Rise of the Teachers blog.
Hat tip. This is the interesting story about how teachers are blogging like crazy, I should let some of my blogging colleagues know about this.
In other news, I'm sure everyones thoughts and payers are with the victims today at VT. However we've already got the gun lobby being recalcitrant, it's not their fault. We've got Jack Thompson blaming the video games. The Anti gun lobby is, pardon the pun, up on arms about whether tighter gun controls would have helped ? People demanding inquiries as to how come the campus is so unprotected... why there are no metal detectors at the gates. People seem to be forgetting these styles of campus are far harder to guard than a school with maybe one of two central choke points. I can't imagine Southampton which is a pretty small laid out campus attempting to protect itself with those kind of measures. Guess I'm relying on it being overall pretty difficult to get a gun in the UK.
Extremists on both sides are picking through the analysis in an effort to vilify the oppositions, this is all whilst the "Police investigation is still on going" - peeps the head of Campus police.
This is still a developing situation with some next of kin not notified at 0035 GMT.
Update The gun was store bought, last week. So that puts pay to the argument that tighter gun controls wouldn't have had an impact. Well maybe the kid would still have gotten one off e-bay, but it would have been more difficult than dropping by the general store to pick one up claiming you were "gonna shoot river rats".
In other news, I'm sure everyones thoughts and payers are with the victims today at VT. However we've already got the gun lobby being recalcitrant, it's not their fault. We've got Jack Thompson blaming the video games. The Anti gun lobby is, pardon the pun, up on arms about whether tighter gun controls would have helped ? People demanding inquiries as to how come the campus is so unprotected... why there are no metal detectors at the gates. People seem to be forgetting these styles of campus are far harder to guard than a school with maybe one of two central choke points. I can't imagine Southampton which is a pretty small laid out campus attempting to protect itself with those kind of measures. Guess I'm relying on it being overall pretty difficult to get a gun in the UK.
Extremists on both sides are picking through the analysis in an effort to vilify the oppositions, this is all whilst the "Police investigation is still on going" - peeps the head of Campus police.
This is still a developing situation with some next of kin not notified at 0035 GMT.
Update The gun was store bought, last week. So that puts pay to the argument that tighter gun controls wouldn't have had an impact. Well maybe the kid would still have gotten one off e-bay, but it would have been more difficult than dropping by the general store to pick one up claiming you were "gonna shoot river rats".
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