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PoindexterOglethorpe

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6. I'm reminded of how after the theater shooting in Colorado,
Tue Apr 3, 2018, 12:49 AM
Apr 2018

certain movie chains made women open their purses to inspection. Apparently that shooter was a woman who brought in his guns in his purse. Not.

And again, the Parkland shooting was NOT a student who brought in his guns in a back pack.

To (appropriately I think) mix a metaphor, this is locking the barn after the well has been poisoned.

They are idiotically going after the wrong thing.

The problem is guns. Let's take away the guns, as so many other countries have. Let's stop pretending that shootings are normal and a sad consequence of our second amendment. Let's decide the people's LIVES matter vastly more than the fucking guns.

God, this is it. Police state. [View all] DemocracyMouse Apr 2018 OP
My grandson has to walk through a metal detector at his high school AJT Apr 2018 #1
Does he accept it as normal?Has he ever known the exquisite feeling of being considered trustworthy? DemocracyMouse Apr 2018 #2
He accepts it. It's sad because it is a decent school. AJT Apr 2018 #4
Your grandson will be a better human for going to the public school. democratisphere Apr 2018 #27
Disgusting. cilla4progress Apr 2018 #3
And the expense rolls into the per student cost exboyfil Apr 2018 #5
I'm reminded of how after the theater shooting in Colorado, PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #6
It was a former student. Igel Apr 2018 #10
And of course the possibility of no guns PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #11
"Personally I'd confiscate them all. " MichMary Apr 2018 #13
Not sure. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #18
Australia MichMary Apr 2018 #20
And they don't have mass gun murders. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #21
You're right MichMary Apr 2018 #23
Not sure how much better the system needs to be. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #29
Maybe less "identifying" and more "treating" the mentally ill MichMary Apr 2018 #31
And that's hardly unusual. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #35
" It's time for a nonviolent revolution. " sfwriter Apr 2018 #7
Amen to that! DemocracyMouse Apr 2018 #16
Like the one that had 65M people voting for one candidate but the one with lesser votes 'won'? ck4829 Apr 2018 #26
We had a presidential election in 2016. elocs Apr 2018 #30
Single points of entry lapfog_1 Apr 2018 #8
It's common in a lot of places. Igel Apr 2018 #9
Clear bags do not equal police state SCantiGOP Apr 2018 #19
If they really wanted to be safe, they'd install metal detectors on the school buses Blue_Adept Apr 2018 #12
What about MichMary Apr 2018 #14
metal detectors in every doorway! Blue_Adept Apr 2018 #15
Clear backpacks + metal detectors are not what the constitution means by a "well regulated militia" DemocracyMouse Apr 2018 #17
The original intent MichMary Apr 2018 #22
I'm not all that angry about MichMary Apr 2018 #24
It makes no sense and would not have stopped Cruz alarimer Apr 2018 #25
Guns are not going to be banned MichMary Apr 2018 #33
Maybe, but these events will continue unless they are banned. alarimer Apr 2018 #34
Who knew AR-15's can fit in back-packs C_U_L8R Apr 2018 #28
He had loaded magazines in a backpack MichMary Apr 2018 #32
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