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Gunn and Done

David Warren Gunn

It was a rough week or ormer Canyon MiddleSchool band director David Gunn. First he got

arrested or one count o improper relationship

between an educator and a student, two

counts o online solicitation o a minor, and

two counts o sexual perormance by a child.

Then he lost his job at The Scooter Store.

Gunn, who was employed at Canyon

Middle rom 1996 to 2010, is, according to

the Express-News, also the subject o two open

investigations by New Braunels Police. As o

press time, no charges have been led in either

o those cases, at least one o which involves

inappropriate electronic communication.

First up on social media were the

deenders, who quite clearly believe that a

person who is both nice and competent is

incapable o committing a crime.

Just as illogical, but most denitely

more disturbing, were those ready to call or

castration, beheading, burning at the stake

and other such un-American punishments o a

so ar not-proven-guilty man.

Then a combination o the two came

orward. And thats when things got interesting.

Our Facebook page was visited by two

extremely stylish, well-groomed young men,

who made their devotion to Gunn clear with

statements such as these directed at those whoexpressed any concern regarding Gunns

character (NOTE We have edited some

of the more vulgar words down to symbols

and a few letters, but if salty and/or hateful

language directed at Christians or masculine

women offends you, it would be best if you just

skipped the next paragraph.):

If we are going to judge quickly, Im

just going to assume you are one of thefour lesbians in your picture. Or you were

too dumb to get into the real A&M. And

I will defend the man regardless

of the outcome. And Oh I

had no idea you were an

authority on all the details of

what transpired. Shut your

negative hypocritical christian

###hole mouth. You hateful

people are what turn good people

to temptation. EVERYONE needs to stay

out of others business. Focus more on your

f##ked up life for once instead of getting

pleasure out of others publicized personal

life. AND I hope your whole family gets

cancer and you live so you have to watch

everyone die. :) Have a nice day c##t :)

Yeah, they brought out the big guns, and

that got our attention. These two, young

t smooth well-coied twenty-somethings

made it clear that they not only knew Gunn,

they had a great deal o anger ready to be

unleashed at anyone who criticized him.

Thats usually a sign o something. Well letyou gure it out.

We also got this message rom another

ormer student, which caused us to wonder i

there had been cases like this led in the past

(emphasis ours): Its too bad chase Cochran

that the case is already closed and done with

so you can quit trying to start s##t idiot, and

He made a mistake, and is learning rom it.

We reminded this young man that the arresthad just been made hours earlier, and that

posting bail does not constitute a closure o

a case. He came back with Knowing him

personally and hearing it rom him and not

the media does.

So ar, the Comal ISD has told us that

there are no records o investigations in

Gunns le with the district. Were still waiting

to hear rom his prior district, the Mission ISD,because, as they told KENS-5, they couldnt

discuss his history because his le was in

storage. In a closet, no doubt.

Well keep you posted as this case

continues. And keep in mind, yall, that this

is still America, and Mr Gunn should not be

considered guilty unless proven so in a court

o law. And also that nice is dierent than

good. #sondheim

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Mr Tojo FlyinI am writing this letter to the only

news organization in the area that is

independent and not a mouthpiece

for our elected ofcials.

I attended the 9/11 tribute at the

Canyon Lake Dam that was put on bythe Canyon Lake Republican Women,

on 9/11/2013. I am a veteran of the

USMC where I put 21 years into the

defense of this country. I was deeply

upset when I saw a Japanese Zero

performing a y over our dam during

the ceremony. I couldnt believe the

ignorance of using an enemy aircraft

in a tribute to our troops and country.

I thought about this and wondered

why they didnt use a restored Naziaircraft. There really is no difference.

The Zero is a cool restored aircraft

that is ideal for air shows. Not for

tributes the likes of which was going

on at the dam that day. The Zero was

also used as the key aircraft in the

missing man formation on the last

y over. I wondered how all the WW2

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Another disturbing thing to me

was the sheer ignorance of peoplewhen I talked about it. Many folks just

did not understand the signicance of

what had occurred. I have contacted

the Canyon Lake Republican Women

about my concerns and I am awaiting

their reply.

