ID: Man Carryng Pool Cue Case Shuts Down University

Gun Watch ^ | 3 March, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Our universities have become hotbeds of paranoia about guns. They have become irrational about guns in the hands of anyone who is not wearing a uniform. The paranoia has spread to any object that might be perceived as similar to a gun.

Idaho University at Pocatello showed this paranoia on Monday, the 27th of February, 2017.  A student reported seeing a man carrying what she thought was a gun *case*.  This deserves emphasis.  She did not see a gun.  She thought she saw a gun case. The police were quickly alerted and the school was pretty much shut down as the police searched buildings for the "threat". From kpvi.com:

Pocatello Police and Idaho State University’s Public Safety police were all hands on deck, after reports of a man carrying a gun case on campus.

It all happened around 2:00 p.m. Staff and students were quickly alerted through text messages that police were on campus. Text alerts were sent to Idaho State University students warning them of an unidentified man carrying a gun case on the north side of Frazier Hall. About six police cars were on campus. Pocatello police assisted campus public safety. Some officers could be seen carrying funs after going through each building and sweeping the campus.

There were no shots. There was no brandishing of a firearm. There was no gun. There was no gun case.  It turned out that it was a pool cue case that was innocently carried on campus.  From kpvi.com:

ISU’s public safety officers and Pocatello Police were all on scene screening every building. More than 24 hours later police say the situation was unfounded. Kyle Mauck posted a picture on Facebook saying at the time the report came in, he was walking on campus near Frazier Hall with his pool cues bag, and may have been mistaken as someone with a gun case. PPD tells KPVI Mauck went to police saying he might be the person they were looking for. Police continued their investigation this morning. They showed the witness a picture of Mauck with the pool cues bag. The witness says, that’s the person they saw with the case.

Think of all the ways a person who wanted to conceal a gun could do so, especially on a northern campus in winter.  Any pistol, including the largest, could be concealed under a parka or most practical winter coats.  Most shotguns and rifles including most semi-automatics, can be easily broken down to fit inside a gym bag.  Most would not need to be broken down to fit inside a duffel bag.

I will let the reader dwell on the possibilities of card board boxes, cases for art supplies, the famous brass instruments, and other containers.

It is utterly insane to react this way to seeing a container. In a sane society, we would not act that way for the sighting of a rifle, shotgun, or pistol carried in a non-threatening manner. In New York City, in the 1950's, people routinely rode the subway with rifles and shotguns without any panic.

This is the result of brainwashing.  We are raising a number of hoplophobes. But they are very selective hoblophobes. If the gunman is wearing a uniform, they are immediately perceived as non-threatening.  Perhaps the most "successful" mass shooter of all time put on a uniform to kill 77 people in 2011 in Norway.

We need more than just concealed carry on campus. This incident shows that we need open carry on campus. A dose of reality is required to undo this psychological conditioning.


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[Carthego delenda est]

“Kyle Mauck posted a picture on Facebook saying at the time the report came in, he was walking on campus near Frazier Hall with his pool cues bag, and may have been mistaken as someone with a gun case. PPD tells KPVI Mauck went to police saying he might be the person they were looking for. Police continued their investigation this morning.”

Mauck certainly had a lot of trust in the police to go up to them and say “hey! Maybe I’m the guy you’re looking for”. I wonder how they treated him, given that the article states they still continued the investigation the following morning.

[bobby.223]

Ham and egg punk rail beater: “You better not miss friend.” Eddie: “I don’t rattle kid....and just for that I’m gonna beat ya flat!”

[Billthedrill]

Oddly enough, the U of Idaho in Moscow has an annual week of airsoft combat...

Yeah, it's a Zombie Hunt at the U of I, which causes no end of alarm to the less robust matriculants and faculty. Teams of each hunt one another across campus. If the Zombie tags you, you turn into one and begin hunting your ex-teammates. It's actually nerf guns, but I used to see some pretty fair small-unit tactics amongst the young folks. Total hoot.

[Celtic Conservative]

You could carry a belt fed automatic in a tuba case, with room left over for a 6 pack and your lunch The infantilzation of young adults continues.

CC

[knarf]

Y'got trouble, my friend

[roadcat]

I’m going to be real careful carrying my bowling ball case around. Some liberal idiot might mistake it for an IED.

