Why Aren't They Arming Teachers?

[2aguy]

Our Teachers here have the right to be armed as long as they go through training. None of them are armed. In fact, the schools have deemed it unsafe for Teachers to be armed on school property due to the accidents from other teachers in other schools that were armed. Enmass, they elected to leave the guns home or lock them up in lock boxes. Instead, we use armed security. Colorado went from the #1 Mass Shooting State to the Zero Mass Shooting State after a few simple changes. And we did it without arming everyone.

That is bullshit....


Fears of teachers carrying guns in terms of such problems as students obtaining teachers guns have not occurred at all, and there was only one accidental discharge outside of school hours with no one was really harmed. While there have not been any problems at schools with armed teachers, the number of people killed at other schools has increased significantly – doubling between 2001 and 2008 versus 2009 and 2018.

Schools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns are Extremely Safe: Data on the Rate of Shootings and Accidents in Schools that allow Teachers to Carry

After the Columbine school shooting 20 years ago, one of the more significant changes in how we protect students has been the advance of legislation that allows

papers.ssrn.com

Here’s all the states where teachers already carry guns in the classroom
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Pistol-Packing Teachers Becoming More Common in Arkansas

HEBER SPRINGS, ARKANSAS —

Dale Cresswell keeps his gun on his hip at all times: in his classroom, at sporting events, whenever he’s at school.

Cresswell, head coach to the senior boys’ track and cross-country teams, is one of a small, but growing group of teachers around the United States who are volunteering to carry a weapon. His employer, Heber Springs School District, just came online this semester.

“It was a no-brainer. I have a daughter still in school,” said Cresswell of his decision, acknowledging that he might know any potential shooter. “I see it as, I’m protecting more than one person. I’m protecting all the other students.”

Tests and training

In order to qualify, Cresswell and other faculty, including administrators and IT professionals who can move around more easily, underwent background checks and psychological tests. They continue to go through rigorous training.

“I know that last summer there was a big movement here. We were fortunate that we had made the decision early, and we were able to secure trainers and get our time slot locked in,” said Heber Springs School District Superintendent Alan Stauffacher, noting that some other schools are “struggling” to get set up.

A semester in, the novelty of Cresswell carrying a weapon has worn off. He said that when asked, the students tell him they don’t even notice his gun anymore.

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A study published by Vice News in March found that at least 14 of the 50 states arm teachers and another 16 allow local school boards to decide on the issue.

Here's what Pa. can do to stop the next school shooting | Opinion

Do we need the shooters to spell it out for us? Some have, including shooters at a Charleston church and at a Colorado movie theater.
In diaries and other statements, they have explicitly stated their intentions to avoid places where people have guns. In 2016, a young Islamic State sympathizer planned a shooting at one of the largest churches in Detroit. The FBI recorded a telephone call where he explained why he had picked the church: "It's easy, and a lot of people go there. Plus people are not allowed to carry guns in church."
We don't have to guess about the logistics of letting teachers carry.

In 18 states, teachers and staff are already carrying concealed handguns, though the rules vary greatly.


Utah, with some of the least restrictive rules, has allowed teachers and staff to carry since 1997. There has never been a mass public shooting at an American school that allows concealed carry.


Clark Aposhian, the senior member of Utah's Concealed Firearm Review Board, estimates roughly 5 percent of teachers in his state carry permitted concealed handguns at school.
Aposhian estimates a rate of between 10 percent and 12 percent among support staff . These support staff include janitors, librarians, secretaries, and lunch staff.
Carrying in a school is no different than in a grocery store, movie theater, or restaurant. Over 1.3 million Pennsylvanians have a concealed handgun permit, and nobody knows who is carrying until a need arises. With almost 14 percent of adults having permits, public places are rarely defenseless. Except for schools.
Permit holders have recently stopped dozens of would-be mass public shootings in malls, churches, schools, universities and towns. Still, some people fear the worst. They fear that permit holders won't respond well, and perhaps accidentally shoot an innocent bystander. But that's never happened. Nor has a police officer ever accidentally shot a permit holder.

 

[otto105]

It wasn't war, you dumb ass....these were innocent people, rounded up by their governments, marched into forests and death camps and murdered....they were not collateral damage from combat...they were murdered by their governments....after being disarmed, and promised that giving up their guns would make them safer....

