Another gunman, another elementary school

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Anonymous wrote:Texas Tribune update: it’s now 18 children and 3 adults dead in Uvalde elementary school shooting

And in two days Abbott is going to speak at the NRA conference just a few hundred miles from where this happened. Apparently 18 dead children and 3 dead adults is an acceptable sacrifice for some extra campaign $$.

Where’s the conference?

Houston

So Trump, Cruz, Abbott and 55,000 NRA supporters will be at the George R. Brown Convention Center this weekend?

Yep, and anyone off the street can attend the event (if they join).

I assume firearms of all types are allowed throughout the event?

And I’m sure guns will be banned from the event.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Texas Tribune update: it’s now 18 children and 3 adults dead in Uvalde elementary school shooting

And in two days Abbott is going to speak at the NRA conference just a few hundred miles from where this happened. Apparently 18 dead children and 3 dead adults is an acceptable sacrifice for some extra campaign $$.

Where’s the conference?

Houston

So Trump, Cruz, Abbott and 55,000 NRA supporters will be at the George R. Brown Convention Center this weekend?

Yep, and anyone off the street can attend the event (if they join).

I assume firearms of all types are allowed throughout the event?

And I’m sure guns will be banned from the event.

During the 151st NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, personal firearms may be carried in the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRBCC) in accordance with Texas law. When carrying your firearm, always adhere to all federal, state, and local laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The next time you are at your child’s school notice how easy it is for someone to walk in the door with anything they want.
And never once have I ever seen a suggestion that we try and at least make that change.

There should be no school that has no entrance doors for visitors that open immediately into the actual school building.

All entrances should be double doored. And require being buzzed in twice. ID should be scanned at the door before being buzzed in the first time. The second time along with ID they need to show it again. At least this slows someone with bad ideas down.

Maybe we should just jail the children? To keep them safe, you know!
How can one be so dumb?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The next time you are at your child’s school notice how easy it is for someone to walk in the door with anything they want.
And never once have I ever seen a suggestion that we try and at least make that change.

There should be no school that has no entrance doors for visitors that open immediately into the actual school building.

All entrances should be double doored. And require being buzzed in twice. ID should be scanned at the door before being buzzed in the first time. The second time along with ID they need to show it again. At least this slows someone with bad ideas down.

Maybe we should just jail the children? To keep them safe, you know!
How can one be so dumb?

Yeah, that sounds like high security prison.

Can you imagine that kids in Europe don’t do shooting drills and schools don’t have double doors?

[Anonymous]

Nothing is going to change. Because this is America going backwards, slowly but surely. It IS happening.

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Anonymous wrote:My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.

What is happening to young people today?

We gave them guns and ignored their mental health.

"NBC News: Senator Murphy spoke to reporters as he walked off the Senate floor, saying, "spare me the bullshit about mental illness. We don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world.""

What a lovely human. Voters should be ashamed.

Willing to wager that he’s far, far more decent than you. He had to comfort his constituents who had children murdered at Sandy Hook. What have you done?

+1

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The CEO of NRA who hunts elephants. Perhaps someone should write to him and appeal to his humanity?

This one is the absolute worst.

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Gun violence has become like COVID. We won't do things to save ourselves from it and just live with it.

The unfortunate children of US living in the worst shithole country of the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gun policies are the most readily available policy lever but hardly anyone likes to discuss the root causes of these shootings, namely, the culture of masculinity and glorification of violence. And when these discussions are had too often they are over simplified. It is well documented that many of these school shooters were bullied, had relationship problems with women, and did not meet societal definitions of "masculine." These shooters are trying to reclaim masculinity through violence, and we really should look more broadly at issues of gender expectations and the consider the many boys/young men who are bullied and outcast for not fitting in and the consequences it has.

They were as likely to be bullies as bullied. You are leaving that part out.

[Anonymous]

They’re starting to release the known victims names. 21 dead so far.

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Anonymous wrote:Texas Tribune update: it’s now 18 children and 3 adults dead in Uvalde elementary school shooting

And in two days Abbott is going to speak at the NRA conference just a few hundred miles from where this happened. Apparently 18 dead children and 3 dead adults is an acceptable sacrifice for some extra campaign $$.

Where’s the conference?

Houston

So Trump, Cruz, Abbott and 55,000 NRA supporters will be at the George R. Brown Convention Center this weekend?

Yep, and anyone off the street can attend the event (if they join).

I assume firearms of all types are allowed throughout the event?

And I’m sure guns will be banned from the event.

During the 151st NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, personal firearms may be carried in the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRBCC) in accordance with Texas law. When carrying your firearm, always adhere to all federal, state, and local laws.

If someone got in there and just fired off a couple of blanks, they’d probably all gun each other down and that would be the beginning of the end of this stranglehold the NRA has on our very sick country.

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Anonymous wrote:Texas Tribune update: it’s now 18 children and 3 adults dead in Uvalde elementary school shooting

And in two days Abbott is going to speak at the NRA conference just a few hundred miles from where this happened. Apparently 18 dead children and 3 dead adults is an acceptable sacrifice for some extra campaign $$.

Where’s the conference?

Houston

So Trump, Cruz, Abbott and 55,000 NRA supporters will be at the George R. Brown Convention Center this weekend?

Yep, and anyone off the street can attend the event (if they join).

I assume firearms of all types are allowed throughout the event?

And I’m sure guns will be banned from the event.

During the 151st NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, personal firearms may be carried in the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRBCC) in accordance with Texas law. When carrying your firearm, always adhere to all federal, state, and local laws.

If someone got in there and just fired off a couple of blanks, they’d probably all gun each other down and that would be the beginning of the end of this stranglehold the NRA has on our very sick country.

Where do I sign up?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AR-15 rifles are designed to maim. Tear flesh apart. Can you imagine being identifying your sweet baby who has been torn apart to the point of being unrecognizable?

And elementary schoolers don’t carry IDs, so somebody does have to identify them.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it’s time for one of these families to take the path of Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, and authorize the publication of a photo of what their 4th grader looked like after being shredded to pieces by high velocity semi automatic gunfire leaving the kid unrecognizable for family visual identification. When this country saw what was done to Emmit Till by white supremacist terrorists, it was a turning point. We really need a turning point on gun violence.

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Anonymous wrote:AR-15 rifles are designed to maim. Tear flesh apart. Can you imagine being identifying your sweet baby who has been torn apart to the point of being unrecognizable?

And elementary schoolers don’t carry IDs, so somebody does have to identify them.

This is what is keeping me up tonight. Their grief and uncertainty. Feel like I’m sitting vigil for them. So heartbroken.