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Anything but trying to solve the underlying problems. Bonus: someone makes bank.
There's literally no number of children that can die before reasonable action is taken.
It's not the number that matters, it's whose kids it is getting killed. If someone were to shoot up a school filled with politicians' kids you'll see some change rapidly.
🤔 maybe
Ya, I'm pretty skeptical too. Maybe we should try and see for sure.
but its less likely to happen since private schools tend to be in wealthy areas, and is probably gated up. and PRIVATE school admins/rich parents are very quick to get rid of "problem students" aka "quiet dismissal but not outright expulsion", a public schools wont do that, unless it becomes serious. i was in a sub about youtube channels owner(used to follow who sent thier kid to a private school, he was forced to leave because he was displaying aggressive behaviour from seizure meds, and the school was pressuring/ostracizing the students to leave the school, last i heard the kid sits at home and does nothing.)
They sometimes are in normal schools, just under pseudonyms or not aiming for too much attention.
Doesn't really change the fact that it's more about whose child it is getting killed. They don't care til it happens to them, the fucking GOP in a nutshell.. Even then, significant change for the better is a crapshoot at best.
I suppose it is better than thoughts and prayers... but avoiding addressing the root cause is all politicians do.
Pray for your drone overlords to suicide bomb the mentally disturbed with too many guns before it’s too late!
Just waiting for the reports of privacy violations, and noise issues, let's just hope that's as bad as this gets.
I actually saw a news segment on the demo, and they said they would be thrilled if they were able to put these in every classroom and never have to use it. Im sure you would, buddy...
I grew up in a racist environment and parroted what was around me most of my young life. It’s all I knew, I didn’t change until I experienced the world and broadened my world view. Many of these “bigots” are ignorant and exploited. They are not evil people that should be eliminated. Your way of intolerance is the same type of ignorance you claim to hate. Dehumanizing any person or group as below you and therefore justify violence against is the worse part of society and the thing that needs to be cured. Racism is just one facet of that beast.
First - you are right.
Second - questioning dogma is always virtuous, even if the dogma is "people of race A are not worse or better than people of race B", the fact of questioning itself doesn't cause anything bad, while banning that from being questioned also bans the similar or associated statements, and similarity\associations are subjective.
Third - the reason our world is in such shit is that it became commonly shunned to question authority and normalized to fear authority. Because common set of moral principles is authority too. Where in 1960s (segregation and much more liberal gun laws in places like USA, no voting rights for women in places like Switzerland, former Nazis everywhere feeling nice and joking about it in public in places like Germany, literal colonial wars, normalized racism and so on) it was normal, at least in books and movies, to question any person, in suit or not, demanding anything from you, and asking for some legal substantiation. Even in the bloody USSR. In our days in TV and books and imagined universes and in reality asking "why should I do that" is treated as a mutiny.
We live in a world where it's forbidden to ask "by which right".
At least in societies pretending to be civilized this was considered a thing of the past after WWII. Not that it didn't exist. Now it's normal, people look at you with hostility for saying the obvious about preemptive obedience and such.
I’m sorry you’ve been afflicted with the disease of stupid
What do racist have to do with school shootings?
That is the dumbest question ever asked
Really. This is the dumbest question ever.
Then surely you can answer it
That's what I thought.
looks at crime stats / looks at quantity and scale of wars / looks at quality of sanitation
Naw, we have it pretty damn good compared compared to basically all of history.
Certainly doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to continue to improve.