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Earl Richards's avatar

The parents should be in jail for reckless endangerment of their child. Every other parent should sue them for reckless endangerment of their children.

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Leo B Watkins's avatar

Since when did politics become a 4 letter word?

Panicked, knee-jerk reaction is a better option?

We would rather our children exist in prisons, tightly controlled, frisked, recorded, constantly policed? Should we send to North Korea for suggestions?

If doing that were the solution, wouldn't it have worked by now?

Not to sound political, but just about every other government on the 3rd rock from the Sun has figured out how to regulate and control access to guns responsibly. Or at least better than us. As based upon our gun mortality and morbidity rates. At least that's what they showed back when we had a government who still cared about such things. Ahhh, the good ol' days - when math, science, facts mattered...

But right, no politics......apologies.

Incredibly, many of those countries rate much higher on most objective freedom scales than America, as we look to increase our constant monitoring by the state, with people locked up by secret police without due process, living in fear if they speak out, etc.

And as evidenced here, these measures are often implemented with little thought beyond fear, uncertainty, and doubt..

Even when it is admitted, without knowing all of the facts of incident, though we certainly know very well the overall conditions under which it occurred. Because they've been here for a while.

Not like we're inventing cold fusion here.

If you average over 7 guns per man, woman, and child in your country - and you are constantly looking for new and novel ways to increase access and decrease accountability/responsibility until after tragedy occurs - increasing draconian totalitarian measures in areas of learning may not be the best answer. Though it is the one that both those on the right and left seem to most readily agree upon.

Unless what you are teaching your children is fear and dread.

If each home averaged 21 chainsaws in it, would we be particularly surprised if an occasional child was curious about chainsaws and used it improperly?

And since we're talking about it, why are we only worried about the kid having the gun in his backpack once he got to school? Why are we only worried about teachers and students getting shot? If metal detectors are the solution, shouldn't we also install them in stores, playgrounds, street corners?

What's the limit?

Isn't the bigger issue that he has the gun at all?

Why don't we as a community, state, nation - take a breath and both think and seriously talk about it before skipping further down that yellow brick road?

Though I think the word for that would be politics....oh my.

Disregard.

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