Friday Open Thread
Tomorrow is Visual Arts Career Day at SAM.
Visual Arts Career Day is a free event that provides youth ages 14-21 with direct access to visual arts industry professionals through networking, experiential learning, engaging sessions, and hands-on art making in partnership with One Reel, and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture.Also in the same vein:
Participants are exposed to a wide range of career opportunities in the visual arts including a chance to connect with artists, designers, educators, curators, photographers, art advocates, professionals in retail, fundraising, management, arts administration, and more.
Registration Required
Three director community meetings with directors tomorrow, Saturday the 24th
Patu - 9:30-11 am at Raconteur, 5041 Wilson Ave S
Pinkham - 1-2:30 pm at Northgate Public Library, 10548 5th Ave NE
Mack - 1-3 pm at Magnolia Public Library, 2801 34th Ave W.
What's on your mind?
Comments
Please join all of us scared gun toters and counter protest this socialist agenda!
Keep America a free-fire zone as the Founders intended!
Tassle
Stop with the hysterics; very few want to get rid of all guns but we want gun owners to be responsible for their guns.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/... | Broward County Sheriff’s Office Did Not “Miss Warning Signs” or Make “Mistakes”…
Follow the money
MJ 13
the "founders" advocated for the right to bear arms. Reasonable people are advocating a restriction on mass instruments of "war", not on "guns", in which an inexperienced teenager can kill 17 people in under 6 minutes. Should the public and an 18 year old also have easy access to bombs? The data is clear that putting up roadblocks to ownership will reduce mass shootings.
CT
http://www.seattleschools.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=627&pageId=33242209
FNH
Parent
Please respond
HaHa
I think Seattle is doing the right thing in promoting cycling and mass transit.
The soda tax should also save lives, sugar is a danger.
As far as guns, they have as their main purpose to kill and injure. I think if people want to target shoot they can access guns at a range - only at a range.
Cars are used for something other than killing, they are intended to provide mobility, like a walker or wheelchair or bicycle. Hopefully self-driving cars will arrive soon and death from cars will drop dramatically.
BTW, the interweb says 33,000 people died from firearms in 2013, so it's pretty darn close to cars and like I said guns don't provide any useful service, they are DESIGNED to kill.
I know there is a narrative here that nobody wants guns removed from society like in the UK or Australia, but that is wrong. Millions of Americans want a gun free society.
Gun free
There are roadblocks to ownership for which we can advocate. Raising the ownership age to 21 would have some impact. As brain research has illustrated, teens brains are developmentally different than adults & they are more impulsive.
Also, as an analogy, raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 did result in less teen accident deaths. https://report.nih.gov/NIHfactsheets/ViewFactSheet.aspx?csid=21
As you are probably aware, Australia was able to virtually eliminate mass shootings over the past 22 years by banning semi automatic weapons entirely. Although some argue that would not work in the US. Our history and ideology is different and they actually confiscated guns which would likely not happen in the US. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/us/politics/australia-gun-crackdown-trump-school-shooting.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/23/australias-gun-laws-stopped-mass-shootings-and-reduced-homicides-study-finds
Although I believe a majority of Americans would likely support (again) a ban on semi-automatic weapons which we had until 2004. There were issues though with the ban being effective just because we have so many that were grandfathered.
CT
But if you die in a car, it's generally an accident, not a murder. Gun violence is real problem for schools and needs to be checked. Given that this kid could not buy a handgun at his age but an assault weapon means something should change.
And, as others have said, this does not happen in other countries. This is NOT normal and anyone who accepts these mass killings as just part of the price we pay to have guns is wrong. I don't and neither do millions of other people.
NW Patent
GOOD LUCK
JR
JR, I'll have to believe in your zeal that you did not read what you wrote. Your last sentence is beyond offensive, especially to anyone who loses a loved one to violence or disease.
Yes, it does matter.
Get real
Usually the needs of many DO outweigh your need for one thing.
Your questions are just meaningless for this discussion.
CT
GOOD LUCK
17 tears
I hope people in the US will be able to come together to advocate for reasonable and effective strategies you mentioned. Those strategies will make an impact.
CT