Not sure he's saying everyone should have equal pay checks. I think he's saying the floor on income needs to be raised so that those at the bottom have more income... more to live for... more at stake. If you live with nothing, have nothing... there's nothing to lose. People with nothing can resort to doing desperate things.
The entry choke point is a nice thought but also completely unrealistic, based solely on how schools have been built for decades. If nothing else, it’s not just doors. Most schools also have large windows on the ground floor that can be easily broken in. Also, unless you’re installing metal detectors in all schools, that’s still not going to prevent guns from getting in the schools.
It happens in America unlike no other place in the world. There's only one reason for that.
I believe it actually was a sheriff. This scene really hit home for me as a teacher. Seeing scared students trying to figure out if a sheriff would really say bro and then running.
When there's an artificial floor, people have no incentive to build their skills. Being poor motivated me to not be poor.
A nationwide propaganda campaign that attempts to make firearms less cool by showing pictures of grown men wearing camo cargo pants and white new balance sneakers.
Are you unable to read? And I'm being serious...I explained it.
We are the only Western nation with this problem. Stop defending the indefensible bullskit.I am in 100% agreement that there should be strict civil liability to any firearm owners for any injuries their firearm causes by anyone; even criminal liability should be on the table but that might be tougher sell for someone who had their firearm stolen or taken without their permission to carry out a crime.
Big picture, the other issue is the needle in a haystack analogy. There are 330 million people in the usa and maybe 100-200 of those 330,000,000 people will carry out a mass shooting tradegy at a school or church or mall or wal mart style in their lifetime. The cold truth is it is still extremely unlikely someone will perish in one of these events; from the linked article:
The lifetime risk of dying in a mass shooting is around 1 in 110,154 — about the same chance of dying from a dog attack or legal execution.
This doesn’t mean that I am pro this or that. What can be done that would identify the proverbial needle in a haystack person from carrying out their wishes, firearm or driving a vehicle into a crowd which is becoming a popular way to commit a mass killing?
Perspective is important because throwing an overwhelming amount of money and political capital in attempt to stop mass shootings from happening may not really have any effect at all.
In my opinion, the best way to approach this issue is local: parents, students, teachers, counselors and others have to take a larger role in mitigating the mass shooting risk.
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I get it. But the guns are in the country. So now what? No Belem, this isn’t a “throw your hands up, and give up” approach.
Hell yes, something's wrong. 25 years ago there were unlocked, loaded guns all over our house. They were considered tools. No way in hell I would do that in my home today. What changed.
Many of the kids I went to high school with had racks in the back window of their pickup trucks holding rifles or shotguns. During hunting season, they would sometimes hunt before school. Nobody gave it a second thought. You would see kids showing each other their guns openly next to the trucks In the parking lot. School employees paid it no mind.
We do live in strange times and we're most certainly NOT on the trajectory that would lead us to a Star Trek-like society. The one we're in now is either terrified or pissed off.
it shows how little things have changed in the time since then. In Sandy Hook you had a parent purchase a gun for a clearly mentally defective minor.
The principals rule was, "If I see a gun in a rack the door better be locked. If it is not locked (and he did periodically check door handles) it is mine."
And it's a lot of "something elses" that combined have divided society, and/or made people depressed, angry, sad, lonely, etc., and some act on it.
No, people are talking about the "income gap". People are asking for a comfortable standard of living for people with no skills.
It is a sad problem. IMO it was already happening before the political divide and before COVID got everyone practicing separation......but both have really ramped up the speed of the deterioration.
We have mostly an older crowd in my neighborhood and everyone is pretty friendly….talk on the street. The exception being the younger folks.
Agreed. We had one of those exceptions move in next to us. Young couple, late 20s. She is very friendly....especially with No Pic. The neighbors mother lives away and seldom visits, while we are empty nesters and No Pic misses our daughter.
Some people aren't capable of skills. Do you think they don't deserve to have a enough money for food, clothing, housing, and a few luxuries(i.e. cable or streaming, money to eat out occasionally, a reliable vehicle, etc.) if they work 40 hours a week? Why should hard working people have to struggle to just survive? It seems like you want to punish them for simply not having the intellect or the resources to get more skills. We need people to do those jobs too.
A gun did far more damage to a crowd in Las Vegas than the car in Waukesha.
On the morning of Tuesday’s shooting, the suspect’s parents were urgently called to Oxford High School after one of his teachers found an alarming note he had drawn, scrawled with images of a gun, a person who had been shot, a laughing emoji and the words “Blood everywhere” and “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.”
Welcome to my hell...son of a bipolar/schizophrenia father who cannot get the mental health community to do a damn thing. I literally get hung up on because I get "too emotional" when trying to get doctors and staff to listen to me.
