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11-30-2021, 2:40pm | #1 |
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Pat, I'd like to solve the puzzle. Michigan HS shooting...
In the Detroit area. Those damn Amish keep causing trouble. It's gotta be the Amish.
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[CNN] Automatic assault weapon crosses state lines and goes on rampage [CNN]
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ahem, guns are not allowed on school property......
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15 year old kid with a handgun.
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Train em young in Detroit, Chicago…….
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Here's a radically different twist on this endless debate, but let me tell you what I'm doing as a single white male individual to help the less fortunate...meaning the "Pat, I'd like to solve the puzzle".
Background, yes you all know I do well, I'm in the tech industry for 35 years, and currently work in the Salesforce Ecosystem. I am paid handsomely. I have always had a soft spot for mentoring and building people's skills. GWiz is the classic example. You all know her story, and how successful she is, blah blah blah. Fast forward to now, I have befriended a 28 year old minority woman who works at the gas station where I buy my beer, and who also works full time at McDonalds. This is a minority woman who WORKS...doesn't take. She works 80 hours a week at two entry level jobs, but is succeeding. She has the right stuff. So, I bought her a laptop computer (she had no computer), and I now meet with her weekly for lunch and train her for 2 hours. Off hours she uses the Salesforce training platform to earn badges and learn content. I discussed this venture with my own handlers today and it was a huge success. They are going to evaluate her progress in the first week of January and potentially offer her an internship or full time job based on her skills. I am committed to make sure she can get into this ecosystem. This is LIFE CHANGING money potential for this woman. I expect zero in return. Best parallel I can give is what I did for the Polar Bear Plunge this year. I'm a mutt, and was given up for adoption, or call it thrown away, yet I've achieved wonderful things. This is my way of giving back. My employer wants me to expand my efforts on what I'm doing to future individuals. Only required trait is "drive". |
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Being adopted, meeting and having a relationship with my birth mother, and also having a brother who was also adopted, has given me first hand insight on the impact of both genetics and environment. BOTH play a huge role, but my drive for this woman is because I believe she has the genetics, but no environment to escape from the system.
I do have empathy for environment. GWiz had it all. So many do not. Regardless, if you don't have the genes (drive), then you're wasting my time. |
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hope she realizes the opportunity being given to her, and that she takes full advantage of it. get out of her dead ends.
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To date, and based on her accomplishments, I think she gets it VERY much. Being 28, she's got "some" life experience. I know she recognizes this as a way out, and that my involvement is genuine. She cried for a day and a half when I gave her a brand new computer.
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Sux that it happened here in amazing Michigan. But, without (really) trying to politicize it somewhat feels as ground zero for the frustration of way-too-young Americans battling increasingly opposing values
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I hate to take away from what happened and all, but is everybody who gets shot, killed or injured actually a "hero?"
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Just as a way of introduction, the pro-Trump site quoted here most always has the correct info. I'm not guaranteeing the veracity, that this is the shooter, but....I'd bet all my barn bucks and some real foldin' money on it that this is correct. |
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