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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThings we can do NOW to protect our children in schools:
I keep harping that Democrats need to run on a safe schools program, and it keeps getting a cricket response. So, let's try again:
(1) Improve school design for public schools, where it's needed. I know some public school are built like fortresses, but not all. Some are built right off major highways where anyone can crash a barrier and run straight to a classroom. Those schools need to be fortified or redesigned. If there is no money in the school system, then it's time to get the money back from private schools. That transfer of public to private tax money is an abomination of the Constitution.
(2) Start now bringing in child psychology experts to explain that the GOP Conservative Anglo-indoctrination Camps that the Right is trying to turn our school into is going to create a lot of maladjusted kids. And with the prevalence of guns, it makes a bad mix. What a fucking right-wing quagmire. Republicans are going to create children with mental health problems, and when they go on a rampage, they'll say it was the mental health problem and not the guns.
Republicans just never think about the consequences of their policies. Or maybe they do. Maybe the reason why they want easy access to guns is because they are arming their people because they know that they can't push their policies on us without a fight? And, horrors of horrors, it never occurred to them that young men would buy those guns and storm schools?
We need to be the ones to protect our children, because Republicans are too compromised to be of any use.
Magoo48
(4,735 posts)Not simply discussed but done.
Baitball Blogger
(46,830 posts)Hard right conservatives are going to end up creating the next generation of politically active progressives.
De Santis is lucky that this year's school session is over.
Magoo48
(4,735 posts)uponit7771
(90,380 posts)... be like this
Baitball Blogger
(46,830 posts)It's an emergency. The Feds should send teams of experts to assess the safety of our public schools. Don't leave it up to the States. If they are controlled by Republican governors, they are okay with what is happening today. Or, at least, their do nothing behavior suggests as much.
uponit7771
(90,380 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,433 posts)Handguns and assault rifles need to be confiscated and destroyed. Hunting rifles AND HUNTERS (sport and agricultural) must be regulated with an eye to safety.
Change the constitution or change the courts to read the founding document as it was written (ya know...the "Well regulated militia and everything part). Our current SCOTUS is dominated by corrupt corporate shills.
No other country accepts the gun carnage that Americans watch every day on the news. It CAN change. It MUST change.
THERE! I said it!
I know it is a heavy lift, but the time to start was 2000 and 2016. Since we can't change history, WE MUST begin at all levels to take back our government.
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