Active shooter in Uvalde

[SharpEnd]

Three years ago Democrats blocked federal funds for arming and training teachers:

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-03-14/democrats-seek-to-block-federal-funds-to-arm-teachers

Yet they are real happy to send a total of more than $54 billion to Ukraine.
Their priorities are of political convenience. Now they'll focus on gun legislation, once again ignoring the root causes of our issues.

[Hollywood]

Big Problems

Lack of Parenting
No consequences for bad behavior
Lack of discipline at home & in school
Drugs, Drugs, Drugs

Possible corrections

Let parents be parents
Let schools discipline students for disruptive behavior
Arm teachers & school security staff
Set necessary perimeters to block unlawful entry into school grounds.

[jaime1982]

#3 US has more freedom than anywhere else in the world. With freedom comes responsibility....to protect our schools. Our crooked politicians should have used that covid hoax money and the Ukraine hoax money to make schools more secure.

This is the key, not every other county has freedom like we do.

[squirrel]

Where did he get the $5K for the guns?

[flywise]

Just start @ 47 seconds. i see more mass shootings in the future because no one tells these folks to **** off
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[Ouch]

BS. It’s not the guns fault. That same rhetoric has been played out too.

I don't disagree with you.

Surely, though, you can concede that something needs to be done, somewhere, somehow?

[Maddox]

Where did he get the $5K for the guns?

^

[SharpEnd]

Where did he get the $5K for the guns?

Credit cards are too easy to get as well, another one of our problems in the consumer-driven culture. Also a problem that a parent could have prevented. Still no reporting about his parents - he lived with his grandparents.

[PondPopper]

Violent video games is the cause. Laughable!!

My son played (and still does to an extent) every call of duty, GTA and shoot your *** off game ever put out with a slew of buddies from high school. Half of those kids traveled the state with show animals, a competitive shooting team and a welding team. Sometimes the x-box went with them cause they got taped in the room. They weren't allowed to run up and down the hallways of the hotel trying to find beer like we did when I traveled with FFA

Three just launched a deal to work with ranches to book hunters, one runs a shift at a fab shop after going to tulsa welding school and another moving to ATM this school year. Mine scored 5 figures a year in out of state tuition in academic and shooting scholarships. Shot sporting clays in 5 states and competed for a spot on the Olympic team. Hes maintained a 3.5 GPA despite being dyslexic and 13 hours from home. Still has time to build his own lures and is refinishing a boat he helped buy with his own money. In a few weeks he will be an archery/shotgun instructor for a youth camp on large ranch outside San Antonio

Out of this group of kids, one is old enough to buy beer. Ive taken all but one hunting or fishing and would do it again tomorrow. And let them borrow a gun to do it.

But what do I know, Im apparently ignorant parent who let a video game raise his child

Violent video games serve absolutely NO valuable purpose in this world we live in(0)and if you think they do please name just one of these valuable purposes... Just one.
They do create monsters in some instances. Denying this is just dumb..
Some kids obviously can handle what playing these do to them mentally, psychologically, but some kids cannot.. And it does affect ALL kids to some degree..
I will never understand why any "responsible" parent would let their child play this garbage and I have family members that do. It's totally irresponsible..

[brokeno]

Why the US leads in mass shooting is the way our kids are being raised. There is no discipline and no fear of any consequences for their actions. just look at the role models these days these kids have to look up to. Look at Biden's appointees. They all are sick with mental illiness and that is who is suppose to be directing our country. Schools went to hell when they were forced by a few to stop prayer in school. Same thing happen to discipline in school. Kids need their butts smacked every one and a while and discipline.

[TexasBob]

Violent video games serve absolutely NO valuable purpose in this world we live in(0)and if you think they do please name just one of these valuable purposes... Just one.
They do create monsters in some instances. Denying this is just dumb..
Some kids obviously can handle what playing these do to them mentally, psychologically, but some kids cannot.. And it does affect ALL kids to some degree..
I will never understand why any "responsible" parent would let their child play this garbage and I have family members that do. It's totally irresponsible..

This is basically a gun control argument…. Everyone loses rights because some can’t handle it? Flawed logic at best.


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[Artos]

Starting to see reports that he was bullied / made fun of the way he dressed growing up & was becoming more erratic / violent tendencies as of late...my bet is we'll see yet once again there were plenty of flags, but just didn't get the mental health needed.

