Nancy Bailey writes about the wounds that will never heal, about the unnecessary deaths at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Add to them the still-grieving families of those who lost their children in many other school massacres. Their wounds will never heal.
Bailey writes:
”Even if you don’t live in Parkland, many knew those who did. Maybe you sat on the edge of your seat Wednesday, hoping against all odds that it wasn’t the parent you knew who was going through hell trying to hear a word from their child hiding in the building.
“Yet you still knew in your heart that no matter whose child or staff member it was, whoever didn’t make it out, it was another senseless tragedy. Another one! Another one! Another one! How many children this time? How many teachers?
“How much longer must we subject children to a society that pretends civility, while forcing us all to yield to those with money who force their power of war-like weaponry upon us? Who endanger us all and especially our children? What gives them that right?
“What’s it going to take to get Americans to actually do something to end the violence in our schools and in the country, and to actually care about all our children?
“This isn’t about hunters and rifles. It isn’t even about handguns. It’s about war machinery that has no logical use in a peace loving nation. No use but to kill innocent people.”
Senator Marco Rubio, a favorite of the NRA, sent his prayers.
Governor Rick Scott, who will give the keynote speech at the NRA’s annual convention in Dallas (May 3-6), mourned with the families. What will he tell the NRA? Will he boast that in Florida a teenager can buy an assault weapon but not a beer?
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A Butler County. Ohio sheriff has a solution. He wants every teacher to have a gun,and be trained to use that report was in today’s paper. The sheriff is tired of talk,talk,talk. Also In today’s paper one of the comments from a reader made the same point. The gun enthusiasts are probably all over other local media. I am truly appalled at the glibness of people who think schools will be safer if all teachers were equipped with a gun…and the type of gun is not in the loop of discussion. Imagine this:
Good morning class, I just need a moment to make sure my assault weapon is loaded and ready to use. This is the new way we teachers protect you.
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This undying loyalty by so many on the right to REACTIVE, rather than preventive, solutions argues that we can solve the problem of gun violence in our schools ONLY “after” the fact: once kids, teachers and staff are shot, injured, dead, dying.
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Utah and Idaho already have laws that allow teachers to conceal carry. These are the two things that have happened so far. Notice that NONE of them have to do with “saving kids from gunmen:”
An Idaho college professor shot himself in the foot–during class:
https://idahostatejournal.com/news/local/isu-prof-with-concealed-weapons-permit-who-accidentally-shot-his/article_18228ab2-3383-11e4-af7e-001a4bcf887a.html
And a Utah teacher accidentally shot up a faculty bathroom while adjusting her holster. She was charged with discharging a firearm within city limits, and later resigned:
http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=1787604&itype=CMSID
Some “help.”
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No one in America gets to feel good anymore —
Take that Thoughts And Prayers (TAPs) mantra,
The opioid mass-debaters take to block the pain,
The amnesiac to erase all memory of being sane,
& shove it up their NRASS, where their head’s @.
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A reporter asked Scott yesterday if he would consider banning assault rifles. His response was, “Everything is on the table.” Scott is a manipulative liar. He understands the frustration of many Floridians. Since he is running for the Senate, he does not want to alienate voters so he lies. Considering the millions he receives from the NRA, voters should know he will offer condolences, but no action.
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Yes, Scott is a LIAR, LIAR, LIAR. Lying and committing treason for $$$$$ and power seem to be common in the dump wh.
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Perhaps it would be more effective to ban 5.56mm and 5.45mm ammo. Guns last forever ammo doesn’t.
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Not to be crass, but I bet if you guaranteed every man a full head of hair, 6 pack abs and a couple more inches on his manhood in exchange for guns, there would be a race to turn them back in. Toxic masculinity and power.
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Well, I usually very much like crass, but yours isn’t crass, it’s just plain stupid (and I’ve left out many crass adjectives in that statement.)
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“What’s it going to take to get Americans to actually do something to end the violence in our schools and in the country, and to actually care about all our children?”
Vote out the GOP, and ban the Alt-Right hate and conspiracy theory generating media out of existence. I think the reason for most of the mass shootings in the US is because of the lies from the Alt-Right that stirs up hate and anger among easy to mislead people, the same people that still stand by and support Trump.
Impeach Trump and throw his cabinet members out of OUR government.
Also, throw out anyone, I repeat, anyone, that Trump appointed to any position in OUR government.
In addition, tattoo on Charles and David Koch’s forehead, “You do not own OUR
government!”
Tax the wealthiest 1 percent at a 90 percent rate and send the CEOs and board members of any corporation hiding money offshore to a prison for the working class, not a country club prison, with a sentence of 10 years or more and no parole ever.
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I will post a list of the members of Congress who get NRA $$
It was in a 2-Page ad in The NY Times today
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The real question is, what can we hope to accomplish soon? Surely we can get a ban on bump stocks and a good system of identifying people who do not need to have access to guns. I fear that more than that would have to take a political revolution of sorts.
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From a Florida teacher:
https://foreverymom.com/family-parenting/florida-teacher-on-school-shooting-ill-be-the-one-brave-enough-to-say-it/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=faithfamilyamerica&utm_campaign=cs-20180219&utm_content=fem
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I agree with her wholeheartedly, but I also believe that access to military grade weapons(and paraphernalia) is a huge problem. There were rules about the guns in our homes and one couldn’t walk into the Walmart/Cabelas etc and smack down some cash for a gun that was designed to kill people in a war. It’s true that we have forgotten the “do unto others” motto and it is also true that as the climate in classrooms has changed, so have values….competition breeds nastiness in kids. We live in a strange society that is supposed to be a democracy yet we only think of ourselves. We are in survival mode and the 1% get to decide how democracy matters for them.
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