[knarf]

Y'got trouble, my friend

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Ha ha.

Been there, done that.

I was on vacation in Paris with a history buff. We went to the Invalides and took in the incredible military museum there. Saw Napoleons grave.

I was waiting for the rest of my group and went to hang out in the cafe/gift shop. Well, my father was completely into swords and Napoleonic cavalry head gear at the time, and I thought maybe I could buy my father a souvenir. Something real right from France that he could appreciate.

I bought a replica Napoleonic light cavalry saber. The curved type that the Hussars were armed with. It came with a nice note from the handmaker and came in a lightweight black cloth bag to keep it free from dirt and scratches.

Beingt tourists, somehow we went from the Invalides to the Arc du Triumph. I was tired of carrying the sword around and asked if one of my 2 buddies would hang on to it for me. After a brief while in the museum area just below the roof of the monument, I noticed my friends were getting bored and getting ready to go upstairs to the roof for the view.

Something caught my eye and it was 2 immaculately dressed men with impeccable hairstyles standing on the other side of the room, and their eyes were riveted on my buddies. One was white and one was black and they looked like they could have been primary alternates for Miami Vice. I mean these guys were completely GQ to the max. They stuck out like a sore them. As it turns out, they were French plain clothes government security on guard for terrorists and whatnot. This was 2004, not long after 9/11.

I glanced back at my friends, and SURE ENOUGH!!! That curved sword in the black cloth case looked damn near like a rifle the way my friend was holding it. It looked like he was carrying a bagged rifle up the stairs to the roof. I yelled to my friend to come over to me, trying to disarm the situation. The French security pair smoothly but RAPIDLY intercepted my friends and asked for the black clothed item. I think all eyes were on my friends and the 2 French security officers.

When the French officer pulled the sword from the bag, I said it was a souvenir for my father, and both men just burst out laughing. I’m probably the subject of their stories to this day. I swear the way my friend was holding that cloth bagged sword, the hilt really looked like a rifle stock while the narrow tip could house a barrel.

It just never occured to me until the instant I looked at the steel cold eyes of the two GQ appearing French officers just drilling a hole through my buddies with their suddenly panicked eyes.

It is a moment I will never forget. To see them go from calm to full red alert in a moment is just something I will never forget. And they’ll never forget the view of my buddy going up the steps looking like he was carrying a sniper rifel to the roof.

LOL. Life is weird.

[P.O.E.]

Sixfinger toy ad

[vooch]

this BS happens all the time

[trebb]

Add fanny packs and purses, big pockets, jackets un-tucked shirts.....

[Sirius Lee]

I love that Guido packed a silver tip badger shaving brush along with his heat.

[FreedomPoster]

My son works for a super-Millennial-friendly place. Like what you’ve read about Google, but not Google. I don’t know if it’s still a thing, as they’ve grown a lot in the last couple of years, but a couple years ago the office had a huge Nerf gun arsenal obvious just walking around the place, and apparently it got used regularly in office Nerf wars.

[FreedomPoster]

I noticed that too. Are you another Classic Shaving guy?

I’m thinking maybe it was used to dust off the Thompson? There wasn’t any other shaving gear, no soap dish and soap, say.

[Sirius Lee]

I found my father's shaving cup after he died and started shaving old school after that.

Guido might keep the razor in his pocket, handy like, in case he runs into Tony Two-pockets Provenzano. The soap dish he keeps in his holster.

[alfa6]

Your pic reminds me of the old joke...

How do you tell the musicians from the mafia at an Italian wedding?

The musicians are the ones without the violin cases!

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[marktwain]

I have been doing some research on use of machine guns in crime before the 1934 National Firearms Act.

It turns out that it was very, very, rare.

I mean, rare, like a dozen murders over five years rare.

It was partly because the guns were so expensive, only relatively successful criminals could afford them; or they stole them from the police.

They were hyped way beyond all reason by the newspapers.

But their actual use in crime was a tiny, tiny percentage of the total.

[Red in Blue PA]

More proof, as if any is needed, that colleges are indeed inhabited by the smallest minds in existence.

[Red in Blue PA]

Modern day gang-bangers stride around cities with gun cases in tow. This is gravely concerning/s

[BlueLancer]