GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS: FBI Reveals How Many Active Shooters Were Stopped by Citizens.

IT’S A MYSTERY: Durham Trial Drawing to Close Without Hillary’s Lawyer Testifying Why He Gave FBI Trump Russia Disinfo.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Homeless encampment across from Denver school draws concern.

A Denver Public Schools parent has concerns about his child’s safety after a homeless encampment popped up directly across the street from his kid’s school.

Kieran Schweidel records his walk to his kid’s school and said he sees multiple encampments on the way.

He said his concern is the proximity of a handful of tents near Polaris Elementary School.

“I’m not looking to fix the city at large. I don’t think it’s fixable. Just around the school. Please, can we keep that safe? If children aren’t sacred, I don’t know what should be,” Schweidel said.

Meanwhile, Michael Shellenberger’s longshot campaign for California governor produced this compelling video on homelessness:

HMM: Trump May Have Settled on a Running Mate for Potential 2024 Bid.

OK, CHIEF: SFUSD drops the word ‘chief’ from job titles to avoid connotation with Native Americans.

They deserve to be mocked.

NOT “EXAGGERATION,” LIES:

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Coffee: How Many Cups Is Enough?

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Is Amazon Sabotaging a Pro-Trump Kids’ Book?

HMM: Texas Gunman Was In The Room For ’30 Minutes’ Before Tactical Team Breached. Why Did Cops Not Breach Sooner? “There are inconsistencies between different accounts of the timelines of the day, including whether shots were fired when an officer attempted to stop the gunman from entering the school, and questions remain about why law enforcement did not engage him sooner, according to various media reports. One witness told the Associated Press that onlookers had urged police officers to charge the school during the shooting, but to no avail.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Guns Aren’t Radically Deadlier Than They Were 50 Years Ago, But Our Sick Culture Is.

IT’S JUST ANOTHER WEAPON IN THE WAR ON NORMALS: Does Anyone Really Believe in This Transgender Stuff?

UVALDE: Where the Hell Were the Police? “Parents were pleading, ‘Give me the vest, I’ll go in there!’ but some ended up in handcuffs instead of vests.”

OLIVER TRALDI: With All Due Respect to the Experts. “Experts are also susceptible to processes that arbitrarily reinforce an unexamined consensus, both ex ante and ex post. The linguist and left-wing political commentator Noam Chomsky has noted that the technocrats who express their expertise through public policy form a kind of ‘secular priesthood.’ If admission to the priesthood requires demonstrated commitment to certain beliefs, then the deck is already stacked. The consensus view is a prerequisite for qualifying as an expert, not a considered consequence of one’s genuine expertise. Chomsky has always made this case about American foreign policy. But academia and journalism now conduct such sifting quite explicitly, with mandatory diversity statements that function as political pledges and high-profile firings of those who manage to slip through the cracks.”

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Mass Shooting Facts to Shut Down Your Liberal Sister and Her Annoying, Man-Bunned, Non-Binary ‘Boy’ Friend at Your Memorial Day BBQ.

FASTER? PLEASE! World’s fastest passenger jet goes supersonic in tests. “With a capacity for up to 19 passengers, a range of 8,000 nautical miles (14,800 kilometers) and a top speed of Mach 0.94, the upcoming plane is expected to enter service in 2025, according to a statement from Bombardier. The news comes after a Global 7500 test vehicle broke the sound barrier during a demonstration flight last May, achieving speeds of more than Mach 1.015.”

If you have the means, they highly recommend it.

OREGON: The Clackamas County Ballot Fiasco Is Getting Weirder.

WHY WOULD THEY? Saudi Arabia says it won’t take any further action to curb soaring oil prices.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Ever-Classy Obama Uses Texas Massacre to Remind Us He Hates Cops. “Obama’s most enduring legacy is the virulent anti-law enforcement sentiment on the American left. Wherever and whenever there was some conflict between radical, lying leftists and law enforcement Obama made sure to side with the radicals, most notably in Ferguson, Missouri.”

YES: We must confront the cultural mess that gave us Uvalde.

Children should not be forced to undergo regular drills to prepare them for the threat of a shooter. Parents should not be worried about whether those drills will someday be necessary. And the public as a whole should not be accustomed to reading headlines about the latest mass killing. Yet here we are, reading about the 27th school shooting this year.

We have a problem in this country — that’s just a fact. But it’s a problem much more complicated than many would like to admit. The solution is not simply to restrict access to firearms, as gun control advocates like to claim. And I say this as someone who is much more of a squish on gun policies than many of my fellow conservatives. I think it’s ridiculous, for example, that the 18-year-old Uvalde shooter was able to own a gun legally when he was not considered legally responsible or mature enough to buy a beer. And I think certain restrictions, such as narrow and well-defined red flag laws that would allow law enforcement to block a person’s access to firearms if a family member or close friend is able to prove he is mentally unfit to carry one, are a good idea.

But there is no evidence that the sweeping gun control policies pushed by leftists, such as an outright ban on assault-style weapons, would have done anything to prevent the mass shootings that have taken place. Such policies aren’t even good at preventing common crime. In Chicago, for example, which has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, and where law enforcement regularly seizes thousands of illegal weapons per year, crime is so rampant that Mayor Lori Lightfoot had to enact a curfew prohibiting minors from being outside after 10 p.m.

Moreover, gun control policies, even if they could be effective, would be little more than a Band-Aid solution. People don’t shoot each other just because there are guns around. The Uvalde shooter wanted to shoot up a classroom full of children — that’s the real problem.

This, ultimately, is the heart of the debate. Why are so many young men being driven to commit such heinous acts of violence? Why do they always seem to have no one in their lives paying attention to the signs of mental instability and aggression? What is wrong with our systems that they keep failing to identify and help people who are desperately in need of an intervention?

Read the whole thing.

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Matt Margolis: In Tragedy, Democrats Only See Political Opportunity. “Mass shootings, of course, are a tried and true tragedy that Democrats have nailed their responses down to a science.”

Megan Fox: Why Are Amber Heard’s Experts So Weird? “Looks matter, but Heard’s team had no problem hiring an expert who looks exactly like a bitter queen with a rude magic mirror.”

Yours Truly: COVID Vaccines Might Impair Longterm COVID Immunity. “It’s enough to make you wonder what the long-term effects of getting boosted every few months might be.”

Bonus: How to Survive an Active-Shooter Situation.

HMM: ‘Nobody Wants Them’: Moderna Throwing Out 30 Million Vaccine Doses, CEO Says.

WHAT’S IN A NAME? Pentagon Panel Releases Suggested Names to Replace Names of Confederates on Military Bases. “Somewhat controversially — although why that is says a lot about the time we live in — the new name chosen for Fort Bragg is ‘Fort Liberty.'”

FLASHBACK: For 30 Years Guns Were in Schools… and Nothing Happened.

YOU’LL OWN NOTHING, TAKE WHAT YOU’RE TOLD, AND BE HAPPY: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tells WEF crowd about new microchipped pills: ‘Imagine the compliance.’