So, giving some arms to the Jews in 1930's Germany would have stopped the Holocaust?

yeah, we should want to have every child in school armed.

 

[otto105]

Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much


How could you even suggest we consider something as useless as banning assault rifles like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called “And Tango Makes Three”? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family.

Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the state’s public libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books. 'Thoughts-and-prayers' ship has sailed: Nashville shooting leaves 3 more kids dead. Don't tell me it's too soon to talk guns.

Don't get me started on drag shows – we must protect the children!

Then there are drag shows, which have not technically “killed” or “injured” or “harmed in any way” a single person, but they pose an obvious existential threat because I want to be quoted on Fox News. We must protect our kids from drag performances, which is why Republican lawmakers in Tennessee recently banned them in public places and anywhere children might be present.

As my colleague Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said at the time: “We don’t put up with that crap in Tennessee, and we shouldn’t. And the rest of the country should follow suit.” Strong words from a strong man who knows when strong action is needed to protect children.

GOP goes after drag shows: Tennessee Republicans target America's greatest threat. That'll save us!

Drag show bans? Sure. Gun violence? Nuthin' we can do about it. And when he was asked about gun violence following The Covenant School shooting this week, Burchett smartly said: “We're not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.” Amen, brother. We can’t go chasing waterfalls when it comes to something as complex as people having easy access to firearms and people using those firearms to kill tons of people, including children. There’s a straight line between those two points, and I’ll be darned if we’re going to waste our time following it when there are more pressing threats, like critical race theory.

When will we act on guns?: How many more students and teachers must die before lawmakers act to stop gun violence?

What if my kid is distracted by critical race theory during a school shooting? Do you know how many children have died from critical race theory this year alone? It is definitely somewhere between zero and a lot. So, it’s good that Republicans lawmakers across the country are fighting to end the teaching of this thing I can’t quite define.

A ban that would keep a powerful assault-style rifle out of the hands of a person like The Covenant School shooter is pointless. But making sure our children aren’t thinking about the history of slavery while they’re hiding from an active shooter is something concrete we can accomplish.

Want fewer shootings?: Pass tougher gun laws. Our research shows lax laws fuel violence.

We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education. The other day, while I was not considering a way to address the frequent and uniquely American issue of school shootings, I came up with a list of the greatest threats our children face: wokeness; Disney; lesbian M&Ms; diversity; equity; inclusion; Renaissance art (aka, statue pporn); the word “gay” and it being said out loud; and probably mail-in voting.

These are all things we can and should ban to keep our children safe. But guns? Who’s that going to help, aside from the people being killed by guns?

No, as Rep. Burchett suggested, we can’t possibly stop school shootings. But we can put a stop to what me and my fellow Republicans see as the most dangerous thing that happens in schools: learning.

 

[2aguy]

So, giving some arms to the Jews in 1930's Germany would have stopped the Holocaust?

yeah, we should want to have every child in school armed.

It would have stopped the nazis from rising to power....they couldn't beat up and murder their way to power when the normal Jews and moderate Germans targeted for those beatings and murders can shoot back.........



You stop them before they take power..........

When democrats use blm and antifa to burn, loot and murder......like the nazis used their brownshirts....... they keep them confined to the cities they control because those democrat controlled cities have extreme gun control.....they can't send them to burn, loot and murder in the suburbs because those people actually have guns.....

For example...

The strange birth of NY’s gun laws

Problem was the gangs worked for Tammany. The Democratic machine used them asshtarkers (sluggers), enforcing discipline at the polls and intimidating the opposition. Gang leaders like Monk Eastman were even employed as informal “sheriffs,” keeping their turf under Tammany control.

The Tammany Tiger needed to rein in the gangs without completely crippling them. Enter Big Tim with the perfect solution: Ostensibly disarm the gangs — and ordinary citizens, too — while still keeping them on the streets.

In fact, he gave the game away during the debate on the bill, which flew through Albany: “I want to make it so the young thugs in my district will get three years for carrying dangerous weapons instead of getting a sentence in the electric chair a year from now.”

Sullivan knew the gangs would flout the law, but appearances were more important than results. Young toughs took to sewing the pockets of their coats shut, so that cops couldn’t plant firearms on them, and many gangsters stashed their weapons inside their girlfriends’ “bird cages” — wire-mesh fashion contraptions around which women would wind their hair.

----Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, were disarmed, which solved another problem: Gangsters had been bitterly complaining to Tammany that their victims sometimes shot back at them.

So gang violence didn’t drop under the Sullivan Act — and really took off after the passage of Prohibition in 1920. Spectacular gangland rubouts — like the 1932 machine-gunning of “Mad Dog” Coll in a drugstore phone booth on 23rd Street — became the norm.

 

[2aguy]

Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much


How could you even suggest we consider something as useless as banning assault rifles like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called “And Tango Makes Three”? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family.

Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the state’s public libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books. 'Thoughts-and-prayers' ship has sailed: Nashville shooting leaves 3 more kids dead. Don't tell me it's too soon to talk guns.

Don't get me started on drag shows – we must protect the children!

Then there are drag shows, which have not technically “killed” or “injured” or “harmed in any way” a single person, but they pose an obvious existential threat because I want to be quoted on Fox News. We must protect our kids from drag performances, which is why Republican lawmakers in Tennessee recently banned them in public places and anywhere children might be present.

As my colleague Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said at the time: “We don’t put up with that crap in Tennessee, and we shouldn’t. And the rest of the country should follow suit.” Strong words from a strong man who knows when strong action is needed to protect children.

GOP goes after drag shows: Tennessee Republicans target America's greatest threat. That'll save us!

Drag show bans? Sure. Gun violence? Nuthin' we can do about it. And when he was asked about gun violence following The Covenant School shooting this week, Burchett smartly said: “We're not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.” Amen, brother. We can’t go chasing waterfalls when it comes to something as complex as people having easy access to firearms and people using those firearms to kill tons of people, including children. There’s a straight line between those two points, and I’ll be darned if we’re going to waste our time following it when there are more pressing threats, like critical race theory.

When will we act on guns?: How many more students and teachers must die before lawmakers act to stop gun violence?

What if my kid is distracted by critical race theory during a school shooting? Do you know how many children have died from critical race theory this year alone? It is definitely somewhere between zero and a lot. So, it’s good that Republicans lawmakers across the country are fighting to end the teaching of this thing I can’t quite define.

A ban that would keep a powerful assault-style rifle out of the hands of a person like The Covenant School shooter is pointless. But making sure our children aren’t thinking about the history of slavery while they’re hiding from an active shooter is something concrete we can accomplish.

Want fewer shootings?: Pass tougher gun laws. Our research shows lax laws fuel violence.

We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education. The other day, while I was not considering a way to address the frequent and uniquely American issue of school shootings, I came up with a list of the greatest threats our children face: wokeness; Disney; lesbian M&Ms; diversity; equity; inclusion; Renaissance art (aka, statue pporn); the word “gay” and it being said out loud; and probably mail-in voting.

These are all things we can and should ban to keep our children safe. But guns? Who’s that going to help, aside from the people being killed by guns?

No, as Rep. Burchett suggested, we can’t possibly stop school shootings. But we can put a stop to what me and my fellow Republicans see as the most dangerous thing that happens in schools: learning.

Who is banning books, you dumb fuck?

The child porn books can still be gotten by democrats we are just trying to keep them out of our schools so groomers can't use them to groom kids....you idiot...

If you want those child porn books you can still get them on Amazon....you moron...

 

[2aguy]

Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much


How could you even suggest we consider something as useless as banning assault rifles like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called “And Tango Makes Three”? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family.

Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the state’s public libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books. 'Thoughts-and-prayers' ship has sailed: Nashville shooting leaves 3 more kids dead. Don't tell me it's too soon to talk guns.

Don't get me started on drag shows – we must protect the children!

Then there are drag shows, which have not technically “killed” or “injured” or “harmed in any way” a single person, but they pose an obvious existential threat because I want to be quoted on Fox News. We must protect our kids from drag performances, which is why Republican lawmakers in Tennessee recently banned them in public places and anywhere children might be present.

As my colleague Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said at the time: “We don’t put up with that crap in Tennessee, and we shouldn’t. And the rest of the country should follow suit.” Strong words from a strong man who knows when strong action is needed to protect children.

GOP goes after drag shows: Tennessee Republicans target America's greatest threat. That'll save us!

