I can't help thinking - all these things: bullet proof blankets, bullet proof white boards, back pack bans.... They are all so much window dressing. Not to mention how ABSURD it is to even have to THINK about doing this stuff!
It is SO difficult to discuss these incidents without mentioning guns. But to ignore it feels like sticking heads in the sand and pretending not to see and hear. The gun control thread itself goes nowhere, because it is devoid of the human element these cases bring, and is argued at solely a pokitical and philosophical level.
But pie in the sky politics means nothing when confronted with the dead bodies of children.
It's AWFUL.
When I went to high school it was the height of the gang wars, and my high school was rife with violence. But as bad as it was, the criminal element NEVER endangered the population at large. Honor among thieves and all that, I wonder? Even drive bys, at least back then, were not random. No one felt unsafe just walking to the store or sitting at home... Or siting in CLASS!!! And as bad as it got, no metal detectors and no backpack bans...
I don't know, just rambling. Give me a gang banger any day over these suburban and rural kids with guns - even a gang banger knows it's weak sauce to kill innocent kids.
Cripes what a society we've become. Even duck and cover couldn't have been this damaging to kids' psyches as these lockdown drills must be.
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