll see about that. The way weapons have multiple skills is pretty cool, and I like that I can just use whatever weapon I want a...
us repeatedly why we weren’t doing anything to avenge the murders of Luci and her mother. We eventually asked him if he wanted to risk going to prison for the rest of his life. Belching forth a fiery rage he said, “Of course I do!” We brought Aaron into the fold on the ...
Stella wants us to know we are loved. She counts everyone in the house and calls walks short when one of her sheep is missing. She lets the cats cuddle her more, even as she yields her dog beds to their mischief. I don’t think she wants to die. I don’t know if she knows she...
Dream of shooting involving a sniper- The sniper is a long-range weapon and indicates that emotions work and so emotions can be very difficult to manage. To see a military marksman use a sniper in a dream can be connected to your goals and ambitions in life. Remember a sniper comes from...
The suicide prevention movement could use more movement. We know who is dying, how they are dying, and why they are dying. To stop the dying we need action; not from the few of us knee deep in this work, but from all the rest. It’s time for the fretful, the critics, and the ...
School shooters often leak hints about their plans before they carry them out, said O’Toole, the former FBI profiler. “I’ve seen it in nearly every case. And leakage is very specific because it is the shooter talking about what they’re going to do before they do it,” she said....