As I was saying earlier, the massive inefficiencies of having a society with guns everywhere. Autolocking doors, GPS panic buttons for every staff member, multiple police officers dedicated to one school. All of this shit costs a ton of money, and the one reason for it is the extreme lobbying and advertising abilities of the gun industry and scared little men that need a gun to feel safe.One thing not talked about yet is the response by law enforcement. The school installed a new system last week. It’s a panic button on all school staff. So kudos to the school resource officer for making the arrest in under 5 minute.
This was partially studied a decade ago as it was the primary proposal of the NRA. $13 billion per year just for the armed security at that point, and that's not counting the money wasted on physical facility upgrades nor time wasted on shooter drills. Roughly the equivalent of half of federal spending on elementary and secondary education effectively diverted by the states to pay for armed security, or more than $500/child every year that could be spent on education, instead spent on mitigating the impact of the NRA and Republicans killing off our children at the altar of their gun gods for the past 25+ years.As I was saying earlier, the massive inefficiencies of having a society with guns everywhere. Autolocking doors, GPS panic buttons for every staff member, multiple police officers dedicated to one school. All of this shit costs a ton of money, and the one reason for it is the extreme lobbying and advertising abilities of the gun industry and scared little men that need a gun to feel safe.
I think I estimated one time that just the cost of salaries for every school in America to do one active shooter drill a year was like half a billion dollars diverted from teaching.As I was saying earlier, the massive inefficiencies of having a society with guns everywhere. Autolocking doors, GPS panic buttons for every staff member, multiple police officers dedicated to one school. All of this shit costs a ton of money, and the one reason for it is the extreme lobbying and advertising abilities of the gun industry and scared little men that need a gun to feel safe.
I already won because I am no longer in denial that the violence in the world is the violence in me multiplied by all the billions that feel the same way but lack the self awareness to see it. Tell me, did you even have the courage to watch the entirety of the link I left? To me it was just a gift full of wisdom good only for people open to experience. It was not intended as required watching. You have a perfect right to the security of your ignorance.You already won because it wasn't your kid killed at school. It wasn't your husband that got killed trying to protect his classroom. I can not change gun nutters giving minors with depression guns. I sure as hell can't change teenage boys being depressed. Just be sure you kiss your guns goodnight tonight, since there are many parents that can't kiss their kids goodnight because of America's gun fetish.
J.D. Vance says it is just a fact of life and all we need to do is spend more money making schools even more prison like.
Since when is calling for protests, the same as calling for violence?If I didn’t understand your belief in a blood toll which perpetuates blood tolls fron folk like you who happily give them to a new generation not yet infected with them, I would not comment. It’s the pain you are willing to inflict on others to satisfy your blood lust that suggests your contempt for my so called indifference to others is nothing but guilt projected. Violence is an illness, an addiction we cling to prevent self reflection and self awareness of our out of control emotional state. Everybody would know the truth if it were self flattering.
I agree that everyone has violence in them. That is why we shouldn't make tools that allow someone to kill in the fraction of a second with zero thought available to everyone without question. Guns not only make mass murder much easier, they also make killing your wife in the heat of an argument much easier. They also make taking your own life much easier. When we know that everyone is capable of violence under the right circumstances, why do we make it so easy to do?I already won because I am no longer in denial that the violence in the world is the violence in me multiplied by all the billions that feel the same way but lack the self awareness to see it. Tell me, did you even have the courage to watch the entirety of the link I left? To me it was just a gift full of wisdom good only for people open to experience. It was not intended as required watching. You have a perfect right to the security of your ignorance.
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Georgia School Shooting Suspect's Father Arrested: What We Know
Investigators announced Thursday that the suspect's father, Colin Gray, was arrested and charged on several counts.
U.S. News // 10 hours ago
Father of Georgia school shooting suspect charged with murder
Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Colt Gray, the 14-year-old Georgia school shooting suspect, is charged with four counts of murder, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. His first hearing is set for Friday in Barrow County Superior Court.
