Posted on 02/16/2018 1:39:08 PM PST by Hojczyk
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I recall not long after what happened in Sandy Hook that a meme came out (one of my favourite pro gun ones) that had the caption “Semi auto rifles have been available for more than 100 years”, with images of vintage gun ads. Then at the bottom it said “What has changed”, with images of the “Hollywood” sign and screencaps from graphic and violent movies and video games.
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Sorry, but there’s still the disconnect. Even ~100 yrs. ago, you had the news hawking about Bonnie & Clyde, even further bad Billy ‘the Kid’, etc.
Ask any ‘gamer’ or child, and they’ll tell you outright “This is a GAME.” Physics alone will tell anyone this ISN’T the ‘real world’.
Violence has always been the human condition (same as oppression and even slavery). But the culture, the CULTURE.....there’s the $1M question.
Over-grown govt that families require BOTH to work to survive. Taxes @ 50%+. The ‘ideal’ of the 50’s, so far out of reach to the typical Citizen as to be *RICH*.
The one variable: G-O-V-T.
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I believe the time has come for public schools to design and administer a security plan. If they do not, then close the school and let a charter school have the land.
The plan needs to include:
1. Access limitation, and a patrol to cover the fence where access could be breached.
2. ID checking. I taught for two years at a school and I was given an ID but it was never asked to show it, and I walked into the school from the parking lot via one of 5 entrances (with many more in the rear of the building.)
3. An armed patrol at each point where IDs are checked for entrance to the school. This is meant to include portables where a fence must enclose them as well.
4. Establish a program where the personnel who are armed are regularly trained (monthly at a minimum) and include teachers who wish to volunteer for the training. People in this program will be allowed to concealed carry on campus and will not be identified to the student body— identification to the rest of the staff is contingent on how willing the staff is to keep this information secret.
5. Regular drills need to be established to make emergency calls to the local police and have the police respond quickly.
6. Students need to have a class in personnel safety where they learn how to protect themselves in their facility and how to not be defenseless in the face of a potential shooter.
I have probably left some things out.
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The *ONLY* plan is to re-enable the Free Market.
- Terminate teachers unions and the DoEd
- Terminate any/all property taxes
- Parent(s)\Guardian(s) pay for the education of their own brood\charges
Given:
- Education facilities can hire WHOM they wish
- Facilities are graded against BASELINES (3 R’s and nothing more)
- ‘Graduation’ should require no more than 8 yrs. of formal education.
Which would:
- Open schools of ‘higher’ learning: vocational, arts, music, etc.
- Enable biz to sponsor said ‘higher education’ (journey-men, apprentices, etc.) IE: CONTRACTS of ‘yrs. service for each X $ spent). [have to weigh the 13th here]
....sure I got some other points, but getting long in the tooth, as it were.
If we could put them in hospitals instead of drugging them, they would be safer and so would everyone else. And there would be fewer of these incidents.
We’e got to stop drugging kids if they show the slightest sign of rambunctiousness, or even ADD.
Yes, look at the eyes. They all seem to have that same insane, strung-out look.
When I was a kid the worst problem at our school was kids chewing gum in class...
The culture’s falling apart - chaos is encroaching - darkness winning. That’s the real problem. It’s not guns...
And adults as soon as they experience depression.
Depression is a symptom.
I agree, during my teaching years, I always wanted to be able to contract for my services on an annual basis and drop the Union.
I agree, during my teaching years, I always wanted to be able to contract for my services on an annual basis and drop the Union.
It's the culture, stupid.
Or, It's the stupid culture.
It took us 50 years to get here. I hope it doesn't take 50 years to get back.
Seeing as your qualifier is EXACTLY what she's complaining about, your exception of video gaming is nonsensical.
Video games do, in fact, inculcate a sophisticated strategic mindset that is contrary to civil society when possessed by a person who is morally neutered and untouched by life experience: just like these kids.
Furthermore, when these kids are in "gamer mode," the abilities and decision tree hard wired into their nervous systems from years of practice is frightening.
true.
THIS could be an armed teacher. Most of them, not so much.
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