Is This Your Child's Next School Day?
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- First charter school shooting
- First K-12 school which means - look to the right - very little kids. (Not that teens are any better equipped but that face says it all.)
- Second time in recent weeks an 18-year old student sacrificed his life to stop a shooter.
- There were two shooters and one was a female student.
The first 18-year old killed was Riley Howell at the University of North Carolina Charlotte . He took two bullets and tackled the shooter before the shooter fired into his head. But the shooter didn't hit anyone else after that.
Now, it's Kendrick Castillo who was days away from graduation.Lauren Westmoreland, Riley's girlfriend, said she and Howell had discussed marriage. She said she was devastated by his death."Just tell people you love them," she told "Today." "The last thing that I got to say to him was that I loved him."
"Kendrick lunged at (the gunman), and he shot Kendrick, giving all of us enough time to get underneath our desks, to get ourselves safe, and to run across the room to escape,” senior Nui Giasolli told NBC News on Wednesday morning. Other students helped Castillo tackle the shooter, classmates said.
Do something. Do it today. Because for our nation, there IS nowhere safe at all.
I volunteer in a kindergarten class and I have a plan if someone comes to our school with a gun. It likely means I will die but I'm 60 and have had a life so giving it up for 5/6 year olds doesn't seem like a bad trade-off. And teachers and administrators and staff have to worry every single school day.
But why do I or anyone in any school building have to worry about this?
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Mom
What I would like is that gun owners have to get insurance and anything that happens with their guns (if not stolen by someone they don't know), they are liable for.
I suspect people would be a lot more likely to lock up their guns so at least kids can't get at them.
Semi automatic weapons have been widely available to the public for over 120 years. Why are they suddenly a problem? How in the world would you collect up the tens of millions of them that are owned by US citizens?
I think you need to look elsewhere for the root cause of mass violence in America.
Civil Rights
It's the culture of these guns that's partially responsible for the belief that guns actually solve problems. "Self defense," "personal protection," "defense against tyranny" blah blah blah as thousands die each year, including our children in our schools.
I agree with Melissa - registering guns, their ammo, creating smart guns, and holding owners responsible for the murders their guns commit would help.
Libs
However, we do require insurance on cars because they can be deadly vehicles. Owning a gun may be a right but rights come with responsibilities.
As the NRA is slowly losing ground (thanks for March for our Lives), I think state-by-state, it's quite doable.
When will people understand that criminals do not follow laws.
Libs
https://www.axios.com/background-checks-lower-gun-death-rates-ec344de4-4976-4195-abfc-827241180d9a.html
While the average gun death rate nation-wide is "only" 11.8 deaths per 100K people, the range is actually dramatic: from 3.4 deaths in Massachusetts or 4.5 in Hawaii to 21.3, 21.5, and 23.3 in Louisiana, Alabama, and Alaska.
Human beings are far safer in terms of gun deaths if they are living in states with even minimal gun control laws. Gun control makes human being safer and it doesn't impact any mentally healthy person's "right" to own a firearm.
Of course, these are data scientifically collected from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and analyzed by Axios, which is a centrist news source that has never failed a fact check by FactualSearch.news. I therefore expect none of this information will be persuasive because:
U♥Guns
Not all gun owners are big babies like the NRA trolls.
GunOwner
Not doing anything means we are supporting the killings.
- Wecanstopthem!
GunOwner
Many of the school shootings are done by kids with mental health issues. That's something that needs more help and fast. But how do those kids get the guns?
The comment about criminals, sure that's true. But if you make the owners of the guns financially liable for outcomes, well, those gun owners will snap to. Nobody has to go to jail but they will get a huge fine.
NOTHING gets people's attention like threatening their bottom line.
It's sobering.
Mr. Theo Moriarty
I have not heard about the personal profiles and backgrounds of the two suspects in Colorado, as I don’t think those details are yet known. But one of them did obtain two weapons from his parents, who had supposedly purchased them legally. That was from a CNN article today.
Signed - Let’s talk
Have you considered taking this post down after the kids' walk-out last night, stating that they don't want to be used as pawns in a political debate?
SP
Would you expect me to go to jail if a person broke into my house and grabbed my car keys then used my car to murder someone?
The odds are much grater that my car will be stolen and crashed killing someone than my guns being used in a shooting.
Oh and the vast majority of gun deaths are from self-inflicted injuries.
Libs
Libs, I said if your gun is used by someone you know (meaning, not stolen) so naturally, you are not responsible if either your car or gun is stolen.
"Your odds are grater" - well, that would certainly hurt more if you used a grater.
And again, if gun owners lock up their guns - fewer suicides and fewer small kids killing each other because mom and dad are less than careful.
Fact is it is far too easy for anyone (including teens with impulsive brains that don't mature until age 25) to have access to a type of weapon that can kill many people in seconds. That is very dangerous.
Mom