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yet another active shooter
Apr. 3rd, 2009 05:05 pm14 dead in Binghamton, NY. Active shooter at immigration services center. Joy:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Binghamton-Gunman-is-Reportedly-Laid-Off-IBMer-408098/
I get these kinds of alerts through California EDIS and (nationwide) PoliceOne. None of them are hypotheticals and I hope for the best for all of those affected.
But I notice that I only get news alerts for active shooters and for missing kids in danger ("Amber Alerts.") In other words, extremely unusual incidents.
If I look at the CHP Web site, I can see that right now in the state of California, there are four (4) confirmed serious injury accidents to which paramedics are responding as I type this. Another has wires down and persons trapped. http://cad.chp.ca.gov/ "Hot Spots"
The roads kill over 50,000 people every year. It's a river of blood despite everything we can do with driver education, safer cars, better roads, improvements in law enforcement, stronger EMS systems and hospitals, and the best efforts of MADD/SADD and other anti-drunk driving organizations.
I guess that kind of carnage just isn't news any more.
A typical freeway weekend in California takes more lives than this massacre, but do we see any public outrage? Do people avoid the roads? Call for banning cars? Demand more CHP units on the road? Support their local trauma centers? Write car manufacturers and politicians demanding safer cars with mandatory side airbags and other life-saving features?
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Binghamton-Gunman-is-Reportedly-Laid-Off-IBMer-408098/
I get these kinds of alerts through California EDIS and (nationwide) PoliceOne. None of them are hypotheticals and I hope for the best for all of those affected.
But I notice that I only get news alerts for active shooters and for missing kids in danger ("Amber Alerts.") In other words, extremely unusual incidents.
If I look at the CHP Web site, I can see that right now in the state of California, there are four (4) confirmed serious injury accidents to which paramedics are responding as I type this. Another has wires down and persons trapped. http://cad.chp.ca.gov/ "Hot Spots"
The roads kill over 50,000 people every year. It's a river of blood despite everything we can do with driver education, safer cars, better roads, improvements in law enforcement, stronger EMS systems and hospitals, and the best efforts of MADD/SADD and other anti-drunk driving organizations.
I guess that kind of carnage just isn't news any more.
A typical freeway weekend in California takes more lives than this massacre, but do we see any public outrage? Do people avoid the roads? Call for banning cars? Demand more CHP units on the road? Support their local trauma centers? Write car manufacturers and politicians demanding safer cars with mandatory side airbags and other life-saving features?