You are correct. I did what so many do to me, reacting to things that were not said. There is nothing wrong with protesting.Since when is calling for protests, the same as calling for violence?
Or are you confusing topics here?
Foreign policy is over there.
I guess you did not watch the video. Everybody is violent is a generalized description of our culture, a simplification for the sake of ease of description, short for having to clarify over and over again that is what most people see. The realization that there are exceptions and that such exceptions can become the norm is not part of normal awareness, and not implying here that normal is good.I agree that everyone has violence in them. That is why we shouldn't make tools that allow someone to kill in the fraction of a second with zero thought available to everyone without question. Guns not only make mass murder much easier, they also make killing your wife in the heat of an argument much easier. They also make taking your own life much easier. When we know that everyone is capable of violence under the right circumstances, why do we make it so easy to do?
Sounds like we are getting into Kaczynski territory.You are correct. I did what so many do to me, reacting to things that were not said. There is nothing wrong with protesting.
The way that I see however tells me that we have met the enemy and he is us. We protest when our system creates such damaged children they shoot their class mates but by eliminating the long standing rights of people who only have them for completely different reasons.
It seems just like saving children by eliminating the rights to abortion. The protests, in my opinion, should be against the system that churns out the mentally Ill in ever increasing numbers.
Dear Dad, thanks for the beautiful gun instead of helping me with my obvious psychological issues. Think I'll take it to school and blow some people away to show my appreciation, you fucking imbecile. Thanks for caring!
His Mother sounds like a peach. What I see in those pictures is despair but I know enough about the human psyche to acknowledge that what I see is projection. It makes me very sad there are so many people in that condition.View attachment 106978
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I would be wary of them in real life even if they had no history of violence. These two don't look like "good" people. The father looks like a demented retard and the son looks like a typical bully. Cowardly A-holes. Both should never be allowed to see the sun again. ROT IN PEACE, both of you useless waste of precious space and resources!
Their faces have it written on them, "We refuse to be reformed!".
If we keep on avoiding the real issues we will be.Days since last school shooting: 0
I guess the “good” news is we aren’t up to using school shootings per day as the metric quite yet.
What you call contempt for children in my opinion is the result of a lopsided and ignorant expression of an actually valuable principle that adults should grow up capable of caring for themselves. Conservative are infected with ignorant bigotry that the way to teach swimming is to throw those who can’t into the deep end of the pool or starvation is the way to motivate people to work.The GOP has long shown their contempt for children once they've exited the womb, so no, of course they won't. This is why you need to breed extensively, so you've got some spare children. Just don't be poor, they hate that too.
Yes, we keep ignoring the real issue: the easy access to guns.If we keep on avoiding the real issues we will be.
Yes, we keep ignoring the real issue: the easy access to guns.
Nice. So much rational thinking in here in my opinion. A part of the issue in my opinion is the frustration created by injustice that leads to a kind of herd vigilantism a kind of entitlement characterist of people today, that the pain created by constant news on a regular basis that there has been another school mass shooting. The anger it evokes toward people who own guns is a mirror of the anger behind such killings. The pain of those who do such horrible things remind us of our own.Yup there are over 400 million guns in America. Guns are easy to access and will be for the foreseeable future. It is a fact, and it will be extremely difficult or even impossible to change this, whether I like that fact or not. Even if we could pass a complete ban on the sale of new guns there will still be easy access for decades until existing guns break/wear out. That is assuming that parts won't be replaceable via 3D printing or some other unforeseen technological advance or legal loophole.
I see a lot of arguments about what should or should not be, but relatively little substance on how to actually change things. "Guns should be harder to access." "We should change the gun culture." "We should ban a gun that's used in like 1-2% of all murders and that will eliminate those murders because nobody who wants to use this specific type of gun could possibly figure out how to use one of the tools that are used in the other 98% of murders instead".
I think the best solutions are to change whether people want to commit murder in the first place. To research and understand why murders have massively dropped from 30 years ago despite the fact that the number of guns owned has massively increased.