Maryland has way super-strict gun control laws. These laws include bans on what leftists call “assault rifles,” the requirement to get permission from the state before being allowed to purchase a firearm, a requirement that purchasers of firearms be fingerprinted like the common criminals leftists think they are, strict age limits, limits on magazine capacity, universal background checks, a gun registry (which has never even once been used to solve a gun crime), and, of course, “gun-free zones” around every school.
None of those laws were worth a bucket of spit yesterday when a 17-year-old punk brought a gun to school to shoot his ex-girlfriend. Rather, the element that prevented this incident from becoming a mass casualty event was the very thing leftists have been ridiculing these past few weeks: trained and armed security in the school where the shooting happened.
Nobody died except the punk.
The left is firmly of the opinion that “the good guy with a gun is just a myth.” So sayeth NBC News, ABC News, CNN, Huffington Post, Slate, Politico, Vox, NPR and every other reliably left-wing media outlet. Armed and practiced individuals are simply incapable of stopping criminals with guns, they tell us, with all the journalistic authority they can muster.
The Democrat left insists that the solution to “gun violence” are laws banning “assault rifles,” the requirement to get permission from the state before being allowed to purchase a firearm, strict age limits, limits on magazine capacity, universal background checks, gun registries, and, of course, “gun-free zones” around every school.
In New York, they pulled all the armed guards out of public schools on the perverse leftist logic that trained and armed men made students *feel* unsafe.
Someone asked Ross Perot when he was “running” for President: “Would it be possible to confiscate all of the guns in the US?”
Perot replied: “Yes. But it wouldn’t be pretty.”
Lets start there. All the Progressive piety and then some can not pave over the fact that there is an ocean of firearms spread across the fruited plain.
So, if we are really serious about guns, why not surround those small number of square miles of mayhem in Chicago and sweep up all the guns?
Warren Buffet says there is no such thing as just one cockroach in the kitchen. So, clear out the guns in the murderland of Chicago and the perps will just move into the next battleground.
The point is, accept the fact of guns and deal with them intelligently.
Did you know that Progressives opposes an automatic, separate prison term for using a gun in the commission of a felony? Therefore, the perp runs no extra risk for possessing a gun while undertaking his felonious activities.
Another fact to face is that public school budgets are structured to play income games with warm bodies. The schools get “paid” for every student they keep on the rolls. And then the juvie courts order students to attend school instead of going to lock-up. So, high schools baby sit a group of kids who would otherwise be incarcerated.
Progressives cry rivers of tears over these victims of society. Yet they simultaneously fight the concept of reform schools and fostering programs in which the elite Progressives rewire the kids and turn them into valuable members of the Utopian order.
Within the public schools the established rule is to “pass the trash.” Kids with pathologies are called “at risk” and they are exempted from the presumptions imposed on “normal” kids. “At risk” students have one silver bullet: they threaten to drop out of school. That means a $$$ amount from the city and state is lost to the school. So, the school hangs on to the income source and builds ever more “programs” for baby sitting and “lets don’t, but say we did.”
In 2018, the public schools are, by and large, a joke. That Cruz kid at Parkland was a well known and essentially free to do what ticking time bombs do.
I think we will discover that the kid who shot his ex-girlfriend in Maryland is a “troubled youth” as well.
Why can’t the Progressives get a clue about asocial pathologies?
At the same time, why do we assume that a person trained to use a gun is also some sort of whiz-kid at understanding when a “troubled” student is about to go postal?
When you look into the backgrounds of these school shooters you will almost always find a lot of well known “indicators” for going off the rails.
It is well past time that “at risk” takes on the meaning that the kid has a basket of problems that need something other than the presumptions of the public school.
Because the kid can’t handle the presumptions of the orderly and successful classroom does not mean that the presumptions are wrong.
Because a person is not a responsible gun owner does not mean that the gun is the problem.
Progressives are stuck on “equality” and “harmony” and bullshit in general. Every Progressive should have to spend 6 months in the overcrowded lock-up dorm of the joint security lock-up and see how the inmate work out “equality” and “harmony” among themselves. They can start with choosing the TV channel.
Our nanny state sucks at much of what it has taken on. Progressives see such “failure” as the need to double up on the nanny state fumbling and psychobabble.
Libtards prefer to be harmed and killed by the blade. Their gun grabbing agenda is only important to them inasmuch as it is an agenda that they have established.
I’ll say it again: It’s time to end the obsolete 3rd Amendment — this would never have happened if you just had half a dozen of the USMC’s finest living in this kid’s house.
Disney removes images of blasters from Han Solo movie posters because of childish overreaction to gun violence.
https://www.dangerous.com/42678/gun-hysteria-spreads-disney-removes-blasters-upcoming-star-wars-movie-posters/
the left doesn’t want to disarm the citizen to stop crime, they want to disarm citizens to stop the citizens from having a means to fight dictatorship. the people you call liberals, progressives, whatever, do not have good intentions in this gun control matter. their goal is to create a dictatorship. give them that and that is when the real mass murder will start.
