Finally, A University Police Chief Gets it

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“We have no motive and I have no way of knowing what the motive was,� University Police Chief Donald Grady said.
At one time I was very against arming teachers or allowing qualified students to carry on campus. I’m not any more. These maniacs go to those schools KNOWING that their’s will be the only gun there - until police arrive. And that can take minutes.

http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/209747.asp

[frankie_the_yankee]

“We have no motive and I have no way of knowing what the motive was,� University Police Chief Donald Grady said.
At one time I was very against arming teachers or allowing qualified students to carry on campus. I’m not any more. These maniacs go to those schools KNOWING that their’s will be the only gun there - until police arrive. And that can take minutes.

http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/209747.asp

I think the highlighted part of the statement above came from the blogger, not the police chief. The chief's words are just what is enclosed in quotes.

Too bad.

But at least the blogger gets it.

[testersbc]

read the article. the quote is in there from the leo!

[DoubleJ]

“We have no motive and I have no way of knowing what the motive was,� University Police Chief Donald Grady said.
At one time I was very against arming teachers or allowing qualified students to carry on campus. I’m not any more. These maniacs go to those schools KNOWING that their’s will be the only gun there - until police arrive. And that can take minutes.

http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/209747.asp

I think the highlighted part of the statement above came from the blogger, not the police chief. The chief's words are just what is enclosed in quotes.

Too bad.

But at least the blogger gets it.

[frankie_the_yankee]

read the article. the quote is in there from the leo!

I read the article. Here it is.

Feb 15 2008 12:00AM
http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php
One gun, one person trained how to use it and willing to do so could have stopped most of this:

DEKALB, Ill. - Another person shot when a gunman opened fire at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University has died, bringing the toll to seven, including the gunman, a coroner said Friday.

Investigators and school officials did not immediately know why the man indiscriminately fired into the crowd with a shotgun and two handguns Thursday, wounding 15 people and sending panicked students fleeing for the exits before killing himself.

“We have no motive and I have no way of knowing what the motive was,� University Police Chief Donald Grady said.

At one time I was very against arming teachers or allowing qualified students to carry on campus. I’m not any more. These maniacs go to those schools KNOWING that their’s will be the only gun there - until police arrive. And that can take minutes.

If you know anything about guns, or ever fire on a range, take any semi-automatic pistol with, say, two extra loaded magazines, and see how long it will take you to fire every single round in those magazines. It doesn’t take but a few seconds. Then imagine firing into a crowded room filled with unarmed people.

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

This one, like some others before him, even stopped to reload. One gun. That’s all it would have taken. But that campus, like all the others, is a “gun free zone�.

To everyone except the killer.

Look at where the quotes begin and end. (Highlighted section.) That's what the chief was quoted as saying. The statement immediately following ("At one time I was very against arming teachers or allowing qualified students to carry on campus. I’m not any more..........") is not enclosed in quotes, nor is it attributed to anyone.

Those are the words of the blogger.

[flintknapper]

read the article. the quote is in there from the leo!

Nope,

This is the quote from the University Police Chief:

“We have no motive and I have no way of knowing what the motive was,� University Police Chief Donald Grady said.

Everything outside of the quotation marks is assumed to be the thoughts of the blogger.

[Turfspanker]

Blog or not, at least it made the Drudge Report today and includes the bloggers comments.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Scroll down to the article about "Gun Free Zone".

Unfortunately the article will probably go down in a day or two but at least it will be read by several million people.