‘Gun free zone’ law disarmed Virginia Beach shooting victim, attorney says

The night before Kate Nixon and 11 others were murdered by a disgruntled co-worker, the decade-long Virginia Beach city employee talked with her husband about bringing a gun to work for self-defense — a decision that was taken out of her hands by the city’s ban on employees carrying firearms at work, a Nixon family lawyer said.

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“Kate expressed to her husband concerns about this individual in particular, as well as one other person,” Nixon family attorney Kevin Martingayle told WHRV’s “HearSay with Cathy Lewis” radio showMonday.  “In fact, they had a discussion the night before about whether or not she should take a pistol and hide it in her handbag — and decided not to, ultimately, because there’s a policy apparently against having any kind of weapons that are concealed in the building.”

Many years ago after one of the many massacres committed by a mentally disturbed individual a friend commented to me, “I’m not going out like that!  I’m not hiding under a desk, crying and praying that they aren’t going to kill me.  If I don’t have a weapon I’m going to make a weapon, or use something, whatever I can find, as a weapon.  But I’m Not Going Out Like That!”.

Joe Biden was the asshole that inflicted “Gun Free Zones” insanity on this country.  Remember that.

Why HBO’s “Chernobyl” Gets Nuclear So Wrong

Since the start of HBO’s mini-series about the 1986 nuclear disaster, “Chernobyl,” journalists have praised the series for getting the facts of the event right, even if its creators took some creative liberties.

“The first thing to understand about the HBO mini-series “Chernobyl,” wrote a reporter for The New York Times, “is that a lot of it is made up. But here’s the second, and more important, thing: It doesn’t really matter.”

Where have I heard that before?  Ah Yes! “Fake but Accurate”

“Chernobyl” ominously depicts people gathered on a bridge watching the Chernobyl fire. At the end of the series, HBO claims, “it has been reported that none survived. It is now known as the “Bridge of Death.”

But the “Bridge of Death” is a sensational urban legend and there is no good evidence to support it.

“Chernobyl” is as misleading for what it leaves out. It gives the impression that all Chernobyl first responders who suffered Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) died. In reality, 80 percent of those with ARS survived.

It’s clear that even highly educated and informed viewers, including journalists, mistook much of “Chernobyl” fiction for fact.

Follow the link and read the whole article.   The whole thing is rife with one example of Chernobyl’s stunningly unscientific sensationalism after another.

Rotten Tomatoes is doing it’s bit.  A very high 95% rating by the critics, but strangely no rating listed for the audience.  And yet the final episode has been broadcast.   It’s fine, I stopped looking at or believing RT a while ago.

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