I its any consolation, we hear they sell

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The Kayak MenaceThanks for getting off of Tim Zipp

last week, after all, he is just feeding

from the hand of our local politicians.

The issue is not his morals, the issue

is the elected ofcials who sat idly by

while he milked the taxpayers of the

city. This whole incident could have

been prevented if council would havehad the guts to stop it.The Comal

Estates issue is much more interesting

to me. Please note that the same thing

that the Comal Estates does is also

done by the Schlitterbahn.

I sh, not good at it but I like to

wet the line every now and then.

I once found myself at the head

waters of the Comal, across from the

Heilderburg along what is the old

NBU utility area. I access the waterfrom the low water crossing there,

never stepping on private land. I have

been told numerous times that I am

trespassing, once by a teenage girl in

a kayak, I wonder who she learned

these laws from (great parenting).

The Schlitterbahn takes it a notch

further in my opinion though and

actually blocks the original channelof the Comal. I enter this stretch from

the low water crossing on Elizabeth

St. (adjacent the golf course).

Neither me nor my kayak ever touch

Schlitterbahn property. As you curve

your way down the Comal, you hit an

area that the Schlitterbahn has roped

off, claiming a state waterway as their

private pool. Schlitterbahn has every

right to use the river, but so do I.

My shing trip is normallyinterrupted with a Schlitterbahn

security guard threatening to call the

police. Based on the time of day and

my success, I normally just paddle

away, a few times I have said OK, call,

but they have never followed through.

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blockade on the Estates. Attention

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In Texas, the land under

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public access.

Various state agencies have

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a result, when new riverbed usage

issues arise, the Legislature must

address them directly. When deeds

show private ownership of the beds of

navigable streams, some believe that

public use of these areas (whether by

motor vehicle or some other means) is

trespassing.A 1920s law called theSmall Bill, however, made clearthat the public may legally accessnavigable streams regardless of avalid deed to the riverbeds surface.

A 1956 Attorney General Opinion

established that the publics right

to use Small Bill streams persists

even when the stream is dry. Public

access to rivers is legally protected,

and physical entry is easy in many

parts of Texas. Indeed, it is acriminal offense to obstruct theintersection of a public road anda navigable waterway. (Editors Note:Emphasis ours.)

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The Church o Scientology sent at least a dozen

lawyers to New Braunels last week to conront

issues related to a lawsuit brought against theChurch by a Comal County woman.

Monique Rathbun is suing various entities

o the Church, accusing them o harassment.

On Sept. 12 and 13, Rathbun was seeking

to turn a temporary restraining order into a

temporary injunction.

In a busy two days or Judge Dib Waldrip,

the Church o Scientology International (CSI)

led a motion to have Rathbuns attorney,

Ray Jerey, disqualied. The Church saidthat Monique Rathbuns husband, Mark

Marty Rathbun, related sensitive and private

inormation in an adavit that violated attorney-

client privilege. At issue was Marty Rathbuns

statements concerning the Churchs attempts

to nd a Texas attorney to ght a 1990s-era

lawsuit brought by the amily o Lisa McPherson,

a woman who died in 1995 while under the

care o the Church. Marty Rathbun, who was

once second in command o the church beorehe let in 2004, is not an attorney.

For their part, the Religious Technology

Center (RTC) and church leader David

Miscavige, represented by San Antonio

attorney Lamont Jeerson, sought a Special

Appearance beore the court, questioning the

courts jurisdiction over them.

DAY 1

On Thursday, the court began hearing MoniqueRathbuns case or a temporary injunction.

In his opening statement, Jerey insisted

that any actions taken by the Church against

Rathbun was at the direct behest o Miscavige,

which, he said, he intends to prove. Miscavige,

as chairman o the RTC, maintains that he is

an ecclesiastic leader that only dictates the

Churchs orthodoxy and doesnt actually run

the Church. Jerey denies that claim.

