Another school shooting

[sonofdaxjones]

Welp, the political situation in Washington isn't conducive to get funding appropriated through federal government channels right now.   Well, okay then (insert multi-million dollar endowment/foundation/state agency name here) should just keep funding research on (insert inane extramural research funding project here).

https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/963939574908182528

Trying to think where I said the CDC wasn’t banned from gun research.  No, didn’t say anything the contrary.

When I get a chance Bucket I’ll look up some numbers on the total research expenditures every year at the top 200 research universities.  I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say some scrounge mcduck levels of money can be carved out of those billions upon billions dollars for a definitive level of gun research.  I’m gonna got out a limb and say schools with massive research centers and people can throw plenty of warm bodies at it without the government cheese.

[SkinnyBenny]

Committing mass acts of terror against an unsuspecting public also makes you a terrorist, dumbass

[SkinnyBenny]

stud(ent)

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/opinions/florida-shooting-no-more-opinion-kasky/index.html

[sys]

Committing mass acts of terror against an unsuspecting public also makes you a terrorist, dumbass

no it doesn't.  words have generally accepted meanings, sb, you can't unilaterally change how they are defined.

[Spracne]

RE: the NRA, it's a bit paradoxical, but when it comes to arms makers, there is nothing better than democrats in office and the imagined or real threat of gun control legislation. When pro-2nd-A pubs are in office, arms makers go into bankruptcy. So, is this really about the NRA? Or is this about stupid people?

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[sonofdaxjones]

Rich white guy and Dem Hero Doug Jones, huge 2nd Amendment Guy. 

[catastrophe]

https://www.theonion.com/gorilla-sales-skyrocket-after-latest-gorilla-attack-1819574361

[catastrophe]

https://www.theonion.com/new-school-shooter-drill-includes-practicing-pleas-to-l-1823049024

[renocat]

Is owning a machine gun like gun more important than the life of a child, or anyone else?  No, not any more.

[steve dave]

[gatoveintisiet]

There are roughly 75,000,000 students kindergarten- college in the U.S. each year

[HELLHAMMER]

There's never been a shooting of any kind at a gun show.  Too many people with the means to protect themselves and others I guess.

[kso_FAN]

All gE aside, obviously being aware and alerting to potential dangerous situations can't hurt....trump just has a really bad way of expressing even what are sane thoughts at the wrong time and way.  Will alerting authorities stop all of these?  No.  Could it be abused?  Sure.

Just like sensible gun control laws....will it stop every murder?  No.  Could they be gotten around?  Sure....but shouldn't we try them?  Or are we just going to put it all on fortifying schools and others alerting authorities to potential threats?  Can't it be all of them?

Now can we explore your fortifying schools plan more and where we are going to get this money?

Trump doesn't express anything very well, agreed.

A lot of the security problems is the way schools were built up until the last 5-10 years. They weren't designed in most cases to have just one main entrance that is fairly secure and that is a necessity now. I work in a school built in the 50s and added on several times since, and there are entrances and doors all over. They are all locked, but it doesn't take much to get in if you really want to. We also have a SRO (school resource officer/police) all the time and 5-6 hall monitors. It helps, but there is no fail safe given our current circumstances.

I agree on something sensible for gun laws, enforcement of what already is on the books. steve dave and others have made posts that seem to address this very well, but its such a political football I'm not sure what it will take to really do something about it.

Also, I'm a pretty conservative guy that believes in "thoughts and prayers", but I completely agree that real, tangible action is necessary. To just tweet/post/say that now is so cliche and more has to be done.

[wetwillie]

Is owning a machine gun like gun more important than the life of a child, or anyone else?  No, not any more.

yes it most certainly is

[gatoveintisiet]

There are roughly 75,000,000 students kindergarten- college in the U.S. each year

Of those 75 million 9350 will commit suicide this year

[gatoveintisiet]

There are roughly 75,000,000 students kindergarten- college in the U.S. each year

Of those 75 million 9350 will commit suicide this year

That’s 25 deaths every day of the year

[gatoveintisiet]

There are roughly 75,000,000 students kindergarten- college in the U.S. each year

Of those 75 million 9350 will commit suicide this year

That’s 25 deaths every day of the year

Holy crap, that’s over 168,000 kids since Columbine

[star seed 7]

[420seriouscat69]

 

[The Big Train]

Idk why you would roll your eyes, that’s how you create change wacky.  T’s and P’s don’t just come out of thin air.

[420seriouscat69]

_Fan nailed it above. Getting butthurt over ppl saying T's & P's and also wanting change is a whole new kind of stupid.

[420seriouscat69]

What have you done to create change, TBT?

[Dugout DickStone]

He has thought and prayed

[catastrophe]

There's never been a shooting of any kind at a gun show.  Too many people with the means to protect themselves and others I guess.

There's never been a suicide bombing at an ISIS meeting either.

[420seriouscat69]

He has thought and prayed

He definitely bitched about ppl doing it on the internet. #change