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I'm a terrible person, my first thought after seeing the "ban guns" and "good luck killing 50 with a knife" was 'trebuchets loaded with knives' and it seems like there are lots of layers of inappropriateness there.

Including poor performance. It's hard enough to kill someone with a flying knife when they're close and you're in relatively precise control, a siege engine induced knife rain probably has worse odds of killing a mass of people than just taking some of the knives and stabbing them by hand.

Any case, if nothing else, can say the LVPD look to deserve some kudos this time. Response time was pretty damn impressive, and it's more than a little likely they stopped a good chunk of people from getting shot up.

Heh. GOP mouths brushing it off as mental illness, anyway. Then promptly and persistently does damn near everything it can to kneecap the fields related to treating the issues related, wreck attempts towards outreach in hopes of preventing all sorts of shit, and shame attempts to seek help. All while very much intentionally and persistently trying to destroy any and all capability, government or otherwise, to track warning signs.

Either they don't actually think that's the case, are "just" incompetent to the point it's indistinguishable from malice, or for some fucked up reason intermittent mass murder and all sorts of other fuck ups related to the subject are a desired goal. Goddamn republican party being what it is these days, I can't actually tell which or what combination of that it is.

It might not hurt, but it's not like those are getting us to do much about infrastructure maintenance/weatherproofing and building regulations either, if that's the desired effect

Not. Not easy, is the answer. Especially if you don't want firearms that are likely to be a handheld bomb instead of a gun. Gunsmithing of any sort beyond the very, very trivial is pretty tough, and conversion is sometimes harder than outright building from scratch. Plus basic metalworking tools are going to have a bastard of a time producing decent stuff. Firearms take some specialized stuff (don't think by much, mind, but there's bits that aren't really general use junk that helps quite a bit) or a metric fuckton of experience to produce much in the way of quality, most of the time.

Any case, prez spoke. Actually heard the first broadcast. Content was fairly generic (the religious bits in general were sketchy coming out of trump's mouth, now that I think about it), presentation started bored and transitioned into interchangeable church sermon prayer request. Could have been worse.

Yeah, things can get done pretty fast on that front, these days. May they be as quick to offer good references in the future.

Hey, it can take longer than whatever that period is to work through the replacement process, and if it comes to it that process is a lot easier to stop or put on hold than a hole in your workforce. Boss is just being proactive :V

... also you demonstrate one of the reasons a lot of people don't ask whatever their equivalent to HR is about things like that, heh. Even if there's just curiosity rather than intent it's a thing that can get a replacement lined up for you.

Eh, there's certainly concrete steps you can take on that front. Getting the symptoms under control tends to make identifying and/or curing the disease easier. I hear third party watchdogs for police departments help quite a bit, ferex. Body cam stuff helps, too, if kinda' requiring people to stop buying bullshit when the cams just happen to not work for some reason. Infrastructure style stuff (police funding, welfare to reduce possible friction points, etc., etc., etc.) can be done there, too, so long as the will and the money is there to make it happen.

Buncha' crap, really. Complicated shit doesn't tend to lend well to simple solutions, but hitting as many points as you can can work out decently, as things go.

... amusingly/appropriately enough, though, one of the likely causes of that particular disease includes white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement, heh. Certain chunks of our population happen to rather like being able to take advantage of those symptoms and/or make them worse.