Jerey stated that the case is not aboutreligion, but about a powerul organization

being made to behave lawully in a civil society.

In his opening statement, Jeerson

countered those statements, saying that

what the plainti and Jerey really want is

to depose Miscavige to gain leverage or

their lawsuit, which would violate the First

Amendment religious rights o the Church.

The San Antonio attorney said that Miscavige

has an ecclesiastic exemption that prohibitscivil courts or interering in the ecclesiastical

government o a church.

At center are the actions o the Squirrel

Busters. A Squirrel is the name given to

someone who practices Scientology outsidethe Church. The Church o Scientology

maintains that such practices are violations o

copyright, patent and trademark laws. Marty

Rathbun continued to practice Scientology

ater he let the Church.

Ater opening statements, Monique

Rathbun took the stand. Under questioning

by Jerey, she related anecdotes, backed by

video, o what she says was a long period o

omnipresent harassment and surveillanceby the Squirrel Busters. She spoke o how the

harassment orced the couple to move rom their

home in Ingleside on the Bay to Comal County.

Monique Rathbuns testimony was

peppered throughout with objections by CSI

attorney Les Strieber, some o which were

sustained and others overruled by Judge

Waldrip. At one point, when Rathbun said

she Googled her name, Strieber objected on

the grounds that Google is hearsay. Theobjection was overruled.

The most poignant moments came when

Rathbun related how she was sent a sex toy at

work, and when a emale coworker was sent

fowers with a note in Monique Rathbuns name.

I was mortied, Rathbun said in tears. How do

you explain something like that to your coworkers

and peers? When asked what she would ask o

judge, Rathbun said just make it stop.

Rathbun said the nal straw came whenshe ound cameras on trees pointing at her

Comal County house rom adjoining property.

Under cross examination by Strieber,

Rathbun said that her husband did practice

Scientology and is publicly critical o the

Church and Miscavige. She also stated that

she was never physically threatened by the

Squirrel Busters. She then denied Striebers

contention when asked i she was picking a

ght with the Church o Scientology?

DAY II, PART 1

On Friday, George Spencer, another

attorney or CSI, made his case or Jereys

disqualication. Spencer called Marty

Rathbuns adavit a desperate attempt to

go ater Miscavige. In their zeal to go ater

this one man, Spencer said, they went way

over an ethical line.

Jerey retorted that the attempt to havehim disqualied was garbage. He then led

a motion to sanction the Churchs lawyers or

using dilatory tactics. Jerey said that the

contentious inormation in Marty Rathbuns

adavit is already in the public domainin books and on the Internet. The attorney

noted that Rathbuns adavit was to counter

Miscaviges claims, under oath, that had never

contracted business in Texas.

Spencer pressed his claim that while

Marty Rathbuns inormation was alse, it

was privileged and condential, prompting

Waldrip to ask how is something alse

privileged? The attorney responded that i

he had to prove the alseness o Rathbunsaccusations, he himsel would then betray the

condence o his client.

Spencer then pointed out that Rathbun, as

president o the RTC, was intimately involved

in CSIs legal matters, causing Waldrip to

ask i the RTC and CSI are the same entity, to

which attorneys or both groups denied.

Waldrip has yet to rule on the

disqualication motion.

DAY II, PART 2

Elliott Cappuccio, another attorney or

Monique Rathbun, took up the issue o

jurisdiction, arguing that Monique Rathbun is

entitled to depose Miscavige to counter what

he says are alse claims the church leader

made in his Special Appearance ling.

Streiber argued that the Squirrel Busters

were not sent by the Church, but were believers

trying to protect the Churchs orthodoxy andtrademarks by reely expressing their First

Amendment rights. He admitted that CSI

hired private investigators, but only to make

sure that the Churchs patents and trademarks

were protected.

