U. Alabama Huntsville Shooting Shouldn't Have Happened
Just a few days ago, a faculty member at the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) shot three colleagues–including her department head–to death after apparently being denied a tenured position. In the wake of the tragedy, it was discovered that this woman committed fratricide in 1986, but the killing was subsequently ruled an accident and the records seem to have vanished. In the midst of this tragedy, what is the Brady Campaign’s focus? Preventing citizens from lawfully carrying weapons into a California Starbucks.
In addition to conveniently ignoring this tragedy, the Brady Campaign has failed to acknowledge the UAH gun control policies. The University, like many others in our nation, has embraced the Brady Campaign’s “ultimate solution.” The university had a total ban on weapons, even though such a ban is not mandated by Alabama law. Page 89 of the UAH Staff Handbook reads:
Firearms or other weapons (including explosives) are not to be kept or brought onto University property by anyone, whether holding a firearms license or not, except police officers and other law enforcement officials in the exercise of their lawful duties.
If we are to believe the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership, this is an ideal policy geared towards keeping the campus safe. This policy will prevent people from using weapons to commit crimes on campus because it’s against the rules, and offenders and their dangerous sidearms can be removed from the premises. There’s only one problem, three UAH biology professors are dead and several others were injured. The Brady Campaign’s policy has failed again, and yet there is little or no discussion of the simple fact that “gun-free zones” have never stopped gun crime, and never will.
I don’t want to minimize the tragedy facing the families of the deceased, but the other members of the UAH community should be thankful this professor didn’t let her anger spill outside the department. There would have been no one to stop her. This is the cost of our collective devotion to failed policies. Until our lawmakers acknowledge the truth about defense-free zones and recognize that a policy reversal does not necessarily represent a condemnation of the good intentions of the original policymakers, multiple homicides in “gun-free” zones will continue with equally tragic results.
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THE ORIGINAL STORY Published: August 24, 2009 / Richmond Times Dispatch Long time Anti-Gun Advocate State Senator R.C. Soles, 74, shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor City, N.C. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for the politician’s home county said. The victim, Kyle Blackburn, was taken to a South Carolina hospital, but the injuries were not reported to be life-threatening, according to Rex Gore, district attorney for Columbus, Bladen and Brunswick counties. The State Bureau of Investigation and Columbus County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the shooting , Gore said. Soles, who was not arrested , declined to discuss the incident
Sunday evening. “I am not in a position to talk to you,” Soles said by telephone. “I’m right in the middle of an investigation .” The Senator, who has made a career of being against gun ownership for the general public, didn’t hesitate to defend himself with his own gun when he believed he was in immediate danger and he was the victim. In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, the “Do As I Say And Not As I Do” Anti-Gun Activist
Lawmaker picked up his gun and took action in what apparently was a self-defense shooting. Why hypocritical, you may ask? It is because his long legislative record shows that the actions that he took to protect his family , his own response to a dangerous life-threatening situation, are actions that he feels ordinary citizens should not have if they were faced with an identical situation. It has prompted some to ask if the Senator believes his life and personal safety is more valuable than yours or mine. But this is to be expected from those who believe they can run our lives, raise our kids , and protect our families better than we can.
My wife had a psychotic mental break in the payroll office of the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa in 2002. I warned the University System that they had ignored a simple problem capable of causing mental breaks for students and faculty.
Subliminal Distraction is a normal feature in everyone's physiology of sight. In the 1960's designers and engineers accidentally discovered it could, under very special circumstances,cause mental breaks. The office cubicle was the answer by 1968.
Connie, my wife, had a break thirty days after her office was changed eliminating Cubicle Level Protection.
The superficial facts in this case point to a Subliminal Distraction exposure incident.
The history of the teacher's strange behavior might mean she is a high functioning schizophrenic.
Good insight. Would you happen to have any links to resources or medical blogs regarding this topic? I'd like to research it a bit myself.
No there is only one site in the world about it, mine. I have 65 megabytes of information which include links to sites where I got data and cases. Read the "Site Summary" linked on the HOME page, VisionAndPsychosis.Net.
The basics of Subliminal Distraction are explained in first semester psychology under the physiology of sight, (Acoustic SD is also possible and has been studied as a fatiguing factor in offices.)
Only visual SD can cause the mental events because of the way your brain detects threat movement and the path of the signal through the brain.
The Design problem takes the same name as this normal feature of physiology. A design student in Australia said it is not in books but communicated only in lectures.
When I posted questions on-line I was accused of being an attorney trying to get information for a lawsuit . That exchange is linked on the HOME page. (Google Subliminal Distraction if the URL is removed.)
You can phone a designer working for any major office furniture manufacturer and ask them to explain Cubicle Level Protection.
Occasionally there is a job offered for someone with 'Systems Furniture' training. Cubicles are a subset of Systems Furniture.
There is a similar problem at Virginia Tech. I wrote and warned them after the Cho shooting . Since then there has been a suicide , a beheading murder , and a VTech Metallica fan disappeared from a concert then was found dead in an almost impossible to reach location, Morgan Harrington. (Fugue episode)
More and more we are seeing mass-shootings happening to defenseless victims in gun free zones. It makes me wonder if this is not the real purpose of gun-free zones: they seem to foster such tragedies.
Seems as though the only places that mass-shootings occur are in these " safe " gun-free zones. When will people get over their fear of firearms and "allow" people to realize their right to protect themselves?
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.