This is the thread where I can ask the question, “How long will it take for Marjorie Taylor Greene to claim that this school shooting is fake news”?
Thanks, Ted.
You might also ask how soon before someone in the Texas government says the answer is teachers must open carry while on duty…
Hey, this isn’t the time, it’s too soon. You’re only allowed to try to solve the problem of having a mass shooting every month when it’s at least two years since the last mass shooting.
Apparently minutes — our AG Ken Paxton gave an interview on Newsmax saying the solution is arming teachers. Which is already allowed in Texas.
Too bad the GOP isn’t as focused on protecting the lives of living, breathing school kids as they are on protecting unborn fetuses.
The shooter apparently has a Latino name and presumably darker skin so this is clearly Biden’s fault and never would have happened under Trump.
I believe that etiquette allows that you may immediately suggest that more people be armed to address the problem.
Apropos of which, since the issue of whether people may be armed seems mired in contoversy, how about a bipartisan approach - let’s install the automated sentry turrets from Aliens in schools. They could be posted in every corridor, and the teachers & kids would wear an IFF (identify friend or foe) RFID bracelet. (Having learned our lesson from Aliens, they would also be mounted in the crawlspaces.)
I wonder why there is a big contingent of people who are mostly concerned about solving the ~450 (c. 2020) gun homicides that occur in “fantastical and media frenzy inspiring” mass shootings but seem oblivious or uninterested in the 13,000 other gun homicides that occur.
You’re not far off the mark. I just looked in at a RWNJ message board (in fairness, they’re not all RWNJs, but the majority are), and the shooter had to have been an illegal Mexican. Because, you know, Border Patrol officers were on the scene.
When it was discovered that the shooter was an American citizen, and the Border Patrol officers coincidentally happened to be nearby, speculation turned to whether the shooter was transgender. Because, y’know, he just has that look. (Somebody dug up an Instagram photo purported to be the shooter.)
You cannot make this stuff up. But they are so desperate to pin something, anything, they hate on this guy; that they are doing just that.
Fox News solution:
Armed guards at every school building in America.
Who is that big contingent of people? I’m definitely concerned about both.
The fact he killed children doesn’t seem to bother them in the least.
Well, neither of those things happen in my country of birth (or anywhere other than the U.S. and warzones). From the perspective of those who advocate change, it doesn’t really matter what specific aspect of gun violence motivates a solution that would address both problems. But the probability that the the implacable resistance to any change might soften is perhaps a little higher when something dramatic like this hits the news. But I’m not holding my breath.
Might be because there’s something terrible about seeing 14 kids gunned down while attending school.
There are 30 gun-related homicides that happen each and every day in this country. We’re all just a bit oblivious to these events.
The Republican reaction to a pile of dead children is always: a) how can I deflect any blame from our failed policies, b) how can I use this for my political advantage, and c) how can I use it to suppress the rights of non-whites?
It does matter if your main goal is to shut down discussion about finding a solution.
Well, this forum for starters. I went through GD, P&E, IMHO, MPSIMS and the PIT just now and copied a link to every thread dealing in some way with mass shootings, and here is how many we have had:
I see zero threads from any of those 5 forums with activity in the past month, that appears (at least based on thread title) to be concerned with America’s general homicide problem (which in 2020, meant 13,500 gun homicides, of which around 450 were in mass shootings.)
Because I perceive the forum to be hostile to solutions for most of these homicides and additionally, uninterested. People like what is flashy–even though the continual media hype around mass shootings, very likely costs lives: Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings | PLOS ONE