In an attempt to explain the Churchs

organizational structure, Strieber and Jeerson

pointed out that RTC controls the trademarks

while CSI runs the administrative unctions o

the Church. In response, Waldrip asked, Thenits (CSI) not a church? The judge then tried to

get clarication how CSI is the business end,

but someone else owns the copyrights, saying

that it seemed the organization that owns the

trademarks controls the business.

Jeerson explained that such practice is

common among corporations.

Waldrip then set Oct. 18 as the date to

continue the temporary injunction hearing and

arguments concerning jurisdiction.

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Uncle Esel,What is the deal with all the extra

Money that the City suddenly needs?A majority o the property values haveincreased over 5% this year whichmeans extra taxes to be collected bythe City rom everyone, as property

increases are also eecting those over65 years o age who have a fxed tax rate.So the City will now collect taxes on thatextra 5% o real estate value that hassuddenly appeared in our air City.

It is also reported that sales taxrevenues or the City have done nothingbut rise since the start o the year, goingup 22% in January, another 22% inFebruary, 14% in March, 9.3% inApril, 8.6% in May, 9.4% in June, andnow 14.8% in July. In July alone the city

has collected $117,000.00 more thanwhat was collected over the same periodlast year. In total, or the year so ar, thecity has collected 18.3-million dollars,which is an increase o about 12.7% overthis same time last year.

Now we have just had a 6.6% taxincrease or our home valuations with anew tax rate o 49.82c.

I was looking at my 2% pay raisebeore taxes that I was generously givenby my employer this past year and

wondering i anybody else was thinkingsame thing I am? Te recession in myhousehold has just begun!

Oh and then there was the bondelection which was conveniently votedinto place beore the notice o increasein property values and the tax increaserate that ollowed!

Oh and the rumor o the river tax ortubers or is it a park entry tax that theriver ad-hoc committee is once againtasked to consider? More money or

the city. With all this extra $$$ over lastyear and extra $$$ going orward, are wegoing to see lots o new stu in town orthe City and its residents?

Paul

Dear Paul.That certainly seemed like a long email with

a lot o numbers in it until I took out all the spacesand realized what you are asking is, what theheck is City Hall going to give us with all the

money they are siphoning rom the people?Yep, tax values are increasing and thesales tax rebate is also coming in with hugeincreases, but the city leaders are like crackaddicts, only they need a x o legacy projects.

You see this air city has people whoeel they must measure themselves by someconnection to some old dead person and theiraccomplishments. You hear it all the time, orexample councilman Digges who was somewhatconused about which old amily member hadbuilt the old decrepit underpass on Seguin Street

and a presented a eeble argument to keep it asit was. Then we have some o them who want totie their legacy to an overblown Fisher Park and

the mayor has her eld o benches on Walnut.Build it and they will come.

O course many plans dont work outand the Mayors ailed legacy also include theutter asco o the MPO (metropolitan planningorganization) that was bungled by her and hermain man Michael Morrison beore he wasnally sent packing.

So this is where the money keeps goinginstead o roads and that hunger is ed withyour hard earned money. Consider it luckythat you dont work or the city as most othose employees are oregoing another raisethis year and being told that the vehicles andthe computers they use will have to last a littlelonger now by Interim City Manger Camareno.

Yep, dont be surprised when you nd moreees, including ees to cover the costs that were

supposed to decrease ater the Krueger canban, and yet another outside attorney hired tosue the Texas Attorney General. Hey Paul, howabout chipping in to pay or that Natatorium?Uncle Esel has never even been to one.

Love, K

Uncle Esel,Why in the world is Buc-ees

building more gas pumps? Every timeI drive by, there are bunches o emptyones. Whats up there?

Tanks, Punkin

Dear Punkin,We can only wonder why. Perhaps they

want the title o most pumps at a gas station.Perhaps they have some complex about havingmore toilets (84) than gas pumps. FounderBeaver Alpin has lamented to the press thatit is dicult to run the numbers in a store likethe one here and in the world o convenience

stores and retail, they measure the prot insales per square oot, and with the size, youcan bet a potential shareholder would avoidany uture IPO or this privately held chain.