Drag show bans? Sure. Gun violence? Nuthin' we can do about it. And when he was asked about gun violence following The Covenant School shooting this week, Burchett smartly said: “We're not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.” Amen, brother. We can’t go chasing waterfalls when it comes to something as complex as people having easy access to firearms and people using those firearms to kill tons of people, including children. There’s a straight line between those two points, and I’ll be darned if we’re going to waste our time following it when there are more pressing threats, like critical race theory.

When will we act on guns?: How many more students and teachers must die before lawmakers act to stop gun violence?

What if my kid is distracted by critical race theory during a school shooting? Do you know how many children have died from critical race theory this year alone? It is definitely somewhere between zero and a lot. So, it’s good that Republicans lawmakers across the country are fighting to end the teaching of this thing I can’t quite define.

A ban that would keep a powerful assault-style rifle out of the hands of a person like The Covenant School shooter is pointless. But making sure our children aren’t thinking about the history of slavery while they’re hiding from an active shooter is something concrete we can accomplish.

Want fewer shootings?: Pass tougher gun laws. Our research shows lax laws fuel violence.

We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education. The other day, while I was not considering a way to address the frequent and uniquely American issue of school shootings, I came up with a list of the greatest threats our children face: wokeness; Disney; lesbian M&Ms; diversity; equity; inclusion; Renaissance art (aka, statue pporn); the word “gay” and it being said out loud; and probably mail-in voting.

These are all things we can and should ban to keep our children safe. But guns? Who’s that going to help, aside from the people being killed by guns?

No, as Rep. Burchett suggested, we can’t possibly stop school shootings. But we can put a stop to what me and my fellow Republicans see as the most dangerous thing that happens in schools: learning.

Yes....you are pushing child porn.....you conveniently left out the actual child porn the democrats are pushing in schools....

Here....let me help you out....


Now......you, you dumb ass....defend these books in public libraries and school libraries....

You defend it.....

 

[2aguy]

Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much


How could you even suggest we consider something as useless as banning assault rifles like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called “And Tango Makes Three”? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family.

Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the state’s public libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books. 'Thoughts-and-prayers' ship has sailed: Nashville shooting leaves 3 more kids dead. Don't tell me it's too soon to talk guns.

Don't get me started on drag shows – we must protect the children!

Then there are drag shows, which have not technically “killed” or “injured” or “harmed in any way” a single person, but they pose an obvious existential threat because I want to be quoted on Fox News. We must protect our kids from drag performances, which is why Republican lawmakers in Tennessee recently banned them in public places and anywhere children might be present.

As my colleague Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said at the time: “We don’t put up with that crap in Tennessee, and we shouldn’t. And the rest of the country should follow suit.” Strong words from a strong man who knows when strong action is needed to protect children.

GOP goes after drag shows: Tennessee Republicans target America's greatest threat. That'll save us!

Drag show bans? Sure. Gun violence? Nuthin' we can do about it. And when he was asked about gun violence following The Covenant School shooting this week, Burchett smartly said: “We're not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.” Amen, brother. We can’t go chasing waterfalls when it comes to something as complex as people having easy access to firearms and people using those firearms to kill tons of people, including children. There’s a straight line between those two points, and I’ll be darned if we’re going to waste our time following it when there are more pressing threats, like critical race theory.

When will we act on guns?: How many more students and teachers must die before lawmakers act to stop gun violence?

What if my kid is distracted by critical race theory during a school shooting? Do you know how many children have died from critical race theory this year alone? It is definitely somewhere between zero and a lot. So, it’s good that Republicans lawmakers across the country are fighting to end the teaching of this thing I can’t quite define.

A ban that would keep a powerful assault-style rifle out of the hands of a person like The Covenant School shooter is pointless. But making sure our children aren’t thinking about the history of slavery while they’re hiding from an active shooter is something concrete we can accomplish.

Want fewer shootings?: Pass tougher gun laws. Our research shows lax laws fuel violence.

We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education. The other day, while I was not considering a way to address the frequent and uniquely American issue of school shootings, I came up with a list of the greatest threats our children face: wokeness; Disney; lesbian M&Ms; diversity; equity; inclusion; Renaissance art (aka, statue pporn); the word “gay” and it being said out loud; and probably mail-in voting.

These are all things we can and should ban to keep our children safe. But guns? Who’s that going to help, aside from the people being killed by guns?

