Comments by "Darlene" (@darlene2709) on "'I can't answer that': GOP lawmaker pressed on US gun policy" video.

  1. "One of the victims in the FedEx shooting in Indiana may have tried to thwart the gunman — pulling out his own gun in vain before being shot dead late Thursday. Levi Miller, who works at the plant in Plainfield just outside Indianapolis, was on break when he heard the quick succession of gunshots in the parking lot. “My friend at the time witnessed a man who was not part of the incident but also pulled out a gun from his truck to try and engage the shooter and he died because of it,” Miller said Friday morning on NBC’s “Today” show."
    39
  2.  @nattie5330  Can you imagine what the result of arming teachers would be? That was the suggestion after the Parkland shooting.
    9
  3.  @nattie5330  That might be a side effect. However, you may have some very nervous kindergarten students as a result.
    1
  4.  @nattie5330  No worries! I got the sarcasm. I was also being sarcastic. Obviously, sarcastic comments don't always translate in print.
    1
  5.  Teutonic Nordwind  That is only on NCIS. In real life it generally does not work that way. "A girl who jumped out of a closet and shouted, "Boo!" when her parents came home in the middle of the night was shot and killed by her own father. Fourteen-year-old Matilda Kaye Crabtree's last words to her father were "I love you, Daddy." No charges were brought against her father, 53-year-old Robert Crabtree. The Ouachita Parish Chief Deputy, Richard Fewell, said the case would be turned over to the District Attorney as a matter of routine. "It's sad," Mr. Fewell said. "This is something every kid has done. I don't know how the father is going to live with it." Matilda and a friend, whose identity was not disclosed, were supposed to be spending Saturday night at the friend's home but had decided to go to the Crabtrees' while Matilda's parents were away, Mr. Fewell said. When Matilda heard her parents drive up around 1 A.M. Sunday, she and her friend came up with a practical joke: They hid in her bedroom closet and made noises to make her parents think someone had broken in, Mr. Fewell said. Mr. Crabtree got his gun, and when Matilda jumped out, her startled father pointed a .357-caliber pistol loaded with hollow-point bullets and shot his daughter in the neck, the chief deputy said. She died at a hospital 12 hours later. Her friend was not hurt. Mr. Fewell said it shows how scared people are in their own homes these days." New York Times November 1994
    1