Anonymous wrote:CNN is reporting that the shooter was known to law enforcement (unclear why) and the father recently told law enforcement that the kid didn’t have access to guns.

So many questions.

Anonymous wrote:If Black male gun owners paraded through every American city with firearms displayed, we would have gun control. Follow that with Latino men.


It happened before.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing will ever be accomplished in terms of gun control, mental health care etc, IMO.

Why are schools not secure?? I think that is what should realistically be focused on. I don’t hear about many mass shootings at courthouses, airports or sports stadiums. Metal detectors for all adults and bags (and students above a certain age), armed officer at every school K-12, fortifying the perimeter and entry points, and improved technology (so much that can be done these days). IMO this is where the focus should be…if we are being realistic

So I have to wait around, get searched, pay for a bunch of people to play security theater just so right-wingers can cuddle up with their emotional security guns? That's messed up.

Yep. Once again: even with all of the mass shootings, how much progress has been made with gun control?! How much progress will be made in the near future? The most realistic guess is: none. None at all.

Realistically, the choice is increased security measures (whether that inconveniences you or not) OR the shootings continue with no reductions.

Or we run hundreds of articles and op ed pieces and shine a big f***ing spotlight on the problem - obstructionist Republicans who would rather let kids die than vote "yes" on firearm regulations. Pick a Republican member of Congress who votes "no" and run 192 articles in two weeks (we know the New York Times can do this) highlighting the a**hole's voting record, money he's received from the gun lobby, and the dead kids he doesn't want to help. Maybe do side stories on the weird gun fetishists with dozens of rifles and handguns. Get real up close and personal with the kind of sketchy weirdos who sell firearm accessories along with Nazi regalia at flea markets.

Anonymous wrote:If Black male gun owners paraded through every American city with firearms displayed, we would have gun control. Follow that with Latino men.


It happened before.

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Anonymous wrote:This is terrible. However, we should start labeling them post-birth abortions and maybe it'll get the attention of the deplorables.

ha

+1

They care so much about a bunch of cells but not about actual living, breathing, thinking children going to school.

Anonymous wrote:Washington Post has been tracking gun violence at school (the federal government, in yet another mind-boggling failure in this area, doesn't even track this). Nearly 400,000 students have experienced gun violence at their school since Columbine. This includes kids who died, were injured, witnessed violence, or cowered in closets or bathrooms to hide from the shootings on the other side of the door.

Untold numbers of schools schools have also had false alarms -- not drills, but actual lockdowns that are triggered, leading the school and students to believe that it's their turn. (My own kid had one of these. She hid in the closet and texted me that she loved me).

And of course EVERY kid has done drills, countless drills, in each one imagining the moment someone enters their place of learning to hunt them like an animal.

Nobody wants it this way. No one. Not even the A-rated-by-the-NRA cowards in congress. Eventually, the politicians will crack. It will be harder to do nothing than it is to make change. Once a few shift, most will. We will look back on this time, and see it for what it was, and is: madness.

Anonymous wrote:Gun control isn’t the problem. A 14-year-old can’t purchase a gun. The parents failed in this situation by not properly storing their guns. No 14-year-old should be able to easily access a firearm.

Anonymous wrote:Arrest the parents every time. Maybe some parents will atop being so reckless with their firearms.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with boys?


Girls don’t do this

The Nashville school shooter?

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine sending your child to school and that's the last time you ever see them.

The news reported a text to a mother from a 16 year old student huddled with her classmates during the shooting that said, "I know I have not been a perfect daughter. I love you. I'm sorry."

This is heartbreaking. I hope we learn she survived and is physically uninjured. The psychological effects will be life long.

Didn’t Youngkin just ban cell phones in schools so Virginia parents wouldn’t even have a “goodbye?”

Do you even hear yourself? You’re mad because kids might not have their cell phone in case somebody comes into shoot them because it’s so freaking common place. think about that.

Anonymous wrote:Gun control isn’t the problem. A 14-year-old can’t purchase a gun. The parents failed in this situation by not properly storing their guns. No 14-year-old should be able to easily access a firearm.

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Anonymous wrote:Epidemic of mental illness.

This is the real problem. Need to send our mentally ill abroad, after all we are taking in everyone’s misfits, only fair to return the favor.