No, as Rep. Burchett suggested, we can’t possibly stop school shootings. But we can put a stop to what me and my fellow Republicans see as the most dangerous thing that happens in schools: learning.

We have solutions to gun violence too...but because it doesn't include going after law abiding gun owners exclusively, you don't want to hear it....

You just want to ban guns...you don't care about school shootings or the gang shootings that are killing 10s of thousands of young black men every year in democrat party controlled cities.....

Those deaths you ignore.....

 

[jbrownson0831]

We have mass school shootings because 1 side consistently shoots down the solution- hardening the schools with steel, locked doors & armed security guards inside.
Hell, arm & train the non-insane teachers inside if they want. If there are any left.

That would stop these shootings overnight & be much cheaper than the cost of the constant shootings.

Aren't our children worth as least as much as our little green fiat paper dollars? They should have the same protection as banks, if not much more.

I wonder why 1 side always shelves this idea to stop the school shootings?
Is it because they actually want them to push an anti-2A agenda?

And take down the Gun Free Zone signs.

 

[2aguy]

Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much


How could you even suggest we consider something as useless as banning assault rifles like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called “And Tango Makes Three”? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family.

Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the state’s public libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books. 'Thoughts-and-prayers' ship has sailed: Nashville shooting leaves 3 more kids dead. Don't tell me it's too soon to talk guns.

Don't get me started on drag shows – we must protect the children!

Then there are drag shows, which have not technically “killed” or “injured” or “harmed in any way” a single person, but they pose an obvious existential threat because I want to be quoted on Fox News. We must protect our kids from drag performances, which is why Republican lawmakers in Tennessee recently banned them in public places and anywhere children might be present.

As my colleague Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said at the time: “We don’t put up with that crap in Tennessee, and we shouldn’t. And the rest of the country should follow suit.” Strong words from a strong man who knows when strong action is needed to protect children.

GOP goes after drag shows: Tennessee Republicans target America's greatest threat. That'll save us!

Drag show bans? Sure. Gun violence? Nuthin' we can do about it. And when he was asked about gun violence following The Covenant School shooting this week, Burchett smartly said: “We're not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.” Amen, brother. We can’t go chasing waterfalls when it comes to something as complex as people having easy access to firearms and people using those firearms to kill tons of people, including children. There’s a straight line between those two points, and I’ll be darned if we’re going to waste our time following it when there are more pressing threats, like critical race theory.

When will we act on guns?: How many more students and teachers must die before lawmakers act to stop gun violence?

What if my kid is distracted by critical race theory during a school shooting? Do you know how many children have died from critical race theory this year alone? It is definitely somewhere between zero and a lot. So, it’s good that Republicans lawmakers across the country are fighting to end the teaching of this thing I can’t quite define.

A ban that would keep a powerful assault-style rifle out of the hands of a person like The Covenant School shooter is pointless. But making sure our children aren’t thinking about the history of slavery while they’re hiding from an active shooter is something concrete we can accomplish.

Want fewer shootings?: Pass tougher gun laws. Our research shows lax laws fuel violence.

We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education. The other day, while I was not considering a way to address the frequent and uniquely American issue of school shootings, I came up with a list of the greatest threats our children face: wokeness; Disney; lesbian M&Ms; diversity; equity; inclusion; Renaissance art (aka, statue pporn); the word “gay” and it being said out loud; and probably mail-in voting.

These are all things we can and should ban to keep our children safe. But guns? Who’s that going to help, aside from the people being killed by guns?

No, as Rep. Burchett suggested, we can’t possibly stop school shootings. But we can put a stop to what me and my fellow Republicans see as the most dangerous thing that happens in schools: learning.

You don't care about gun violence....you want to ban guns...

How do you stop gun violence.....

Easy....

For the vast majority of gun crime in this country.......located in democrat party controlled cities...where the democrats destroy the ability of local police to stop gun criminals...and when they do capture a gun criminal, the democrat party judges, prosecutors and politicians get them released from custody as soon as possible...where they then go on to shoot more people....get captured, and released again, over and over...

Vote out democrats and their policies...

This will increase the ability of police to do their jobs, and will stop police officers from retiring and quiting in the face of constant, destructive attacks by democrats....

