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Something About School Shootings
American Thinker ^ | May 29, 2022 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 05/29/2022 6:46:14 AM PDT by upchuck

Every mass school shooting strikes terror in parents’ hearts and grief in the communities in which they occur. You might from press coverage have the idea that they are a regular occurrence, but, in fact, they remain rare -- 13 mass school shootings since 1966. Still, like all seemingly incomprehensible tragedies it causes a search for meaning. After all, people my age went to schools where there were rifle clubs. Kids in those clubs regularly brought their weapons to school, and yet there weren’t any school shootings. (I expect in some rural areas of the country this may still be the case.)

What is common, as it is in all tragic events, is the jumbling of facts and the need to wait a few days for a clearer picture. The best information I can find right now about the shooting in Uvalde, Texas comes from the Wall Street Journal.

With minor additions as late-developing information comes in from elsewhere, that is the source of this summary timeline. 


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 05/29/2022 6:46:14 AM PDT by upchuck
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2 posted on 05/29/2022 6:49:42 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: upchuck

Many have something in common. An absent father.
A young man, bullied and lost, with no direction in his life.
All live in a society that tells them killing for convenience, infants, days before birth, is fine. They themselves, only years from such vulnerability, but just as unvalued.

They know they are unwanted and living a miserable existence. Loners. They know the society they live in, their community, views them as expendable trash. They see others, happy , enjoying life. It sends them into a rage.


3 posted on 05/29/2022 7:01:16 AM PDT by PA-RIVER ( )
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To: upchuck

1 - They have taken GOD out of school..

2 - They can no longer spank a child at school.

3 - Parents are using the internet and video games to teach and babysit kids and not spending time with them as much.

4 - Psych drugs are being used more and more for kids. Some may have problems that need them and some don’t. Used to be a South Park episode that was funny about other methods to make kids sit down and shut up and do school work.

5 - Media blows these stories sky high. The politicians immediately politicize it. But the media and social media almost makes these disgusting killers into celebrities. Each one killer wanting to do better than the other..


4 posted on 05/29/2022 7:07:33 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: upchuck

The figure for 13 mass school shootings requires at least 4 students shot. The left floats a different and much higher number that includes any student shot, at any time of day. Statistically speaking, 13 mass shootings in 56 years in an increasing population is hardly a trend. While every murder is tragic, 24 hour news networks and politicization of school shootings make it seem there is a crisis. The left thrives on crisis, it is the way they convince people of change.


5 posted on 05/29/2022 7:09:44 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: glimmerman70

Once the left destroys minorities,police, Hollywood, hospitals,nursing care, all they have left is schools and farmers to destroy.


6 posted on 05/29/2022 7:12:38 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: PA-RIVER

Good assessment of these perpetrators


7 posted on 05/29/2022 7:20:14 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: glimmerman70

Ditto


8 posted on 05/29/2022 7:29:55 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: cnsmom

Haven’t they destroyed schools a long time ago? And what the left hasn’t done to farmers yet Monsanto and bill gates will do.


9 posted on 05/29/2022 7:30:46 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: glimmerman70

- They can no longer spank a child at school.

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In California

unless you want to risk having your child removed from your custody by CPS,.

a parent can not

Spank their child
Lock them in their bedroom or house
Ground your child
OR
Verbally abuse them =
( say anything that will hurt their feelz)

and every school kid knows this thanks to public schools.

So tell me,,,. How is a parent supposed to be able to raise a law abiding safe human

in this state or any other state with these laws ?


10 posted on 05/29/2022 7:45:13 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: PA-RIVER

The Uvalde murderer WAS the bully, according to reports


11 posted on 05/29/2022 7:51:17 AM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
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To: upchuck

Social media exposes kids to the worst of deviant behaviour in a context where they can interact, display, and compete to see who can be the craziest. Tide Pods are a fairly benign example.


12 posted on 05/29/2022 8:00:50 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: cuz1961

Back when I went to school the teachers could spank you. In elementary school they would call your house if you got spanked and I would get it again when I got home. My parents never really did the grounding thing because I went outside to play. They didn’t want me in the house. You went outside and came back in at lunch. Then back outside until dinner. I had no brothers or sisters so I played by myself. Lived out in the country so spending the night at a friends or having a friend over was big. Other than that I hunted and fished. Had a 22 by the time I was 7. Learned gun safety at a very young age. Every gun is loaded and treated that way. Keep safety on. Never point a gun at anyone. Be careful moving the barrel around and make sure it’s never moves around and gets pointed at someone or passes in front of them. Barrel up in the air or down at the ground. Do that and your fine.

Don’t know why I said all that but. Anyways. I remember when I was getting to teenage years and I mentioned one time to my parents about if they spanked me I could call HRS or CPS and my mom handed me the phone and said if you want I will dial the number for you if you want. They can come and get you and you will go live with a bunch of other really bad and beaten and unwanted children that would trade places with you in a second. You will be hungry and a number. A statistic, those people won’t care about you because there is to many of you. So go ahead. As a matter a fact let me call them for you. Lol. I never mentioned it again..


13 posted on 05/29/2022 9:03:20 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: ConservativeInPA
Recall....in this country alone thousands of unborn children are killed daily.

In just one hour 71 are killed in the womb.

Yet many in this country argue to continue that.

14 posted on 05/29/2022 9:33:38 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: upchuck

Speaking bluntly, we also did not have much of a homeless problem until the ACLU filed a lawsuit claiming the mentally ill could not be held in mental hospitals against their will. They won and the mental hospitals were emptied, only to find that those released had no place to live and no way of earning a living.
Likewise, those young men cursed with the hereditary schizophrenia gene were also not treated in a hospital. These shootings are committed by the mentally ill, and the Damn Dem. screaming for gun control know this.
I’m not the only one who wonders if I am the only one to notice how these shootings occur at the perfect time for the Democrats to exploit6 the issue. They are way too coincidental.


15 posted on 05/29/2022 11:41:47 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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16 posted on 05/30/2022 6:42:44 AM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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17 posted on 05/30/2022 6:51:23 AM PDT by null and void (We're trapped between too many questions unanaswered, and too many answers unquestioned...)
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