[BlackHogDown]

The answer to your question is yes. Yes this only happens in the US. Here’s a list of total school shootings 2009-2018. US had 288. Next highest was Mexico with 9. No that’s not a typo.

These numbers are intentionally inflated. Here are some examples from 2018, specifically. Already we've surpassed the number 2 on the list with these incidents that don't fit the common definition of "School shootings." This is how they justify taking away you're rights. Faulty data. Sound familiar? *cough* "Covid!"



"* April 12, Rayton, MO: Someone fired a gun in the parking lot of a track meet, and a man was wounded.

* April 9, Globersville, NY: A student shot another student with a BB gun.

* March 13, Seaside, CA: A teacher accidentally discharged a firearm during a public safety class. No one was killed.

* March 8, Mobile, AL: A non-student was shot at an apartment on the University of South Alabama campus.

* March 7, Birmingham, AL: Two students were shot accidentally during dismissal time at a school.

* March 7, Jackson, MS: A student was shot at a dorm at Jackson State University.

* March 2, Mount Pleasant, WA: Two non-students were shot at a dorm at Central Michigan University – and police blamed a domestic dispute.

* February 27, Norfolk, VA: A student at Norfolk State University was apparently accidentally shot from an adjacent dorm room.

* February 27, Itta Bena, MS: A non-student was shot at a recreation center at Mississippi Valley State University.

* February 24, Savannah, GA: A non-student shooter shot a non-student victim on the Savannah State University campus.

* February 9, Nashville, TN: A 14-year-old shot a 17-year-old in a targeted murder attempt in a parking lot of a school.

* February 5, Oxon Hill, MD: Two teenagers shot a third teenager in a robbery attempt outside a school.

* February 1, Los Angeles, CA: A 12-year-old girl accidentally shot two 15-year-olds.

* January 31, Philadelphia, PA: A 32-year-old non-student was shot outside a high school after a fight.

* January 20, Winston Salem, NC: A college football player was shot to death on campus at a party.

None of these events meet the more typical definition of a school shooting: a multiple-murder attempt on a school campus directed at children. CNN merely broadens the definition to include typical murders that happen to take place on school campuses, or in parking lots, or including non-students. "

Source:

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/05/ben-shapiro-says-cnn-lied-about-number

[flywise]

I never disagreed on that. I am not at all in any way in favor of red flag laws as our government cannot reliably enforce our current laws and methods of handling these evil folks. They have failed us on that. The kids friends and family failed us.

[flywise]

These numbers are intentionally inflated. Here are some examples from 2018, specifically.

"* April 12, Rayton, MO: Someone fired a gun in the parking lot of a track meet, and a man was wounded.

* April 9, Globersville, NY: A student shot another student with a BB gun.

* March 13, Seaside, CA: A teacher accidentally discharged a firearm during a public safety class. No one was killed.

* March 8, Mobile, AL: A non-student was shot at an apartment on the University of South Alabama campus.

* March 7, Birmingham, AL: Two students were shot accidentally during dismissal time at a school.

* March 7, Jackson, MS: A student was shot at a dorm at Jackson State University.

* March 2, Mount Pleasant, WA: Two non-students were shot at a dorm at Central Michigan University – and police blamed a domestic dispute.

* February 27, Norfolk, VA: A student at Norfolk State University was apparently accidentally shot from an adjacent dorm room.

* February 27, Itta Bena, MS: A non-student was shot at a recreation center at Mississippi Valley State University.

* February 24, Savannah, GA: A non-student shooter shot a non-student victim on the Savannah State University campus.

* February 9, Nashville, TN: A 14-year-old shot a 17-year-old in a targeted murder attempt in a parking lot of a school.

* February 5, Oxon Hill, MD: Two teenagers shot a third teenager in a robbery attempt outside a school.

* February 1, Los Angeles, CA: A 12-year-old girl accidentally shot two 15-year-olds.

* January 31, Philadelphia, PA: A 32-year-old non-student was shot outside a high school after a fight.

* January 20, Winston Salem, NC: A college football player was shot to death on campus at a party.

None of these events meet the more typical definition of a school shooting: a multiple-murder attempt on a school campus directed at children. CNN merely broadens the definition to include typical murders that happen to take place on school campuses, or in parking lots, or including non-students. "

Source:
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/05/b...d-about-number

Thank you