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Someone apparently asked if the school had metal detectors.

A cop responded no, it’s a safe space.

What better way to make your kids’ school a target?

It’s a small k-12 private, 30 kids per grade. None of the similar schools in this area have metal detectors.

Does any school around here have any metal detectors?

We're at a K-12 school about twice that size. No metal detectors, but other security features like the double doors that I know our area public school district has made a huge deal about investing in as a security measure. Over the past several years our private school has made school safety an area of focus. I mean they kind of have to, right?

But if the shooter is a student already inside the school then the double doors don’t matter. Those only help if it’s an outside party, and if your kids’ school has an outdoor playground then it won’t even help at all during recess.

I was really hoping all the would be school/mass shooters would see how beloved Luigi is and change their target. Maybe the rich and powerful will care when it’s them on the line. Until then these kids and teachers are just fodder to the gun lobby, the price we all have to pay so people can stock up on guns!

Obviously our school (and all the publics installing double doors) won't enforce our existing laws, put in place compromise new ones, and change our culture so that nobody likes any shooter (sorry, even Luigi being beloved is INSANITY). But my point is that some small privates and big publics and everything in between are at least trying to do whatever they can.

Please make a separate thread for the political debate. There's plenty of room on DCUM

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Anonymous wrote:Who told you, 14:18, that most older people are Republicans?

Is that because Republicans are happier people, enjoying their families?

Well that's certainly not the case...

Because older Democrats are more inclined to be radical activists, rather than spending their golden years with their families.

Yeah, all the people I know who are estranged from their parents is because their parents went hardcore MAGA/racist/homophobic. Liberal grandparents aren't alienating their kids.

I had thought (hoped) we were moving on to CEOs!

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Anonymous wrote:Not really surprising. There’s a an absolute TON of hatred out there for Christians now.

Not surprised to see this at all.

What? This wasn't an outside shooting. A Christian student shot other Christian students.

Don’t be stupid. Tons of kids reject their family’s faith.

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Anonymous wrote:Who told you, 14:18, that most older people are Republicans?

Is that because Republicans are happier people, enjoying their families?

Well that's certainly not the case...

Because older Democrats are more inclined to be radical activists, rather than spending their golden years with their families.

Anonymous wrote:Not really surprising. There’s a an absolute TON of hatred out there for Christians now.

Not surprised to see this at all.

What? This wasn't an outside shooting. A Christian student shot other Christian students.

Anonymous wrote:Who told you, 14:18, that most older people are Republicans?

Is that because Republicans are happier people, enjoying their families?

Well that's certainly not the case...

Not really surprising. There’s a an absolute TON of hatred out there for Christians now.

Not surprised to see this at all.

Who told you, 14:18, that most older people are Republicans?

Is that because Republicans are happier people, enjoying their families?

Anonymous wrote:Will the Rs care now that it happened at a private religious school? Probably not.

None of our kids are safe from this. Public. Private. City. Suburb. Elementary through HS.

Nothing will change, but I can’t wait to hear more arguments about why we should all be mourning a CEO when we don’t even do a damned thing about children getting killed.

I hate everything about this and if you think we shouldn’t even try to pass laws because shootings will happen anyway then you’re an absolute moron because why have laws at all if they are going to be broken? Do you think we should also give up on stopping drunk driving or bank robberies?

Cue all the idiotic arguments as to why it’s “too soon” or “guns don’t kill people.” I’m sure that will console these families with one less loved one to open gifts with on Christmas morning.

I read an article about the Baby Boom generation, and how they are the only generation based on a study, who don't find enjoyment in watching their children and grandchildren enjoy their inheritance. The Baby Boom generation wants to spend all of their money while they are alive on themselves, and they don't find enjoyment, as much as GenXers and Millennials, at the idea of seeing their children and grandchildren enjoying an inheritance.

It's like family abuse. We have to accept that grandma and grandpa put great grand ma and great grand pa in the nursing homes and enjoyed spending their money through a great wealth transfer. And then they put Little Johnny and Little Suzie in a day care center.

We're asking older people today, who are mostly Republicans, to actually care about someone other than themselves. And no, protesting the Vietnam War doesn't give you a pass on this issue of gun control. Marching for Civil Rights doesn't give you a pass on this issue of gun control.

Not yet certain if the killer kid shot himself, which never happens, OR if a trained adult in the school used his OWN weapon to take down the shooter. Wow.

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Someone apparently asked if the school had metal detectors.

A cop responded no, it’s a safe space.

What better way to make your kids’ school a target?

Wow, that dumb response really gets at the heart of the problem. And I bet that cop was being sincere.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Someone apparently asked if the school had metal detectors.

A cop responded no, it’s a safe space.

What better way to make your kids’ school a target?

It’s a small k-12 private, 30 kids per grade. None of the similar schools in this area have metal detectors.

Does any school around here have any metal detectors?

We're at a K-12 school about twice that size. No metal detectors, but other security features like the double doors that I know our area public school district has made a huge deal about investing in as a security measure. Over the past several years our private school has made school safety an area of focus. I mean they kind of have to, right?

But if the shooter is a student already inside the school then the double doors don’t matter. Those only help if it’s an outside party, and if your kids’ school has an outdoor playground then it won’t even help at all during recess.

I was really hoping all the would be school/mass shooters would see how beloved Luigi is and change their target. Maybe the rich and powerful will care when it’s them on the line. Until then these kids and teachers are just fodder to the gun lobby, the price we all have to pay so people can stock up on guns!

Exactly. My kids survived school shooting. The killer was a student at the school. He was just "late for class".

Anonymous wrote:Will the Rs care now that it happened at a private religious school? Probably not.

None of our kids are safe from this. Public. Private. City. Suburb. Elementary through HS.

Nothing will change, but I can’t wait to hear more arguments about why we should all be mourning a CEO when we don’t even do a damned thing about children getting killed.

I hate everything about this and if you think we shouldn’t even try to pass laws because shootings will happen anyway then you’re an absolute moron because why have laws at all if they are going to be broken? Do you think we should also give up on stopping drunk driving or bank robberies?

Cue all the idiotic arguments as to why it’s “too soon” or “guns don’t kill people.” I’m sure that will console these families with one less loved one to open gifts with on Christmas morning.

That! if it had been another CEO killed, policy makers would notice and perhaps, just maybe, do the tiniest something to help us. But no- not for another school shooting.