Uncle Esel couldnt help but notice that theHouston owned Herald-Zietung went there toget answers about the pumps recently and gotonly a vague I dont know much rom somerandom employee who they quoted by namein the paper. That random employee; DonWasek, the other owner o the entire chain.

Seems the HZ reporters have never heard oGoogle and didnt even realize they were gettingshort answers rom the big man himsel. Nicejob. Ill also say, its a good thing they didnt hirethe same contractor the city has or Walnut.

Love, K

Uncle K. Esel is a lietime resident o our air city, and iswell known or his sage advice on a wide range o topics.I you fnd yoursel perplexed with no one to turn to,send your question to Uncle Esel at: [email protected]. Be sure to write Question or Uncle Esel in thesubject line o your email.

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Dear Mexican: Can I Ask a

Mexican why El ri sucks so much?

And why a little stadium in Columbus,

Ohio was louder and more passionate

than Estadio Azteca in Mexico City,

which seats over 100,000? Can I alsoask why a country that lives and

breathes soccer/tbol always reaks

out in Crew Stadium against my beloved

U.S.? HAHAHAHAHAHA I want to hear

this one. Oh, and please dont give me

an economic reason, because El ri

gets treated better in Mexico than any

organization in that country.

Member o Uncle Chavas Army

Dear Wab: Youre not going to get any

apologias rom me on this one. Ive long

maintained that the current squad or El

Tri is overrated and ull o themselves, that

Chicharito isnt the second coming o Hugo

Sanchez or even Cuauhtemoc Blanco but

just an overrated resa, and that their since-

deposed coach Jose Manuel Chepo de

la Torre was a disaster (quick aside: did

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whether Chepo had harmed Mexico more

than notorious narco lord Joaqun El Chapo

Guzmn? God bless our gallows humor!).

I do nd it unny that the United States can

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games in podunk towns, that U.S. Soccer rarelystages matches anymore in major cities lest its

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since 1990, then Im or it.

Oh, and youre mistaken that El Tri is

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Oye mi amor: Im not a big musiclistener, but why do rockeros HAE

Man and call them sellouts and clichd?

Tey fll arenas around the world, are

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Isnt music supposed to be enjoyed?

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and then he lost his job atThe Scooter Store.Despite their constant insistence that they weremerely downsizing and moving to smallerquarters, The Scooter Store went ahead andred just about everybody last week. On aFriday. Like last time. Unlike last time, however,

they let the rank-and-le go as an auction omuch o their oce equipment was underway.

So to recap: The Scooter Store scheduledan auction o its computers, desks, chairs andsno-cone machines, insisted they were stayingopen, got their employees do whatever prepwas necessary or the auction, and then wentout o business.

Yes, I know there are many readers who willsay that upper-management had no idea they

were going out o business until Friday to themI can only oer sympathy or their complete lacko connection to reality. Im a little envious too.

Doug Dollars were not accepted at theauction.

In Other NewsThe man who was 4-B President at the time4-B handed over millions o taxpayer dollarsto The Scooter Store attempted to distance

himsel and his ellow Board members rom theasco by blaming the general public or it.

John Malik, in a post to the Houston-owned Herald-Zeitung website, oered thisexplanation. This is great (emphasis ours):

The closing comment about the moneythe city stands to lose rom The Scooter Storewas that the city should use utmost cautionwhen oering incentives in the uture. Iwas president o the 4B Board when those

incentives were given, and its unair to just laythis at the eet o city hall and the volunteers oncity council and the 4B Board.

I you go back to when those incentiveswere given, Scooter Store management elt asentitled to a share o city incentive unds asit did to pay well-above-average wages andget rich o products paid or mostly by ourederal tax dollars. Ofcials made it known

that theyd move the business out o town i

they got a better oer somewhere else.There was broad support in the community

to do whatever it took to keep them here.

I wouldnt be surprised i there were a eweditorials rom the Herald-Zeitung saying just that.

