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What was especially tough for me on Friday, was the age and level of innocence of the victims. Guns and first graders just don't compute in my brain. It's not supposed to connect.
To the point, guns in elementary schools, (yes, I appreciate the other position of wanting to be 'armed' against intruders of this kind), is just not something that should be. Ever.
I think the discussion really needs to focus on the root of the problem. Mental health, as well as an effective means to properly secure weaponry (and regulate it to a degree), so that scenarios like these will be less likely to arise.
I honestly do not believe, that adding more guns into the equation, anywhere, is going to solve this problem--just more of the losing the forest for the trees kind of approach, imho.
I honestly do not believe, that adding more guns into the equation, anywhere, is going to solve this problem--just more of the losing the forest for the trees kind of approach, imho.
That's the SAME tired IMAGINED scene that liberals made back in the 90's when more states began to issue CCW's....and it actually coincided with a general trend of all crime lowering...and there weren't all of those fantastically predicted shootouts between citizens whom lost their temper.
What was especially tough for me on Friday, was the age and level of innocence of the victims. Guns and first graders just don't compute in my brain. It's not supposed to connect.
To the point, guns in elementary schools, (yes, I appreciate the other position of wanting to be 'armed' against intruders of this kind), is just not something that should be. Ever.
I think the discussion really needs to focus on the root of the problem. Mental health, as well as an effective means to properly secure weaponry (and regulate it to a degree), so that scenarios like these will be less likely to arise.
I honestly do not believe, that adding more guns into the equation, anywhere, is going to solve this problem--just more of the losing the forest for the trees kind of approach, imho.
Sadly, we have reached the end of our innocense as a country.. Our society has changed and not for the better. No amount of regulation will change the decay that we are experiencing. Are guns in the classroom the answer? Frankly I don't know. I know we have to take some kind of action and the good news is we are still a representative democracy and we have still maintained some states rights. Our system is an ever changing experiment.. Each state is a laboratory for those experiments. What may work in one state, may not in another. You touched on mental health and I agree, but I think the problem is with the very core of our current society. Until we address single parent households and generational poverty, generational early pregnancy and until our young people start accepting the responsibility for their actions, I don't see much changing irrespective of any legislation that may be introduced.
Oh no, Texas has historically been high on the list of teachers gone bad. Read this one- 2007- "Texas ranked number two in the nation for the numbers of teachers sanctioned in sexual misconduct cases" The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search
Woot-Hoot! We got some great teachers down here 'n Tex-I-Ass.. Woot Hoot!!!!!!
I think this Texas stat runs parallel with your football- never quite number one but always in the top three, lol.
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