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Now they will need to do that at churches as well.
An amazing case for reducing gun ownership in America
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Hüsker Dü
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Like with the opioid "epidemic" no one cares until it reaches the white neighborhood, and they can afford more opioids and more guns.
Hüsker Dü
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You are an idiot, has anyone told you that before? Well, I will, you are an idiot.
Bruddah IZ
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Newsflash: Teachers Are Already Armed
Maybe we should just stop disarming them.
https://fee.org/articles/newsflash-teachers-are-already-armed/
Arm and Train?
The conservative answer to liberal prohibition (oxymoron?) is to “arm and train the teachers.” While no one has come out and suggested mandating teachers carry firearms or be trained in using them, every suggestion seems to suggest “we” (i.e., the government) need to do the arming and training.
Here’s a little newsflash for both sides: the teachers are already armed.
Maybe we should just stop disarming them.
https://fee.org/articles/newsflash-teachers-are-already-armed/
Arm and Train?
The conservative answer to liberal prohibition (oxymoron?) is to “arm and train the teachers.” While no one has come out and suggested mandating teachers carry firearms or be trained in using them, every suggestion seems to suggest “we” (i.e., the government) need to do the arming and training.
Here’s a little newsflash for both sides: the teachers are already armed.
Bruddah IZ
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Four Little Words
I’ve often said the greatest danger to liberty is not a foreign army, terrorists, or even a homegrown tyrant. It is four little words. And they aren’t, “Up against the wall!” That comes later.
They are, “Something must be done.”
I’ve often said the greatest danger to liberty is not a foreign army, terrorists, or even a homegrown tyrant. It is four little words. And they aren’t, “Up against the wall!” That comes later.
They are, “Something must be done.”
*GOBEARGO*
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Bruddah IZ
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Instead of the government “doing something” about mass shootings, it should stop doing something. It should stop prohibiting teachers from carrying into school the same firearms they are licensed and trusted to carry in most other places. It is the path of least resistance to providing realistic protection for schoolchildren. It requires no one to do anything they aren’t already doing.
No, this will not ensure that mass shootings “never happen again.” Nothing will. And not every teacher with a firearm, confronted with the pressure of an active shooter situation, will calmly dispatch the shooter. But as we saw in Parkland, FL, neither will every trained police officer.
No, this will not ensure that mass shootings “never happen again.” Nothing will. And not every teacher with a firearm, confronted with the pressure of an active shooter situation, will calmly dispatch the shooter. But as we saw in Parkland, FL, neither will every trained police officer.
*GOBEARGO*
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Yes of course... We'll all join in taking a knee at the next national anthem.
Bruddah IZ
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Didn't you know that the left wing nutters are the most self informed people they know?
It only takes 1 to fulfill his duty.
Bruddah IZ
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Let's Try Freedom
Thomas Paine began his pamphlet, Common Sense, widely credited with convincing a critical mass of colonists to support American independence, by making a crucial distinction:
“SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.” He went on to say, “Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
It’s time Americans remembered the miracles possible within that blessing called society and the limitations of an institution based on nothing more than consolidated brute force. Mass shootings are horrible situations under any circumstances, but they may be rendered less horrible if the victims have options other than to call the government and wait.
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The government has had its chance. It has failed.
Thomas Paine began his pamphlet, Common Sense, widely credited with convincing a critical mass of colonists to support American independence, by making a crucial distinction:
“SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.” He went on to say, “Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
It’s time Americans remembered the miracles possible within that blessing called society and the limitations of an institution based on nothing more than consolidated brute force. Mass shootings are horrible situations under any circumstances, but they may be rendered less horrible if the victims have options other than to call the government and wait.
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The government has had its chance. It has failed.
He's not an idiot - he knows perfectly well what he is doing.
Bruddah IZ
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with 18% accuracy I'm told
Bruddah IZ
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Just Like Drugs
The first problem is the goal. It is absurdly unrealistic to believe any set of rules is going to prevent anything from “ever happening again.” If you doubt that, I invite you to examine the war on drugs. Many decades ago, politicians decided American citizens taking heroin was never going to happen again. They banned that drug completely. You aren’t allowed to possess or sell it under any circumstances. Not after a background check. Not with a doctor’s prescription. Not at all.
Today, that drug is at the center of what the same government calls an opioid “epidemic.” Epidemic. So much for heroin overdoses “never happening again.”
Yet, despite this evidence, liberals still suggest what they’ve always suggested: further restrictions on gun ownership. A good portion of them believes that only government employees charged with national defense or public safety should be allowed to carry guns. Ban them completely for the civilian population, they say, and mass shooters won’t be able to obtain them.
You know, just like drugs.
Hüsker Dü
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But they think everyone with a gun is instantly Rambo.
Hüsker Dü
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Yeah, coming off like an idiot.
Hüsker Dü
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The goal is to lessen the possibility not exasperate it.
Bruddah IZ
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We and FEE Agree.
Yes I agree. His sworn duty was to protect those kids even if it meant his own life.
But also I imagine this guy was the cop at a school because he was a nice guy, who the kids respected and not because he was they type of cop who was quick on the draw. Cops are people too... and in this case I kinda get it. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
Hüsker Dü
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No guts no glory.
Bruddah IZ
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Cowards normally are.