As uncomortable as at least some o uson the board were with the deal, doing nothingwasnt an option so we did the next best thing.We dedicated the money to assets that wouldremain in the city. The incentive money, as Irecall, was used to upgrade reliability o the

power supply at Independence Drive and tohelp convert a long-vacant grocery store intocommercial ofce space at Comal Plaza.

what he said years earlier, when the moneychanged hands. Which was this:

The eeling o the board is that theyre a

very valuable employer in the community, andwe want to work with them to nd a way tokeep those jobs in town.

So was it the Board or the public that wasbehind the deal? Its so hard to keep what

these guys say straight.Hey, I know whatd be un. Lets have a

look at what that money was actually spent on.That stu he described as assets that wouldremain in the city:

$350,000 or utility upgrades$1.25 million to retrot oce space$2.25 million to train employees

Johnny, training is not an asset tha

remains in the City. It just isnt. These guys

werent even clear on what they were doingwhen they did it. Madness.Hey, remember the airport, and how we

said 4-B money wasnt supposed to be used orthat? Mr Malik expressed his own reservationsabout that in an interview with the HZ shortlyater Silver State Helicopters let NB holdingthe bag (emphasis ours):

Its really on the borderline o what weshould doing, said Malik, who was on the4B Board in 2005 when it voted to pay $1.5million to build the tower in 2005 as part oan incentive deal with Silver State. The 4BBoard unded building that tower. I thinktheres a level o responsibility. ... I we canhelp bridge the city thats ne, but I think thecity sta understands that we dont want tobecome their unding source o last resort on awhole bunch o dierent projects.

Huh. Thats odd. Well, Im sure none othis is anything we should be concerned with.

In Other, Other NewsOh, hey, remember how we said that Tim Zippprobably resigned rom 4-B because o pendinglegal issues and not because he moved to theETJ, as he and Scooter Store ounder DougHarrison insisted? Yeaaaah, about that

Last Sundays Express-News reported thatTim, personally, is under investigation by theUnited States Department o Justice or various

antics. Scooter Store lawyer Michael Clark isbeing investigated too. As o press time, thishasnt been reported locally. How the Herald-Zeitung and KGNB could ignore have missedthat, well never know. #shills

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Makes 8 to 10 servings 2cupscornmeal 1tablespoonsalt 1teaspoonbakingsoda 6eggs,beaten 2cupsmincedonion 1(4-ounce)candicedjalapenos,drained,minced 16ouncessharpcheddarcheese,shredded 2/3cupvegetableoil 2cupscream-stylecorn 2cupscrawshtails,chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With a wooden spoon or spatula, combine corn meal,salt and soda in a large mixing bowl. To the beaten eggs in another bowl, add onion, nelychopped jalapenos, cheese, oil, corn and crawsh.

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Shootout at the Not Again CorralI generally like to come home ater work and

sit down to a little news. I divide my attention

between that and some internet surng while

I sit on the couch being pestered by my dog.

This works pretty well or me and allows me to

keep up with important events until some nut

decides to go on a shooting spree.

Suddenly, my television is inundated with

breathless local reporters providing the latest

lack o breaking news. Gunshots! Police!

People running everywhere!

I fip rom channel to channel while

otherwise proessional journalists speculate

wildly in an attempt to get the latest inormation

out rst. It seems that the moment someone

mentions an unsubstantiated tidbit, everyone

else picks it up. This continues until it becomes

clear that the inormation is bunk, at which

point correcting the misinormation becomes

the latest non-news.The inevitable political ambulance chasers

rush or the cameras and the microphones. The

gun-grabbers bemoan our culture o violence

that could be curbed i only the NRA would

stop deending that pesky Second Amendment.

Equally gooy pundits rom the other side use

the shooting as an example o the ailure o

gun control. Sound bites and slogans trump

common sense and reasoning ability or thenext several hours.

As soon as the food o survivors comes

pouring out o the scene, they are descended

upon by the media throng. Normal people

feeing or their lives have bright lights

shined in their eyes and microphones stued

in their aces.

