Why mass shootings happen in America on a routine basis, making us an outlier among not just peer nations but virtually every nation, is unknowable.
About 5-6 years ago, I had a pleasant conversation with Tony Dorsett that included some discussion of the lingering brain trauma from his football career. Good guy.
Herschel Walker mostly just seems really dumb.
We need fewer doors and more armed teachers so we can free up police to focus on their primary job of shooting unarmed people of color.
Regarding the early disinformation from Texas officials and the police response:
Who are you going to believe? These big law enforcement officers all lined up here with their big hats and big guns?
Or a bunch of lying fourth-graders?
"What about getting a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at their social media?”
Herschel Walker is the Gary Busey of Kanye Wests.
Fourth-grader: Smears herself with her dead friend’s blood so as to look dead herself.
Cops: Respek mah authoritah, you riled-up peasants!
Of course it was an unlocked backdoor! What the hell the shooter had the right to that rifle!
Seriously what F is wrong with Ted Cruz?
You know the GOP specifically, and the county in general, have a serious problem when the solution is to “harden” schools, as if they were a military base in a war zone. So much for schools as a place of learning. No, the solution for the GOP is essentially to give each kid body armor, a glock, and turn them into little special forces troops. Shooting Range practice will be the new recess.
Yes, “harden” those schools. Because kids don’t go outside to play. People don’t come & go throughout the day. Our schools are not made of multiple buildings connected by breezeways. Don’t forget to bar the windows. We can’t afford air conditioning or filters for their health, but breathing is overrated. … …
Why do guys like Ted love to repeat “harden” so often?
I’m losing my sense of humor about this.
Armed teachers. Armed guards at grocery stores. Wait, there was an armed guard and the shooter killed him. So, more heavily armed guards at grocery stores. Maybe a heavy weapons platoon. Oh, and armed guards in churches. “Blessed is the heavily armed shepherd, for he shall shoot at the wolf and mistakenly kill the lamb.” And all those workplace massacres. Armed guards at every workplace. In yoga studios. Movie theaters. What have we left out? Gun shops?
Jokes aside, the GOP’s affirmative vision of society is a war zone. Their policy proposals–“hardened” targets, heavier weapons, ubiquitous firearms–all aim to enhance the vision of society as a battlefield. We have invaded ourselves, and the GOP is falling all over itself to make sure the invaders are free to be as heavily armed as possible, so that the invasion may continue, and grow more bloody and violent. Those who are about to die salute the 2nd Amendment!
Because all the schools have gone soft. Nothing can be soft, no matter what. We got to toughen them up so they don’t grow up to be whiny liberals.
“It’s not just teachers. It’s making sure that people who are inside of school have the ability to defend themselves,” Vos said.
Yes, just imagine how many lives would have been saved if each of those murdered children had been armed with his or her own gun.
So when the schools are secure, these incels will just go to a Walmart or a church.
Such an inscrutable problem, one with no identifiable common denominator to help elucidate, demands creative solutions.
Careful, Kate. With your tongue that far in your cheek you could hurt yourself.
"I have been advocating for years: people, retired military, retired law enforcement outside the perimeter of every school in the country,” added Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Ok, but what about grocery stores? Movie theaters? Music concerts? Shopping malls?
If mass shooters go for the soft targets, as you guys are always saying, won’t hardening one target just make them move on to the next? Should we put armed (and armored) guards at every public place?
Lock ourselves up and let the gunmen run free, after all this America!
I was thinking along those same lines. I’m surprised a fascist hasn’t made the argument that since school shootings are on the rise and there’s not a single reasonable way to slow them, of course abortion should be illegal. We’ll need as many replacement kids as possible. After all, common sense gun control and regulation is absolutely not acceptable.
Apart from everything else, any kid who has spent time in a lockdown drill is going to be able to figure out the weak spots.
The odds always favor the insurgent, not the sentry.
“But the idea that we are going to take a heinous act like this and find some kind of logical way to prevent it 100 percent of the time, I just don’t see that occurring.”
From which it follows, of course, that we should therefore not enact any measures which might reduce these heinous acts by any number less than 100 percent. It’s all or nothing, baby!
