Opinion: Takeaways from
things I saw on August 27

Yesterday was a bad day, to put it mildly. The attack on the Catholic school kids during prayer in Minneapolis was gut wrenching. An act of evil for evils sake. The perpetrator was as monstrous as he was cowardly.

Afterwards, a parade of people trying to provide commentary made things worse, only to be outdone spectacularly by the usual idiotic anti-gun politicians.

I have a few observations I wanted to share:

• 1.  To my understanding, there was no one guarding these children.
• 2.  The attacker appears to have preplanned his actions with some degree of detail and preparation including surveillance of the premises.
• 3.  The actual attack went on for about 2 minutes, starting just before 8.30am.
• 4.  The first 911 calls are at 8.27 AM. It took police a couple of minutes to arrive by which time the attacker had already ended himself.
• 5.  The media in the absence of actual information will say pretty much anything.
• 6.  At least 2 tough on crime, supposedly pro 2A conservative media figures, had an on-the-spot appeal for gun control.
• 7.  A number of others asked to comment pointed out #1 and said there are plenty of people including retired LEO's who are well trained that could guard such sites.
• 8.  Anti gun politicians quite literally called for gun control before the living and the dead could even be accounted for.
• 9.  The attacker appears to have had an intense, lethal hatred towards Jews as well.

The truths here are self-evident. …