Between posts #2 and #8, there is something like 78 years of FR experience with stuck-in-neutral bloviation represented.
To all, try to enjoy this movie reminder of how important the American-do attitude is when facing what appears to be overwhelming odds. Then join the thousands who are demanding an explanation about why the elites children are more valuable than our children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8hQk76GcA
The issue is not, as you attempt to frame it, whether we should demand an explanation or not.
The issue is whether signing a petition is of any value or not.
The “87 years of experience” seems to think that it is a waste of time. If so, the effort being put into the petition would be better spent finding a way to actually make the point you are trying to make.
The worst part of the petition is that it is calling for something that nobody here actually supports. I personally detest arguments that push for a negative in the vain hope that the other side will be persuaded by the idiocy.
Why not put up a petition that calls for all children to receive the same protection as the President’s children. It would still be useless, but at least it would be stating what you actually WANT.
Anyway, as a practical matter, Sidwell Friends should absolutely have more guards than a normal school. Every kid in Sidwell Friends is at increased risk of harm because there are high-value targets attending the school.
The rest of the schools in the country are about the safest place kids can be, on average. While we are confronted with the horror of the occasional mass murder, they are extremely rare, and many more kids are dying for many other reasons, and even being murdered in other locations.
Or to put it another way: if we were going to spend one billion dollars to make kids safer, there are a half-dozen things we could spend the money on that would make a MUCH BIGGER impact than putting armed guards in every school.
So, in summary, this freeper is saying: First, Obama will do nothing he promised; Second, the petition is a waste of time and effort; Third, the petition calls for the OPPOSITE of what you really want, which is silly; Fourth, there is good reason for the President’s kid’s school to be better protected than the average school; and Fifth, schools are already safe enough that we really shouldn’t be making them a high priority.
If you want to do something, do it cheap — let teachers and administrators have guns in all schools, and let the NRA provide training programs because that doesn’t cost government anything.