Dan Patrick sees the flurry of school shootings as a symptom of America’s moral rot, not a consequence of having 300 million guns around. Maybe if we prayed more, there would be fewer shootings. Tell that to the good folks at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that got shot up last November. Twenty-six people died for no reason. They were praying. They were God-fearing citizens trying to live good lives.
Dan Patrick thinks that the solution to school shootings is to have fewer doors.
Dan Patrick despises public schools. He has been trying to get voucher legislation passed so that every student can go to a religious school, but the Legislature has not agreed with him.
Just listen to the drivel that comes out of him, and you will wonder if we live on the same planet.
He makes me embarrassed to be a Texan.
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He makes me embarrassed to be an American, a human even. With these bought and paid for right wing NRA acolytes, it’s never about the guns, it’s everything but the guns.
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Loot-tenant Governor says it’s WMDs (Way Many Doors) …
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Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot confiscated guns before killing 80 million people. There are many possible reasons for the gun violence and just as many proposed solutions. Blaming a group that advocates responsible gun ownership and whos membership has Not engaged in illegal gun use is not logical or helpful. What do you propose…aside from eliminating the second amendment? Bear in mind that the AR 15 has not been involved in many of these events, bump stocks are illegal in many places and more murders are done by knives, hands/fists…even baseball bats than by guns. What do you wish to tell Lt Gov Patrick? Incidentally, I would never be embarrassed to be a Texan–try living on the blue coast. It is pretty messy.
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“…and just as many proposed solutions.”
How about if you offer a few?
“…and more murders are done by knives, hands/fists…even baseball bats than by guns.”
Right, especially mass murders. You remember that guy that killed 10 people with his bare fists?
Yeah, me neither.
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April trots out all the usual NRA straw men and red herrings arguments. Who the heck is talking about confiscating all guns? No one. No politician that I am aware of is suggesting that the 2nd amendment should be abolished. Even the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teenagers are quick to point out that they support the 2nd amendment and that they are not for confiscation of all guns. April is engaging in hysterical fear mongering, she’s a propagandist. In any case, April and the NRA have a distorted, narrow and skewed interpretation of the 2nd amendment which certainly does allow for rules and regulations regarding guns. The NRA is not just some harmless organization, it spends millions every year lobbying and advocating for the relaxation and loosening of gun laws, it is part of the problem most definitely.
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Worth repeating and repeating: “The NRA is not just some harmless organization, it spends millions every year lobbying and advocating for the relaxation and loosening of gun laws…”
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NRA spokesperson, Dana Loesch, blamed the media for the Santa Fe school shooting.
Dan Patrick, Lt. Governor of Texas (which says something about Texas Republicans), blamed abortions and video games, and lack of religion in schools. He’s a special kind of stupid.
A Republican state representative said school was the problem. “We need to give them as many different choices as possible.” he said.
Hugh Hewitt, who still thinks Trump is a good chief executive, blamed trench coats.
NRA president Ollie North – who subverted the Constitution and helped to sell missiles to terrorists – blamed the “culture of violence” and Ritalin. Isn’t it interesting that that North is the head of the NRA, and the NRA likely funneled Russian money to the Trump campaign?
As the New York Times noted, however, “An ever-growing body of research consistently reaches the same conclusion: The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns.”
With the nitwits, it’s never, ever the guns.
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“He’s a special kind of stupid.”
A very accurate description of little dan.
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“Dan Patrick thinks that the solution to school shootings is to have fewer doors.” Gee, stopping school killings is SO easy. We can have fewer doors, block usage of Ritalin and outlaw trench coats.
This all makes much more sense that having strict gun control laws combined with a strong buyback program. After all, guns don’t kill people. Trump ‘believes’ that and so do most members of Congress. The NRA is buying out our government and is a domestic terrorist organization. Imagine a future where everyone is armed. I shutter to think about how safe we’d all be.
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An even better idea, certain to make schools secure: no doors.
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It’s a shame though, because all these crackpot ideas will have real repercussions in public schools.
There will be trenchcoat bans and single-entrance school buildings and schools bristling with expensive security systems – hours, days and weeks will be wasted on this nonsense along with tens of millions of dollars and it will be wasted IN SCHOOLS, the same schools where all of these politicians cut budgets.
Their priorities for public schools are sometimes adopted. So we get public school policy set by people who don’t support public schools, don’t understand or value public schools, and don’t attend or send their children to public schools.
Public school leaders actually do have some discretion. They might start by not taking advice from people who oppose the existence of their schools. None of these people care about public school budgets or the quality of life for public school students or public school spending priorities. They jam WHATEVER into public schools- they don’t care. If public school leaders DO care (and I think most of them do) then they have the capacity to reject dumb suggestions. Use it.
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As far as schools bristling with expensive security systems, it’s already happening: http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2018/05/police-state-high-school.html
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As I’ve mentioned in these forums previously, it is rare indeed that one sees real genius at work. I thank Lieutenant Governor Patrick for so generously edifying me.
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Betsy DeVos is leading the school safety commission. Betsy DeVos doesn’t value public schools. In fact, she insists “buildings” don’t matter and she lives in a far Right fantasy world where children take a voucher and go off…somewhere, not to a “building” I guess, because “buildings” don’t matter or even exist….
Taking her advice on public schools is nuts. She opposes the continued existence of your school. She has yet to offer a single piece of practical or useful or even remotely RELEVANT advice to any public school anywhere.
Take a pass. Find better advisers.
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Any federal commission comprised of four Cabinet members is a sham. None of them have time to get involved. Their conclusions are already decided.
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Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education and commented:
little dan needs to crawl into a hole and stay there.
https://davidrtayloreducation.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/stop-talking-you-sound-ridiculous/
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Crawling into a hole is one way to get into a building & get rid of the too many doors!
Good idea, drext!
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