u/PeteTinNY

Monday. Cambridge, MA. A man walks down Memorial Drive with a rifle and starts shooting at cars. Two people hit. People trapped, ducking, nowhere to go.

A Massachusetts State Police trooper engages him. So does a licensed civilian — pulls a legal 9mm from a safe in his car, fires, moves to cover, warns bystanders to get back, then sets his gun on the ground before police arrive.

Both of them ran toward it. The trooper does it because it's his job. The civilian because he chose to.

That civilian is a hero. So is that trooper. Full stop.

Now the questions nobody in power wants to answer.

The shooter reportedly pleaded guilty in 2020 to armed assault with intent to murder — after shooting at a Boston Police officer. Three days before Monday, he was released from a psychiatric hospital. His parole officer saw him on FaceTime waving a rifle, called the Boston Police, and warned them he was a danger.

Less than two hours before the shooting.

He was already federally prohibited from touching a gun or a single round of ammo. Massachusetts has the third strictest gun laws in the country.

He had a rifle anyway.

So, someone tell me — how does making it harder for us stop that guy? We did the background checks. We took the classes. We waited for months. We paid the fees. We did everything right.

He didn't follow a single law, and the system that was supposed to contain him let him walk. Why are we the ones being disarmed?

Working on a full breakdown. Drop a comment if you want the link when it's up.

What's your take?

Wow. All I can say is wow even though THANK YOU comes very close.

The FBI New York Field Office invited our Citizens Academy class out to US Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst to one of their training ranges. Even after some pretty crazy storms that took out power in the hotel briefly it turned out to be a beautiful day. Now JB MDL has 72 ranges for every kind of training including a couple ranges made of air to land training but we were on one of the law enforcement ranges where they were set up on three areas for rifle, pistol and what they called “having fun”. They even had a tactical shoot house.

Unlike other law enforcement community programs I’ve attended it was less talk and demo and pretty much all trigger time. We did our basic safety briefing (which I will say - I do better) and some networking in the “classroom” since we unfortunately was supposed to do this last year, but our class was delayed by the government shutdowns, then in February but delayed because of the snow storms. So unfortunately we lost people in the class because life happens. (Interestingly they get close to 500 applicants a year, they interview about 100 and run full background checks with fingerprints, then accept about 45. Our class was delayed so we dropped down to about 26)

Then we went out to the range with about 20 people and they set up a bunch of stations with guns and FBI instructors.

First table was Suppressed M4 .223 (semiauto / 3 round bursts)

Next was my favorite HK MP10 - a FBI specific 10mm version of the MP9 in semi / 2 shot burst and full auto.

Next you had the pistols - FBI is known for their special edition Glock 19M and now they have a 19M in MOS with a red dot (Trijicon RMR). We got both.

Finally on the last table was a Remington 870 police magnum - only a short Barrel one. 16 inches instead of 18 inches.

And we got to choose what we wanted to try and shot against steel targets so no wasted time changing paper targets to waiting for cease fires. Just 3 hours of shooting things NY would throw us in jail and throw away the key for owning. It was incredible. I knew they would have pistols but I thought they would be doing 3 hours of talk and let people shoot some basic stuff …. But it was incredible. They let us go full auto, yes it was 1:1 with guns to instructors but wow.

So yeah even though I doubt the people that actually do the work ever read this - I want to say thank you to the people of the FBI NY office in community programs and private sector / infragard.

It was an incredible experience - can’t wait for next years shoot! Hopefully someday they will do it on the Long Island range.

Has anyone tried this? I have a site that I’ve been building out with content for my training business. It’s really deep 3-6k world blog posts but I’m missing a ton of seo and engagement stuff. I don’t have keywords applied, the ctr on posts that get hundreds of impressions is like .1% or even more 0 while position says in the top 10 so titles and meta description need help. I also have almost no photos.

So was thinking of giving AI the job to fix one post at a time based on what the statistics say. But giving a 3rd party access to my site sees scary.

What do you think?