Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 14:26     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:

DP. No, the women's marches made women look silly and weak. They served no purpose but to trash up the mall. Women need to be serious to be taken seriously.


Your opinion of large groups of women (and men) in hand-knit bright-pink hats is really irrelevant to this thread and this topic.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 14:23     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Women's March organizers announced a nationwide school walkout on March 14 at 10 a.m. (local). They're operating under #Enough. I don't know if Facebook pages can be linked here, but will try: https://www.facebook.com/events/1767175080245694/


Please not this group again. Enough with the vaginas - it's become a laughingstock.


You are sure bothered by those vaginas. Seems like they were pretty effective if you’re still triggered by them today.



VAGINA!



DP. No, the women's marches made women look silly and weak. They served no purpose but to trash up the mall. Women need to be serious to be taken seriously.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:38     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We need to shame gun owners just as slave owners were shamed. ALL gun owners are part of the problem. The 2nd amendment should be repealed.


I believe in safe responsible screened gun ownership but you make me an ally of the NRA.


If you are a gun owner who does not speak against the NRA, then you are in fact an ally of the NRA.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:36     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Never was a statement more true- thank you pp for sharing it. I’m going to move to Baltimore or Chicago, where I’ll be safe.

Again, if we continue spewing these lies, we will never ever find a solution. STOP calling gun owners murderers and recognize we all want the same thing- to protect our families. We have the same goal! We vehemently disagree how to achieve it but if we can come to this realization, we can find some solutions. I am a gun owner and an NRA member and I don’t want dead children, anywhere. Not in schools, not in churches, not in city streets.


Like what? A great majority of NRA members support background checks and a ban on bump stocks. Do you? If so, you should tell the NRA, because they oppose both.


The NRA absolutely does support background checks and we have mandatory background checks on all purchases. The NRA supports the laws on the books and they should be aggressively upheld. As for bump stocks, the NRA said that this issue should be closely looked at by ATF to see if they constitute a modification or not. If so, they should be illegal.


No, the NRA does not. The NRA does not support background checks. The NRA does not support the laws on the books, or aggressive enforcement of the laws on the books. And the NRA does not support a ban of bumpstocks.

But never mind the NRA -- do you support background checks and a ban on bumpstocks? Or if not, what solutions do you support?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:35     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Would teachers get paid while on strike? Hope not!


I am totally willing to give up pay while I strike. I have a lot saved and would be fine. For the safety of my own children and for the safety of my students I love, hell yes. A few days or weeks of pay isn't going to matter to me or most teachers.


Seriously?

I’m mean really?

I completely disagree, especially with what I put in bold.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:34     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We need to shame gun owners just as slave owners were shamed. ALL gun owners are part of the problem. The 2nd amendment should be repealed.


Ok- but can we please make an exception for my African American neighbor, who is a descendent of slaves and a responsible gun owner? Pretty please?

Again, whoever you are, you have no real desire to keep us safe. If you did, you’d quit villifying millions of law abiding
Americans who happen to have children at the very same schools you do.


At this point, I'm going to say that you're not a responsible gun owner unless you support actions to keep guns away from irresponsible gun owners. Any responsible gun owner who does not do this is part of the problem. The NRA is claiming to speak in their name. They need to say that the NRA is NOT speaking in their name.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:28     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:Would teachers get paid while on strike? Hope not!


I am totally willing to give up pay while I strike. I have a lot saved and would be fine. For the safety of my own children and for the safety of my students I love, hell yes. A few days or weeks of pay isn't going to matter to me or most teachers.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:27     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kid's teachers to strike. He's a senior and has five AP exams to prepare for.

And I don't think it will make one bit of difference if they strike. It's not going to make our so-called representatives care.


Or maybe it will push parents like you, who care about AP classes for your kid, to take some ACTION. YOU should be striking. YOU should be doing something.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:25     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
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Anonymous wrote:Why is the responsibility and onus for something like this on teachers? They're OUR children Isn't it enough that we expect teachers to magically turn neglected children into geniuses? Now we expect them to magically fix political problems too?


Ahem, no one is expecting this. Sounds like something a few blowhard teacher's union types are advocating.


I am a teacher. I am not a blowhard union type. I am advocating that all educators and people who care about students and schools walk out of schools, jobs, churches, mosques, temples, etc. I'm advocating for a no spending, no working, shutting down the damn economy until we can get some basic gun control (ie, no more purchasing of automatic or semi automatic weapons and legal consequences for those who sell, buy or own them). I am damn tired of hiding in closets or in my classroom with my 6 year olds during drills.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:21     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:You anti-NRA people ar3 barking up the wrong tree. A highly visible target, but the wrong one.


I'm fairly conservative, often vote Republican, don't have a gun but have friends who do and who hunt, etc. Something needs to change, and the NRA could take this opportunity to lead the change--so that large groups of people (in this case, children) aren't mowed down by someone with the type of weapon used by Mr. Cruz. There is no reason for anyone to need that kind of weapon, and I keep hearing a bunch of jargon being spewed on radio and TV by Republican politicians. It's really shameful.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:06     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:We need to shame gun owners just as slave owners were shamed. ALL gun owners are part of the problem. The 2nd amendment should be repealed.


You’ve lost the right to be taken seriously.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 13:04     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
You anti-NRA people ar3 barking up the wrong tree. A highly visible target, but the wrong one.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:59     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Have any of you even been to red states? All my teachers in school would sooner have striked in SUPPORT of gun rights.


That's because northern states are so much safer. Guns aren't allowed there, and criminals ("mere children") know not to use the guns they've quietly acquired.


I dare you to be less coherent


I dare you to understand sarcasm.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:59     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:We need to shame gun owners just as slave owners were shamed. ALL gun owners are part of the problem. The 2nd amendment should be repealed.


Ok- but can we please make an exception for my African American neighbor, who is a descendent of slaves and a responsible gun owner? Pretty please?

Again, whoever you are, you have no real desire to keep us safe. If you did, you’d quit villifying millions of law abiding
Americans who happen to have children at the very same schools you do.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:56     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most teachers would not go along with this. Perhaps I'm jaded, but public school teachers who really care are few and far between. They would only do it if:

1) they continued to get paid during the strike or back pay once it's over,
2) they are guaranteed to get their jobs back after the strike.

In other words, only if it benefits them personally.


Wouldn’t those two items apply to anyone and not just teachers? I wouldn’t want to do that (not show up for work for some social cause) either if I would lose my job or even weeks of pay. I don’t think that’s selfish.


+1 of course