# Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 26, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428 "2022-01-26T17:10:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 57
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1121 "2023-05-03T02:03:29Z")
I just came here to post this. I’m honestly surprised he was taken alive, and hope he didn’t harm anyone else in the meantime. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1122 "2023-05-03T02:27:06Z")
I would have put money that he fucked off back to Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1123 "2023-05-03T02:29:14Z")
If you’re not into PDF links, [here is the Wiki entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_and_Shoot,_Texas). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1124 "2023-05-03T02:47:31Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > This just in on CNN: > > > The man [accused of fatally shooting five people](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/us/cleveland-texas-neighbor-shooting-monday/index.html), including a mother and her 9-year-old son, at a neighbor’s home in Texas has been taken into custody after a dayslong manhunt, two law enforcement sources told CNN. > > > > The arrest was made in the town of Cut and Shoot, Texas, according to a federal law enforcement source. Cut and Shoot is roughly 17 miles west of Cleveland, Texas, where the killings took place. > > “Cut and Shoot, Texas”? Seriously? Obviously, the fugitive was thinking “_Cut and Shoot, Texas? How on the nose is that? Nobody’d EVER think of looking for me there!_” ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1125 "2023-05-03T03:34:31Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Obviously, the fugitive was thinking “_Cut and Shoot, Texas? How on the nose is that? Nobody’d EVER think of looking for me there!_” One of the most notable places in Cut and Shoot, Texas is ‘[Time to Spare](https://bit.ly/3noP1Vz)’ entertainment… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1126 "2023-05-03T03:52:06Z")
One of my brothers just moved to Conroe, which is just down the street from Cut And Shoot. I’ll have to ask him if he has heard anything. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1127 "2023-05-04T07:18:50Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > As stated in the other thread, why does this stupid fearful asshole even HAVE a doorbell? > > If he’s that terrified of little girls in his neighborhood, he should either move, or set up barbed wire, metal fortifications, bars on the windows and a moat filled with shark with frickin laser beams on the top of their heads. And dogs that shoot bees out of their mouths. > > Terrified little man. Oh, like his HOA would allow dogs. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1128 "2023-05-05T01:40:23Z")
Finally some progress. After years and dozens of dead students, someone is actually doing something about it, they are finally banning… backpacks??? > **[A Michigan school district has banned students from carrying backpacks](https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173918607/flint-school-district-backpack-ban)** > > Flint Community Schools said it has concerns about the national landscape of gun violence across the nation. The ban went into effect Monday. Well… fuck. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1129 "2023-05-05T02:21:04Z")
What, even the see-through ones? Even the bulletproof ones? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1130 "2023-05-05T02:33:08Z")
The only thing bulletproof is the pubbies’ arguments against gun control. At least it appears that’s what they believe. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1131 "2023-05-05T05:18:04Z")
I guess it seems dumb, but what else can a school district do? They can (and do) ban guns in the school, but since the damn things are endemic in the culture, and more numerous than rats in a landfill, they can’t enforce it. They might frisk every student, which they can’t and shouldn’t, or install metal detectors which are too expensive, and what about 3d printed guns? I can see where active shooter drills aren’t doing all that much other than traumatizing kids. Banning back packs obviously won’t stop shootings, but this ban will at least make it more difficult for _students_ to get guns on campus. Sigh, Lawmakers need to quit ahemm, “servicing” the NRA and the rest of the gun lobby. The way things stand now, schools and everyone else can only flounder helplessly, and slap on inadequate bandages to try and mitigate the damage. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1132 "2023-05-05T10:02:39Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > They might frisk every student, which they can’t and shouldn’t, “Our new loincloth dress code is for your safety.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1133 "2023-05-05T11:36:44Z")
“And while we’re searching for guns we can also check you have the correct genitals. Can’t be too careful.” ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1134 "2023-05-05T12:05:02Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > I guess it seems dumb, but what else can a school district do? I don’t blame the district, as you say, what else can they do. I blame the society that put the district into a position of taking such a stupid and useless step. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1135 "2023-05-05T13:05:38Z")
But some of the school shootings (like Sandy Hook) were from an outsider entering the school, so banning backpacks carried by students does nothing to address those. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1136 "2023-05-05T13:37:26Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > But some of the school shootings (like Sandy Hook) were from an outsider entering the school, so banning backpacks carried by students does nothing to address those If only there was some common factor to all these massacres, like a specific tool that was used in all of them, which we could reduce access to! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1137 "2023-05-05T13:41:09Z")
That’s crazy talk. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1138 "2023-05-05T13:43:10Z")
Yeah, I mean what are you proposing, that we ban _doors_?! ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1139 "2023-05-05T14:23:40Z")
Doors can be locked and monitored. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1140 "2023-05-05T14:44:37Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Yeah, I mean what are you proposing, that we ban _doors_?! - That would mean the kids are safely kept away from an even more dangerous weapon. Education. Maybe that’s been the Deep State Right’s plan all along. /s [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428.md?page=58)