# The tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of school children **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 15, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tree-of-liberty-needs-to-be-watered-with-the-blood-of-school-children/808854 "2018-02-15T02:32:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 226
**Author:** ![Noborry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noborry/32/2564_2.png) [@Noborry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noborry)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tree-of-liberty-needs-to-be-watered-with-the-blood-of-school-children/808854/226 "2018-02-17T05:47:01Z")
" The tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of school children" Not the tree of liberty, it’s the shrub of insanity. The problem is not the easy access to firearms, it is in the underlying psyche of the american people. Access to firepower just makes the events more noisy, more spectacular, and yes _easier_ for those that want to strike out. If they didn’t have guns, they would use knives. Or they would drive a car through a crowd, or they would set fire to the schools. The real problem is that america is sick. no-one trusts their government no-one trusts their police no-one trusts their neighbors and worse, this very mistrust is being lauded as a desirable thing! Just read the absolute vitriol that gets spewed on this board, by weenies hiding behind the anonymity of the internet, and protected by “free speech”". Sorry, but hatemongering should not be free speech. We are teaching our kids that there is no-one they can trust, that conforming to norms is _wrong_, and that the most noble thing they can do is to shout out their outrage against the system. Is it any wonder then, that some of them express this outrage in sociopathic outbursts? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tree-of-liberty-needs-to-be-watered-with-the-blood-of-school-children/808854)._