What they need to be protesting is that the Parkland school shooting should not have even happened, if law enforcement officials had properly done their job. No new laws were needed to prevent that tragedy. Instead they want to place the blame on guns, and the NRA. However, even if I agreed with the message, I still wouldn't agree with it happening while school is in session. Do your protest after school, or on the weekend.
I appreciate your point of view and understand where youre coming from. If you HAD to choose three solutions to reduce gun violence, what are yours? I imagine, because I have read your past posts in this thread, that there will be common ground with a whole lot of us here.
And also, respectfully, jumping off your post. Thinking out loud.
When theres an inability or refusal to internalize events like these, they instead become personalized. (Instead of focusing on the issue, or the bigger picture, they focus on themselves instead.) Sometimes, with some people.
Theres, IMO, a cognitive dissonance. ... A separation from the actual issue.
Theres plenty of blame, but no sense of personal accountability of the larger contribution our own behavior and beliefs have on what happens around us.
It starts to sound like a parody. Ageist. Absolutist.
Yes, tell them all to go to their rooms and think about how entitled and selfish they are for demanding they not be slaughtered by gun violence they have absolutely no control over.
Tell them to go read a book, or to rub some dirt in it and walk it off. Kids these days expect a participation ribbon for just surviving a mass shooting, let alone multiple school shootings. Ya know?
How dare they. Safety is fine, just nimby. Get off my lawn. Get off my gun safe.
Imho, thats what it sounds like when people talk at each other instead of to each other.
It kinda starts to sound like the saxophone adult voices in those classic Snoopy cartoons. It abandons relevance.
MOO
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