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Secure the classrooms...yes I'm all for that. Bulletproof glass at every school in the nation? Is that financial doable? Have you thought it through?
we just passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut, so yeah, it's perfectly financially doable. it's about priorities and frankly the GOP doesn't give a sh*t about dead kids.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
I really think as a society we should listen to what this man is saying. I only found out about Park Dietz's view through WAB some time ago when another member posted posted a video of his saying essentially the same thing.
I think this guy is spot on.
The problem is the Media wants their 'Dirty Laundry'.
As someone who despises the left, and often goes to FOX NEWS for 'news'. I was absolutely appalled when I hit Fox News yesterday, and my ENTIRE SCREEN blew up "17 dead". I'm thinking to myself,you idiots...your doing exactly what this guy wants, and making it 24/7 news. So the Media...both right and left are part of the problem.
we just passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut, so yeah, it's perfectly financially doable. it's about priorities and frankly the GOP doesn't give a sh*t about dead kids.
And the democrats do? Why wasn't securing the classrooms implemented under the Obama administration?
Both sides are to blame. Two party Tyranny (Uni-party)...but banning guns is not the answer.
And yes...as a Trump voter...Trump is an idiot for signing that if it's true. Those with mental illnesses shouldn't be allowed to purchase firearms.
Realistically, it's not going to prevent someone from with a mental illness from getting access to a gun if that's their sole intention...they will simply steal it, or buy one illegally. What happens the majority of the time is these nutjobs take the gun from a gun owner without their knowledge...many of of these gun control laws do very little. That doesn't mean we should make it easy for them to get it, especially if they have a history of medical illness.
If Americans can find a solution like securing the classroom, and preventing deaths I'm all for it, whether or not that means guns or no guns are needed to prevent child deaths. Whatsoever can be proven to work...I will support it.
I just don't believe less guns is the answer.
Personally, I always feel better knowing there are 'good guys' around carrying guns in case something bad happens, or some nutjob comes along.
As tragic as school shootings are, the chances of dying in a school shooting is probably close to the odds of dying in an airplane crash.
Teachers, on the other hand, they're not soldiers, and they're not cops (and we know cops have a hard enough time not shooting people unnecessarily). The introduction of 7+ million guns into an educational setting would cause far more deaths than the current rate of school shootings. Teachers shooting kids, teachers shooting teachers, kids getting ahold of a teacher's gun and shooting kids/teachers, etc.
Thousands of guns get stolen each year from even the police themselves, and yeah, I don't think things would go well where you have several million civilians possessing guns in an environment of 80 million children and young adults.
"Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."
you'll need to explain then why we aren't the safest society around then given this.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
you'll need to explain then why we aren't the safest society around then given this.
To put a wrench in that line of thinking: Compare the French and German numbers in that chart.
Germany at about 30%, France at about 15%. Both numbers include illegally owned weapons btw, at average estimates (20 million for Germany, 10 million for France; legal weapons are 6 million for Germany, 3 million for France). The difference though: In France 2.75 per 100,000 people, or 13.8 per 100,000 firearms die in firearms-related incidents (shot to death or committed suicide using one). In Germany the number is 1.0 per 100,000 people, or 3.15 per 100,000 firearms.
P.S.: You really don't want to live in France and its one-seventh the per-capita guns.
France 9.0 suicides + 4.8 homicides using firearms per 100,000 firearms
USA 8.2 suicides + 1.8 homicides using firearms per 100,000 firearms
Germany 2.9 suicides + 0.3 homicides using firearms per 100,000 firearms
To put a wrench in that line of thinking: Compare the French and German numbers in that chart.
Germany at about 30%, France at about 15%. Both numbers include illegally owned weapons btw, at average estimates (20 million for Germany, 10 million for France; legal weapons are 6 million for Germany, 3 million for France). The difference though: In France 2.75 per 100,000 people, or 13.8 per 100,000 firearms die in firearms-related incidents (shot to death or committed suicide using one). In Germany the number is 1.0 per 100,000 people, or 3.15 per 100,000 firearms.
P.S.: You really don't want to live in France and its one-seventh the per-capita guns.
France 9.0 suicides + 4.8 homicides using firearms per 100,000 firearms
USA 8.2 suicides + 1.8 homicides using firearms per 100,000 firearms
Germany 2.9 suicides + 0.3 homicides using firearms per 100,000 firearms
well, considering the absolute -number- of guns in the US...that also highly accelerates your overall chances. and moreover, if we're discussing mass shootings...
here's some more graphs.
US gun regulations, if anything, have decreased significantly over the last 20 years (no one is going to bring up the assault weapons ban anytime soon, for instance, and that's just the federal level). correspondingly, the number of guns in the US has increased 50% over the last twenty years.
for some reason I don't see the US as 50% safer from mass shootings.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
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