This will also prevent democrat party judges, prosecutors and politicans from releasing the most violent and dangerous gun crimnals from prison and jail, over and over again...it is these repeat offenders who are responsible for almost all of the violent gun murder in our country..yet the democrats refuse to keep them locked up in jail and prison and keep releasing them no matter how many gun crimes they commit.

For mass public shooters?

these are the rarest of rare events.......

12 individuals in 2022

74 killed....

Ladders kill 300 people a year
Deer kill 200 people a year
lawn mowers between 90-100 people a year
bathtubs 350 people a year...

Start with public ad campaigns to get information and resources to parents who might have a troubled child........

Get School officials to finally take dangerous children seriously and stop the obama era policy of not having dangerous children arrested even when they commit felonies...

Harden schools......single entry points, blue police alarm call stations.....and arm some staff at each school..

You have no solution....you enjoy when kids are killed in schools because dead children are your best tool for lying to uninformed people about gun crime in this country.....

If we stopped school shootings, you would lose out on your best way to lie to Americans and stampede them into giving you more power...

 

[2aguy]

Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much


How could you even suggest we consider something as useless as banning assault rifles like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called “And Tango Makes Three”? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family.

Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the state’s public libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books. 'Thoughts-and-prayers' ship has sailed: Nashville shooting leaves 3 more kids dead. Don't tell me it's too soon to talk guns.

Don't get me started on drag shows – we must protect the children!

Then there are drag shows, which have not technically “killed” or “injured” or “harmed in any way” a single person, but they pose an obvious existential threat because I want to be quoted on Fox News. We must protect our kids from drag performances, which is why Republican lawmakers in Tennessee recently banned them in public places and anywhere children might be present.

As my colleague Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said at the time: “We don’t put up with that crap in Tennessee, and we shouldn’t. And the rest of the country should follow suit.” Strong words from a strong man who knows when strong action is needed to protect children.

GOP goes after drag shows: Tennessee Republicans target America's greatest threat. That'll save us!

Drag show bans? Sure. Gun violence? Nuthin' we can do about it. And when he was asked about gun violence following The Covenant School shooting this week, Burchett smartly said: “We're not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.” Amen, brother. We can’t go chasing waterfalls when it comes to something as complex as people having easy access to firearms and people using those firearms to kill tons of people, including children. There’s a straight line between those two points, and I’ll be darned if we’re going to waste our time following it when there are more pressing threats, like critical race theory.

When will we act on guns?: How many more students and teachers must die before lawmakers act to stop gun violence?

What if my kid is distracted by critical race theory during a school shooting? Do you know how many children have died from critical race theory this year alone? It is definitely somewhere between zero and a lot. So, it’s good that Republicans lawmakers across the country are fighting to end the teaching of this thing I can’t quite define.

A ban that would keep a powerful assault-style rifle out of the hands of a person like The Covenant School shooter is pointless. But making sure our children aren’t thinking about the history of slavery while they’re hiding from an active shooter is something concrete we can accomplish.

Want fewer shootings?: Pass tougher gun laws. Our research shows lax laws fuel violence.

We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education. The other day, while I was not considering a way to address the frequent and uniquely American issue of school shootings, I came up with a list of the greatest threats our children face: wokeness; Disney; lesbian M&Ms; diversity; equity; inclusion; Renaissance art (aka, statue pporn); the word “gay” and it being said out loud; and probably mail-in voting.

These are all things we can and should ban to keep our children safe. But guns? Who’s that going to help, aside from the people being killed by guns?

No, as Rep. Burchett suggested, we can’t possibly stop school shootings. But we can put a stop to what me and my fellow Republicans see as the most dangerous thing that happens in schools: learning.

Want fewer shootings?: Pass tougher gun laws. Our research shows lax laws fuel violence.

You are a typical, lying piece of crap, anti-gun fanatic....no research shows this.......none....actual research shows gun laws have no effect or increase gun crime...since criminals ignore gun laws....you dope...

 

[Magnus]

It would have stopped the nazis from rising to power....they couldn't beat up and murder their way to power when the normal Jews and moderate Germans targeted for those beatings and murders can shoot back.........



You stop them before they take power..........

..

LOL So, Poland did not have any guns? How about France? How about the Dutch? How about the Netherlands?

Heck, even Russia was almost overrun and all these countries had armies and yet you think a few Jews with their guns could have defeated the Germans?

Let me guess - you went to Trump U? That's the kind of history they teach, eh?