As the mental hospitalization rate fell, the imprisonment rate rose.
I haven't seen this chart updated in the last 20 years -- but I can't imagine that it's gotten any better.
Posted on 04/01/2023 5:01:55 AM PDT by DoodleBob
The Daily Beast isn’t news, it’s propaganda!
And there is never zero risk of getting killed in a home. It happens all the time.
Even if there are zero cases of a homeschool shooting TODAY, that doesn't mean the RISK is zero. The potential is always there, and it's growing as the ranks of homeschoolers increase.
When we have the first homeschool shooting, everyone resting on "nobody's ever been killed in a homeschool shooting" will be SOL.
Let me be clear: Homeschooling is THE way to go, along every dimension one could argue. It's not riskless, it's not easy, it won't work for everyone, and frankly some parents will suck at it. But parental rights are plenary, and THAT is the commanding basis upon which everything else rests.
“Entry is restricted to the entrance where the deputy is located.”
Most high schools have multiple exits - front/back/left right. Now sure that would work, but many parents won’t send their kids to “death camps”.
The mediots are your enemy, there was nothing wrong with what he said.
Yet another deliberately misleading headline from the Daily Beast. Burchett didn’t “shrug off” the murders by any stretch. He merely expressed how his family has responded to the epidemic of violent lunatics shooting up schools.
It’s the safest thing to do in America these days. Especially around elections time when the Dung Beetle Party starts firing up their turd roller voter base with school mass shootings.
Sending your kids to school around election time is a not a good thing to do. The RATS start pushing their voter issues hard about that time.
“uniquely American—plague of mass shootings”
That is a da**ed lie. The US ranks something like 94th in the world in the number of mass shootings.
The answer should have been that he prays to God everyday to help the goverment sharpen and use it’s sword against all evil, including the one that is trying to turn young women, who shouulf be raising beautiful families of their own into imitation male psycopaths.
“What else should be done to protect people like your little girl from being safe in school?”
I’d have treated the question like the implied threat that it is and responded: “If you try to bother or harm my daughter in any way, you’ll find out, but you won’t have much time to reflect on it.”
As the mental hospitalization rate fell, the imprisonment rate rose.
I haven't seen this chart updated in the last 20 years -- but I can't imagine that it's gotten any better.
Still this is an unforced error.
Politicians who do not homeschool their children nevertheless do not face a situation where gunmen can attack and kill the children in their childrens’ schools.
It’s time to point out why: There are armed gunmen in those schools to prevent exactly that happenstance.
Make that fact famous.
The power of the communist, antiChrist press.
Meanwhile, the cards are getting mangled. But hey, maybe we will get it right NEXT time, and the cards are resilient, right?
You are welcome to duck the brush, and have a go at the administration of arming teachers. Meanwhile, children are spending hours a day in a system of rot. Every day a child is in that system, is an extra day for the child to think "why?"
To paraphrase Jeffrey Snyder, how can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect your child's life, when you will assume no responsibility yourself? Because that is his job and we pay him to do it? Because your child's life is of incalculable value, but the teacher's is only worth the salary we pay him?
It'll be eye-opening, when the kids today who evade all the nonsense ask their parents tomorrow, "why the f didn't you pull me out of school?" The parents will effectively say "well, paying the mortgage was more important than your safety and soundness."
When the parents today, who put dual incomes over their progeny, have their kids play a NEW Three-card monte with a run-down retirement home tomorrow, nobody should be surprised.
(Again, I haven't seen this chart updated for a few years, but I can't imagine that it's gotten any better.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
That sums it up. It is impossible to eliminate risk. If you are unfortunate enough to find yourself in the path of a homicidal maniac, be it in a school, on a subway or out on the highway, there is not much you can do but find a path of escape from the situation.
We can put a billion well-meaning laws on the books, gut our Constitution, and go door to door seizing weapons, including even your kitchen cutlery, but all that will offer you no protection whatsoever should you come face to face with somebody who means to kill you.
As you point out, even in our most secure and locked down prisons, some of the inmates are going to get access to weapons and thus gain the means to kill or maim their fellow inmates.
Getting back to school shootings, arming the teachers seems like a swell idea but in practice, it is not feasible. I think back to the teachers I had when I was in school and just can't imagine, for example, my gentle third grade teacher Mrs Rothblatt, keeping a fully loaded pistol in her desk drawer. Gentle Mrs. Rothblatt, who once ran from our classroom in hysterics because a mischievous pupil (not me) planted a big black spider on her desk under her papers - a fake one by the way. The principal had to come and calm things down.
My point is that you can't expect to convert elementary school teachers (mostly women) into armed Rambos. That's a pipe dream. Even if I was myself a school teacher, and I'm familiar with firearms, I would not want the responsibility of carrying a loaded gun in a school environment with children all around. Too much can go wrong and guess who would be held responsible if some punk kids were able to grab it from me? So all of this happy talk about arming the teachers is a non-starter.
Posting armed guards at school entrances is probably the most feasible option. But how many entrances in a typical school? Many. A school system could perhaps afford to pay one or two armed school guards as a deterrent, in the manner that shopping malls employ some overweight "mall cops" on scooters to glower at loitering teens in food courts and tell them to move along, but to truly do it right and proper would be cost prohibitive, not to mention making the school look like some kind of dystopian armed camp. Even so, there would still be ways for a determined psychopath, who doesn't care about dying, to smuggle some weapons in "Godfather" style and do some serious damage before the armed guards can reach him.
You just can't eliminate all risk.
I also have thoughts on why there are so many more school shootings these days than in the past but that will need to be for another thread. Maybe it's own thread.
Using shrug in the title you can pretty much use for any statement anyone makes about anything.
New headline : “MSN completely distorts what the gop representative said in their usual lame attempt to make the gop look bad”
“..“I don’t see any real role that we could do other than mess things up, honestly, because of the situation,” he replied. “Like I said, I don’t think a criminal is going to stop from guns, you know, you can print them out on the computer now, 3-D printing, and, there’s really, I don’t think you’re going to stop the gun violence.”
Rather than pass any gun regulations or restrictions, Burchett suggested that a better solution may be to pray the murders away.
“I think you got to change people’s hearts,” the congressman said. “You know, as a Christian, as we talk about in the church, and I’ve said this many times, I think we really need a revival in this country.”...”
Burchett has it right. And His Daddy was right too when he said you can’t stop a shooter who wants to die.
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