# Uvalde, Texas school shooting - the political thread

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036 "2022-05-24T21:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-the-political-thread/965036/304 "2022-05-26T14:28:18Z")

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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> It was years ago, and I can’t find it, but I was told by a gun advocate on these boards that if I were to see people walking into a school with guns slung on their back, I should _mind my own business_ . Calling the police on them would be a form of harassment.

[This one, from December 2016.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-carry-question/775184/49)

> [@Open carry question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-carry-question/775184/48):
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> > [@Open carry question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-carry-question/775184/48):
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> > So, let’s say I see a couple guys going into an elementary school carrying guns, you are saying I should just mind my own business? Why should I care at all, right? I’ll hear about it later on the news, I am sure.
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> > So, just to be clear a last time, you are saying, in plain language, that someone carrying a gun in a gun free zone is absolutely no cause for concern unless they are actively pointing it or firing it at others?
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> Basically. It’s up to you in that moment whether to interpret “guys with guns going into a school” as a threat or an infraction. Perhaps they’re just plainclothes cops on their way to teach DARE? How would you feel you called the cops and they came and gunned down the principal for leaving work early for his hunting trip?
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> Back before mass hysteria, I mean mass media, students and teachers alike would often bring guns to school because they came straight from hunting in the morning, or were heading out that way again after class.
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> There’s nothing by itself that says “man with gun + school = tragedy”.

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