My nephews have to do active shooter drills in school. All we had to worry about was fire drills growing up. What a garbage reality to live with.
No - those things suck too.
The whole point I'm trying to make is that we shouldn't need ANY of these types of things in our schools and if we have to deploy them, it's a complete and utter failure.
I’ve thought for awhile now that the only guns that should remain widely available are the ones you list above. Those cover most hunting, sport, and self defense needs.FYI-Most guns that you can legally own are semi-automatic. The only guns that aren't are pump action shotguns, lever action rifles, bolt action rifles and revolvers (although, technically they are semi-automatic in that for every pull of the trigger it fires a round with no other action necessary).
Sadly metal detectors are not so great at keeping weapons off planes.Unfortunately considering the reality we currently face I don't know what alternative we have to "securing/fortifying" our schools. It works to keep the vast majority of weapons off planes and out of courthouses so logic dictates it would work in schools too.
Controlled-access through a metal-detector operated by a cop (and the like) might do some psychological harm to kids but it's nothing compared to being shot.
In some ways I miss when my daughters were little BUT on the other hand I genuinely feel bad for parents in 2022 America.
You are right, the armed guards were not killed, but they were shot.I don't think that is true. I think the only adults he killed were 2 teachers.
Sadly metal detectors are not so great at keeping weapons off planes.
Which is why this has to become the leading issue in November. Are people that greedy that inflation will still be the main talking point?
You are right, the armed guards were not killed, but they were shot.
The point is that there were already 'gud guy with guns' at the school. It didn't help.
Have said the same for a long long time. One of the many seemingly obvious compromises in my mind.I’ve thought for awhile now that the only guns that should remain widely available are the ones you list above. Those cover most hunting, sport, and self defense needs.
Semi-autos should be treated like full autos via an updated FOPA type law.
This has been my take for the last few years as well.I’ve thought for awhile now that the only guns that should remain widely available are the ones you list above. Those cover most hunting, sport, and self defense needs.
Semi-autos should be treated like full autos via an updated FOPA type law.
They may make that argument, but it is not a valid one. In this case the armed people didn't even seem to slow him down.their argument will be "but think if they weren't there... so many more would have been killed"
Which I guess is technically a possibly valid argument. But that's not how they originally sell "armed teachers" and "cops in school". Their idea/sales pitch is that if there are armed adults, then these events wouldn't happen. Not if there are armed adults, when these events happen, less people will get killed
But if 90% of people support gun regulations it’s time to exclusively focus on this. And if they lose, just shows the who is the shit hole countryAnd if you make the political fight over gun control - one of the most divisive issues you can have that loses elections over and over again - instead of being about our last chance to defeat a fascist takeover - you will lose any shot we have at keeping any pretense of a democracy
But if 90% of people support gun regulations it’s time to exclusively focus on this.
You are right, the armed guards were not killed, but they were shot.
The point is that there were already 'gud guy with guns' at the school. It didn't help.
Here's some irony:
The NRA Is Banning Guns for Trump's Appearance at Its Upcoming Convention
"The organization that lobbies for laws that make it easy for anyone to carry a gun does not want anyone carrying a gun to their own event, oddly."
Let's spend billions "hardening" the schools, which will do nothing except make kids feel like they are in a prison and further isolate parents from schooling.I would add considering raising age limits on purchase of more powerful arms.
Current laws say 18yos are not mentality mature enough to: drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, or buy handguns... but they can get semi auto rifles without restriction.
Many of these shootings are by males in this age range, and this needs to be reconsidered.
Allow hunting suitable firearms, eg bolt actions, non-semi shotguns, but not heavier items.
Democrats won't go anywhere with this, so they need to compromise and allow some Republican solutions to the problem.
Schools need to be hardened. It's insane we wasted hundreds of billions on PPP and other govt waste, but a school like this is defenseless, not access controlled, and no safety officers available.
Ds will seriously need to consider allowing R areas to allow teachers to arm themselves as well.
Just blaming guns and pushing only gun control onto 100M law abiding citizens (many who own to protect themselves and their family) will be guaranteed failure.
This has been my take for the last few years as well.
Semi-autos have no place in society (as someone who owns one)
Solution is obviously more guns. Never mind many other countries do it differently and don't have mass shootings every week. They're probably soshulists...Let's spend billions "hardening" the schools, which will do nothing except make kids feel like they are in a prison and further isolate parents from schooling.
From what I read, no armed security guards(good guy's with guns) were on campus. What happened is the Police Officers that responded, a at least one was wounded by the gunman.
https://www.npr.org/live-updates/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-05-25-2022
This is what real evil looks like.