Jesse Kelly
The number one reason Progressives want to confiscate guns is their perception of the type of person who owns guns, a conservative. The attitude is, “Let’s stick it to the people whom we hate.”
The number two reason is Progressive look to the people in their social group and they see just how bat shat crazy they all are.
Now, the reality of the situation, American school boys are drugged at a rate of more then 6 times the next country in line, Britain (which drugs their boys multiple times more than the 3rd place holder). As the adoptive dad of two heavily drugged boys while in foster care, we had to hire lawyers to get the school to allow a 3 month trial at school without the drugs. Guess what happened, there were no indications that the drugs were needed. (Both boys also had eye glasses that were not needed. See a pattern here?).
By definition, a sociopath, does not have a conscience. A conscience is built (or refined) by cause and effect. Our current educational system is creating sociopaths. Wrong actions are not being meet with the appropriate response to refine a conscience. If everyone gets a trophy, there is no cause and effect.
There was a recent study that showed “most” school-shooters were living with only one-parent, or only had one-parent, or with substantial parental-disruption. Very few were living with just a father. Or simply-put, “…where are the fathers?”
We don’t need gun-control, …we need Parent Control.
Ideally, arming teachers should not be neccesary as a teacher represents the last level of defense against such events; if everyone else does their job, armed teachers are unnecessary. The Stoneman-Douglas Hmassacre showed that government can indeed fail to keep us safe and protect us from criminal behavior. The idea that we don’t need guns because the government will take care of us has been shown to be false.
On another note, it is frequently observed that criminals, mass shooters, etc. grow up in fatherless homes and that the crime rate among intact families is little different from the general population. The real question is whether the absence of a father is a root cause of criminality or a symptom of conditions leading up to criminal behavior. We raised an autistic son. One thing I noted in the parent support groups was the number of marriages that survived a child with disabilities was miniscule. In the groups I knew, there were two out of several dozen.
Agreed.
We may be on the cusp of returning to a stricter class system in society.
The home school society has washed its hands of Progressive egalitarianism. The spontaneous “invisible hand” organization which has sprung up among home schoolers is astounding. And they are extremely “values” oriented. They share their expertise through co-op education and take advantage of a great many useful regional resources.
Meanwhile, the public schools have tried “charter” schools and “magnet” schools and other “alternatives” to the mish-mash of the general public school. Soon enough, the Progressives come bitching about equality and inequality and special treatment and blah, blah, blah and everything is run through the social justice blender and the efforts flop and plop back into the same old, same old.
So far as parents are concerned: the in-tact, traditional nuclear family is an endangered species. When you examine the socio-economic facts of the average public school, you discover that the reality is that way too many kids live in chaotic circumstances.
We classic liberals have the common sense to move away from pits of chaos and seek out people and institutions which are not part of the problem. Hence, home schooling.
Most churches have discovered that they must pander to the diminishing population in their pews in order to keep the collection plate full enough to keep the church going. So, they adapt their “teachings” to what the congregation wants to hear, which slows their steady demise.
Therefore, we divide and hide. I don’t strut around wearing a Trump T-shirt because I don’t care to meet a lot of jerks hissing at me. Neither do I try to find out where Progressives are congregating so that I can go there get an outbreak of hives.
Before the hippies let loose with their Progressive clap-trap, there were three institutions which had a profound effect on society: The family, the church and the schools. All three are now in turmoil and the friggin’ state is supposed to sort things out. That is the Progressive wet dream. Elites dictating every aspect of our feudal lives.
We have more and more people walking away from the nanny-state fluster-cluck and going it on their own. But it take huge money for parents to pay the taxes to run the nanny-state and the costs of educating and caring for their own family.
Add to that the cost of absorbing millions of illegal immigrants who come to jump on the “promote the general welfare” gravy train.
I’m curious on the eventual outcome of the nescient trends with the gay-male community;
1. Gay marriges seems to be more stable and lasting v. the breeders.
2. More Millennial and Gen-Z gay couples are trending monogamous compared to the more monogamish older gay couples.
3. More and more gay couples are raising children.
…Ancedotally even the adopted spawn* of Savage-Miller is turning-out as a decent kid. [*-apologies to D.J.]
“In New York, they pulled all the armed guards out of public schools on the perverse leftist logic that trained and armed men made students *feel* unsafe.”
Well, a rare case of Leftist’s feelings matching reality, because now they *are* unsafe.
Re the NYC schools and the students that “feel unsafe”: if you were a “student” in the NYC schools and had outstanding warrants, you’d feel unsafe, too.
Sadly, the ex-girlfriend died the other day. Her parents had to take her off life support.
Doesn’t minimize the heroism of the guard, but just wanted to update the post.