# Reluctantly — Fuck Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289 "2021-02-19T14:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/541 "2023-05-04T15:24:03Z")
Don’t you mean ‘white people’? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/542 "2023-05-04T15:47:54Z")
Summary ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/543 "2023-05-04T17:10:21Z")
Don’t know if anybody has brought up this nugget: > **[Texas bill proposes up to $25k for school employees authorized to act as...](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-bill-proposes-25k-school-employees-authorized-act-armed-guards)** > > Texas lawmakers advanced House Bill 13 on Tuesday, which would allow stipends of up to $25,000 for public school staff members authorized to act as armed guards on campus. Funny how there’s never any money for teacher salaries. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/544 "2023-05-04T18:25:53Z")
What’re you talking about, pilgrim? With that there rifle, they’ll be larnin’ the children something real good. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/545 "2023-05-04T18:41:01Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > Is there a summary instead of an 11-minute video? A little girl looking for her missing kitten rang the doorbell of a local weatherman/nutjob. Local weatherman/nutjob posted on the internet that people shouldn’t let their kids just ring random doorbells in 2023, and that he’d had his “six” loaded and ready when it happened. Many people responded that this was psychotic, and he kept doubling down on it until, presumably, his employer caught wind and all of a sudden it was, “I was just in a bad mood yesterday, would everyone please forget about how I was completely willing to blow away a small child for standing on my front porch?” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/546 "2023-05-04T19:09:53Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > Is there a summary instead of an 11-minute video? First, sorry for the [one word post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/542), it was going to be the following longer post but got sent by accident. If your question relate to the Beau video, Beau discusses a law in the Texas legislature that requires that certain military grade medical equipment such as tourniquets and compression bandages be available on campus and that at least 2 students grade 3 or older receive training in how to use them. Beau points out that simple classroom first aid training in terms of how to use these is not going to be sufficient for them to be effective in an actual school shooting situation, and that what they are really asking of these kids is to be combat medics, which is a whole different set of training in terms of acting in horrible and stressful circumstances, (which based on his description of what that training entails would IMHO probably amount to child abuse). ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/547 "2023-05-04T22:32:37Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > he kept doubling down on it until, presumably, his employer caught wind What I read was that he’s the owner. He is the employer. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/548 "2023-05-04T23:39:21Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > What I read was that he’s the owner. Yes, he is a meteorologist who founded iWeatherNet, and he operates it. He’s not a local news station weatherman or anything, he runs a web site and Facebook account, and tweets out forecasts for Dallas/Fort Worth as well as Atlanta. The controversial remarks here were put out on the Facebook page he runs for weather stuff. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/549 "2023-05-05T00:07:20Z")
Thank you for the summary! That’s horrific - we’re already offloading the psychic burden of school shootings onto children by conducting often traumatic “active shooter drills”; now they’re supposed to dress gunshot wounds? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/550 "2023-05-05T00:29:09Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > we’re already offloading the psychic burden of school shootings onto children by conducting often traumatic “active shooter drills”; now they’re supposed to dress gunshot wounds? Yep, it’s the 'Murican way! Just don’t let anyone catch you talking about _menstruation_ in school. Might give the kids _ideas_. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/551 "2023-05-05T23:41:56Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Yep, it’s the 'Murican way! Just don’t let anyone catch you talking about _menstruation_ in school. Might give the kids _ideas_. The next _Carrie_ remake is going to have a very different shower scene…. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/552 "2023-05-06T06:14:24Z")
Surprisingly, my current state of Kentucky has zero bans, according to that chart. My native state, Indiana, only had around 5. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/553 "2023-05-06T08:55:10Z")
Actually, I read that chart as 11-25 for Indiana. In the article it says 18 bans in three districts for Indiana. Given the pockets of extreme conservatism in this state I can’t say I’m surprised, in some ways I’m surprised it’s not _more_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/554 "2023-05-07T00:54:25Z")
Another mass shooting in Texas- [Allen Premium Outlets: Police respond to reported shooting in Texas | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/06/us/allen-texas-mall-shooter-reports/index.html) I don’t know why I bother to provide that link, since by the time you get to it and read it there will be yet another shooting to eclipse it. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/555 "2023-05-07T01:36:29Z")
IMO your effort wasn’t wasted. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/556 "2023-05-07T02:39:56Z")
I’m very thankful for the police officer who was at the mall, dealing with something unrelated, who appeared to have “neutralized” the shooter. That’s the nature of police work - he was probably going there thinking he would deal with, for instance, a shoplifter, and instead he did this, which a good cop would not WANT to do. Most officers never draw their guns, and when they do, it’s usually to shoot an injured animal. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/557 "2023-05-07T07:14:08Z")
See what we need are more lenient gun laws. If all of the shoppers were armed then they could have killed him sooner. Definitely should have armed the five year old victim.[\bittersarcasm]. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/558 "2023-05-07T07:46:57Z")
That 5-year old? I’m surprised nobody on the far-right has suggested it’s a good thing he got killed. After all, he very well could’ve have shot his teacher soon enough. Or would the rightists think that’s a good thing too? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/559 "2023-05-07T11:58:39Z")
The only thing that continues to confuse me every time this thread is updated and rises to the top of my queue s why the word “Reluctantly” is (still) in the title. The whole stinkin’ place seems to exemplify all that is wrong with the USA and is a leading indicator of exactly how our future will unfold. The truly horrible thing is that by the time the rest of the USA catches up to where 2023 Texas is today, we’ll still be reeling from the daily news at just how awful e.g. 2028 Texas has become. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/560 "2023-05-07T16:56:32Z")
When I see the word "reluctantly in the thread title, I take that to mean _“I reluctantly **single out** Texas because these things go on elsewhere, but here’s how Texas distinguished itself as one of the nation’s cesspools today.”_ * * * * * * > [@LSLGuy](#): > > The whole stinkin’ place seems to exemplify all that is wrong with the USA and is a leading indicator of exactly how our future will unfold. As a resident in the cesspool since my high school days, I gotta say that the phrase “the whole stinkin’ place” really smarts. Ouch. It’s a big state and every single square inch doesn’t stink. My home, for instance, doesn’t. Other states are in the running… do I need to name them? No, I didn’t think so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=29)