How did it eel to be shot at by a

crazed gunman?Kinda scary, Jim.

These questions are ludicrous, o course,

but theyre more useul than when these same

people are asked or their eyewitness accounts.

The accounts make or good TV but are

o little use rom an inormation perspective.

None o this is surprising, o course. Just a ew

short minutes ago, these people were scared

witless, running and weaving in an active

attempt to elude death as it rained down on

them. Are these really the type o people you

would expect to be able to give you a careul

and detailed account o the events as they

unolded? Add to this the act that reportersare actively looking or people who make or

good TV. Such people are almost always either

hopelessly vacuous (but they have nice teeth)

or horrendous blowhards (more interested in

sel-promotion than even sel-preservation).

Interviews o these olks continue until the

reporters nd someone who will do sound

eects willing to go on the record, theyre

everyones avorites.By this time, the actual shooting has

been over or hours and the shooter is rapidly

assuming room temperature. Even so, the

police continue to search or accomplices.

(Theyre operating on the same aulty

eyewitness accounts as the reporters are.) The

death toll rises, alls and rises again beore

nally settling on some relatively undisputed

gure. You can always expect the nal number

to vary by one depending on whether the

shooter is counted among the dead.

The injured are rushed to the hospital

and treated. The lucky ones die. The rest

can look orward to being made into the

latest expose by the nightly news rom their

hospital bed (Nurse can you move the tubes

into the rame a little more?), co-opted into

the latest anti-gun activist group, or chased

by lawyers wanting to sue anyone with morethan $50 in their wallet.

At some point the name o the shooter will

be released, and people around the country

with the same or similar sounding names

brace to be smeared. This never lasts too long,

but you can be sure your mother-in-law will

never orget, vindicated in her belie that you

have always been some sort o degenerate.

Researchers jam the internet with trac lookingor relevant Facebook and Twitter posts, and

keyboards smoke as keyword searches on

Google and LexisNexis are entered rom

newsrooms around the country. I the person

is even remotely swarthy, the question o

terrorism has already been raised.

The shooters lie is examined in detail.

His (Its almost always a him) riends and

amily are interviewed. Everyone he knows is

shocked. He was always so quiet. We nd

out he has pick one or more of the following:

a troubled past, a history o mental illness,

a criminal record o astounding length, an

extreme ideological viewpoint. All o thisbrings us right back to the gun control issue.

Someone nally nds a picture o the

shooter and it plays in split screen or the rest

o the night. The picture chosen is either an

old mugshot where the shooter looks drug-

addled and mentally unstable, or a middle

school graduation photo that makes you have

second thoughts about the neighbor kid who

teases your dog.Through it all, the rest o the news is

shoved into a box in some backroom lled with

unused and mismatched cables and assorted

light bulbs. On the upside, this means that

the nights human-interest stories have been

spiked. I have narrowly avoided the latest

ugly baby animal story rom the zoo or the

grandmother who quilts or peace in troubled

upper Latvia. But, the rest o the news has beenblacked out as well.

I have visions o the White House

launching missile strikes or creating a

document dump o immense proportions

that no one will ever see. Should an enemy

ever plan a D-Day type invasion on the U.S.,

a shooting would make excellent cover; we

could be speaking a new language beore the

news recognizes that anything is even goingon. (Is that a tank I see in the background?)

Tonight was one o these nights. A shooter

in the D.C. Navy Yard managed to shoot 12

beore being shot himsel. The rest is almost

certainly o little importance. An angry man

(with cause, or or no reason at all) managed

to end the lives o 12 completely innocent

people today, and shatter the lives o countless

others. In doing so, he gained more than hisallotted 15 minutes o ame, having achieved

a level o notoriety in death that he had no

hope o achieving in lie.

At least this one time, I have decided not

to play into the game. As ar as Im concerned,

this shooter can remain nameless and aceless,

maybe Ill see whats on the DVR.

You can read more rom Kelly Colby at yourfrstshrug.blogspot.com.

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