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 No one hurt.  No one injured.

Well except for the mental damage (I found my daughter binging info on school shootings).  And of course missing a day of learning.  And then there are the costs for everyone scrambling around.  But aside from that no one was hurt.  Thanks goodness.

Our country looks like a case study for psych 101.  Doing something that you think makes your feel better even though it actually makes you worse off.  What am I talking about?  Guns.  More guns do not make you safer from gun violence, they make you much more likely to be hurt by gun violence.  Why won't/ can't we take all handguns and guns that use magazines out of circulation?  

If a person walks into a school, or store, or church, or roof top with a bolt action rife how many shots you think they will get off?  If they are lucky and good a handfull.  How many from an AR15 type weapon or an auto handgun?  Many magnitudes more.  Why do we allow our country to be so dangerous?  Cause some guys wrote something in the founding rule book (constitution) about guns in a well regulated militia?  They also allowed for slavery and didn't allow women or people of color to vote.  Maybe they got the idea that individuals should be allowed to posses weapons of war wrong (or maybe the current courts are interpreting the 2nd amendment wrong).

Now I gotta see if I can get my daughter back to watching something sensible and safe like Real Housewives.

daughter home safe

 her science class is just behind the police man

lots of rumor very little facts at this point.  maybe a nothing burger maybe much worse.  What I know for sure is these kids won't feel the same about school any time soon.

also how the heck do you pratice run, hide fight?  

Why the kids are so fucked up

 Im sitting in snowmass way off the beaten path listening to police sirens and fielding calls from my daughter about a school shooting.  Do I believe there is an active shooter at Aspen School District----NO. (update that seems to be wrong being told SHOTS FIRED AT ELEMENTRY SCHOOL) But even the threat of it takes the school to lock down, scrambles the Pitkin County police, Aspen Police Department, Snowmass Village Police Department and Basalt police department (update ER DOCS BEING TOLD TO REPORT TO HOSPITAL).  And the ambulances are rolling in.  We got a message about a lock down drill yesterday.  Today seems to be acting like the real deal (although as I said I am betting this is a fake threat).

Yesterday's lock down drill email stressed that they were going to practice 'locks, lights out of sight'.  They ask staff to lock the doors turn out the lights and move away from sight and be silent.  The FBI recommends Run, Hide Fight--I am a believer in the FBI approach and have told my daughter to run like hell, not be a stationary target in a room.  She has left the school and gone to a friends house near school to wait it out.  Update at friends house with ER doc told to head to hospital--friends house has a lot of guns which is good and bad ---what if school shooter comes there and cops don't know who bad guy is.

There are a ton of cops with body armor and long guns running around school.  The older kids with phones and a later start than elementary school are fleeing.  The younger kids without phones are stuck in what feels like a war zone.  Seems like maybe a gun on a school bus trigger the thing but that is pure speculation.

But here are the facts:

1.  more guns results in more gun violence not a safer place

2.  this country is using the excuse of the 2nd amendment to enable gun violence (well regulated milita anyone)

3.  There hasn't been a shooting-killing in Aspen in 40 years

4.  Aspen kids bring guns to parties

5.  No one is learning anything at the school today but their cortosile levels are dangerously high

more updates when I have them---please forgive the poor writing --working fast

you don't get that in NYC or Chicago or LA or.......

 email from school----4 elementary classes evacuated due to a release of bear spray

Girls varsity state playoffs (they won it all BTW) parent is broadcasting via an ipad ---ipad froze, it was -15 for the 8 pm game ---OUTSIDE --- in Gunnison CO

fresh snow lots of mornings showing-----a lot of wild life tracks.  Yes bunnies, and deer and elk and ......mountain lions

email from school---this bus won't be running, that bus won't be running --hope you don't actually need to depend on the busses because the school district doesn't have enough drivers

taking the dogs for a walk and finding a guy in a tree well.  I asked if he needed help and he said yea, he needed help getting out of a tree well and maybe with the new hole in his face (that doesn't happen in central park, or Runyon canyon)--dogs got a abbreviated walk and this lifty got a ride to the hospital and I got to clean the blood off the floor mats (face holes bleed a lot)