@Ted: Please read the articles linked above. It is made quite clear that the kits are produced and sold by a third party company, not by the Lego Group.(links are in Bell's blog post)
@Juice: I agree with you. I find it understandable that he feels some embarrassment but his tone indicated to me that he feels responsibility, which seems absurd.
The company mentioned in the article that sells those lego kits is going to get so much business from this. ^_^
Granted that there is little information given but deploying what was reported as nearly two dozen police officers, SWAT and enough cruisers to block off the surrounding streets included, plus EMTs and a chopper seems like a wasteful overreaction to a single report that doesn't seem to indicate eminent threat.
Both the news article and Bell's blog indicate that the call made to police just said that the person saw Bell sitting in his office with a gun on his desk and his door closed. Isn't some form of verification or further assessment of the danger appropriate. An example to me would be keeping the person making the report on the phone and sending a patrol unit or two by to carefully check things out while putting the tactical response units on alert.
I'm glad the primary is over and that it was Obama. I've found Hillary to have been to hard and inflexible, I don't trust her to be an effective enough leader to achieve the things that I find important. I'm also concerned that she's such a strong force that if she gets choosen for VP then the two of them will conflict in ways that damage their ability to be effective in office.
As far as historic events go the next benchmark will be when race and gender aren't important enough to be noticed or considered beyond the appropriate use of pronouns.
@Juice: I agree with you. I find it understandable that he feels some embarrassment but his tone indicated to me that he feels responsibility, which seems absurd.
Granted that there is little information given but deploying what was reported as nearly two dozen police officers, SWAT and enough cruisers to block off the surrounding streets included, plus EMTs and a chopper seems like a wasteful overreaction to a single report that doesn't seem to indicate eminent threat.
Both the news article and Bell's blog indicate that the call made to police just said that the person saw Bell sitting in his office with a gun on his desk and his door closed. Isn't some form of verification or further assessment of the danger appropriate. An example to me would be keeping the person making the report on the phone and sending a patrol unit or two by to carefully check things out while putting the tactical response units on alert.
If your wanting practical solutions then Tom has it right, although I'd go with good running shoes in place of a war mace.
As far as historic events go the next benchmark will be when race and gender aren't important enough to be noticed or considered beyond the appropriate use of pronouns.