I certainly hope you don’t think I have a double standard on this. And what you posted is not what it sounds like. Well, unless you’re touting the nonsense that the far right are.
Very last sentence you posted, I agree with. However, my post was not about the killers, but about the reaction to the events.
No, not touting that extremist stuff. I stand corrected then. I just thought got a whiff of left wing agenda/double standard from that in relation to what is typically posted on this board (in reference to profiling) and thought it to be slightly hypocritical given the proclivity or tendency of others on the boards to post with an anti-profiling bent.
My apologies if I misread your intention with that statement.
Good day!
^ :rolleyes::dubious:
:eek: NRA was right: it’s safer if everybody is armed !
So it sounds like you’re against sports and you think that black folks are disproportionately criminals. Yeah, somehow I suspect those two ideas are co-morbid for a reason. I can see someone who hates and/or fears the Negro not wanting his kids around stereotypically black pursuits.
I’m probably being unfair. I’m in a foul mood, and I’m just sick of the excuses.
I have plenty of thoughts and prayers for your foul mood; I hope they help. 
Re. Texas Lt. Gov calling for fewer doors on schools. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Blames Santa Fe Shooting On 'Too Many Exits' | This Texas lawmaker blamed the Santa Fe shooting on doors, not guns | By NowThis | Facebook
“We’re going to have to be creative. We’re going to have to think out of the box.” Well how about thinking out of your box by implementing serious gun control? All other first world nations have no problem with this, and across all first world nations gun death rates are directly proportional to the number of guns in the country. So pull your mind out of the locked safe that you keep it in, clean it up by running a solvent swab between your ears a few times, then lubricate your thought process with an oiled swab. Now comes the dangerous part, so be sure to keep your finger off the trigger and don’t point your thoughts at anyone until they are on target. With due thought and care, load you mind up with some well established facts on the correlation between the number of guns and the number of gun deaths. Then once your mind is fully trained and equipped, go back to shooting you mouth off again, only this time be on target in reducing the number of guns, rather than reducing the number of children as your country has been doing.
Well, you can’t think yourself out of the pine box.
Oh yes, reducing the number of exits is the absolute best idea to make our schools safer in an emergency. :smack:
Perhaps we should look at the certain types of doors. Other countries have schools with lots of of doors, and this type of thing rarely happens. If course if you reduce doors, the killers would probably just use windows instead.
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Please tell me that Texans will hold this politician accountable for this exit stupidity.
That’s a great idea, just lay in wait till the kids come out of the very few doors that they’re allowed out of, and pick them off one by one.
Ummmm, just want to say…
That’s a terrible idea, don’t do that.
The Lt. Gov. was probably thinking of doors in terms in terms of ingress, not egress. In my neck of the woods, public buildings often have most doors closed to entry but not to exit. But the kind of sloppy, scrambled thinking that says “fewer doors” is not going to solve this kind of problem.
If gun advocates are allowed to dismiss anything said by anyone that gets any part of gun terminology wrong, then we can dismiss anything said by someone who doesn’t understand doors.
My high school was in a single big building with all doors except for the main one exit only. 50 years ago when I went I soon learned how to insert a wad of paper in the lock so that I could go out, get a bagel, and come back into the computer room. (Before the Watergate burglars did the same thing.) So that would only stop dumb killers.
In my area, the schools are open so there are no doors except classroom doors to lock. Hasn’t increased our death rate at all.
I was in a foul mood when I posted the above too, so no worries.
Just to clarify, I was making a mock up of anothers post to make a point about hypocrisy in profiling, and replying about the sports thing as another solution to avoiding bullying coaches and such. That’s all.
Have a pleasant day.
Kevin Drum notes, “…Santa Fe High School was already considered “hardened”—a word I can barely believe we use to describe schools these days—and had not one, but two armed guards. It didn’t do any good.”
Nicolas Kristoff presents a 3000 word essay with charts on the like on how to reduce shootings. How did he write so fast? He didn’t of course; he and his editors knew there would be another school shooting as sure as the sun rises and they planned accordingly.
Kristoff’s framework is to emulate automobile regulation: auto deaths per 100,000 miles have declined steadily since, oh, 1946. This would involve research: the NRA opposes CDC involvement in this public health issue.
Vox does charts and diagrams routinely. They have an article too:
I see all of this as a heavy lift in the absence of a pro-science, pro-technology gun enthusiast organization. Gun owning rationalists after all don’t like gun deaths either, but they aren’t organized. 77% of all gun owning households support background checks at gun shows and for private sales, but the gun show loophole remains in place, propped by the NRA and its varied membership.
The key is to find ways to disenfranchise the shit-kicking flyover voter. Seriously, people in shit-kicking, fly-over country just need to stop voting. Milk cows or fuck sheep, whatever it is you all do. But for the love of Christ and your fellow man, don’t vote.
No, just an idiot.
I’d recommend you take a look at any of the several moronic statements he’s made, not just about this shooting, but in general, but that might make you despair of humanity.
Not a viable way to win Iowa or Peoria in an off year election.