In the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's, anyone could buy guns at hardware stores, army surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, Sears mail order, no waiting, no background check, no fingerprints, no government forms and there were no school shootings. Shooting sprees of all kinds were almost nonexistent before the Texas Tower campus killing in 1966. What's changed since then?
- We've seen an erosion of personal responsibility.
- The language of entitlement has encroached on our national discourse.
- Rights are no longer inborn. They are freely available to anyone who can find the words to describe new ones.
- Television has invaded our living rooms, and with it much virtual violence.
- Judges and legislators have been permitted to ignore the second amendment.
- A positive notion of population control for our own people has entered the minds of our children.
- The state, through its limited success in stemming the Great Depression and winning WWII has become like a god to the socialists. All you need are the loving arms of its protection. To be independent of it is to be a threat to others.
- A drug culture that has gone mainstream and professional.
- Mothers who work are the norm.
- A further regimentation of children's lives through bells, activities, and political correctness in support of all of the above through our socialist educational system.
The surprise for me is that schools are as safe as they are.
A further regimentation of children's lives through bells, activities, and political correctness in support of all of the above through our socialist educational system.In the Miami-Dade Public Schools, if a kid is attacked and fights back, he still gets suspended as a matter of policy. This teaches submission to government authority and servility.
The surprise for me is that schools are as safe as they are.
They're not. You just don't get to see the violence or hear the reports because they're suppressed also as a matter of policy. I see the violence every day. Last year we had four gun incidents including a teacher who had a gun shoved in his face.
OTOH, I also know of more than a few teachers who keep guns in their cars as a matter of course. They know the value of being armed in an emergency. Colombine and Pearl Mississippi being seared into their psyches. Now the terror attack in Russia. It wouldn't surprise me if the incidence of armed (covertly or stored in an auto) teachers doesn't rise rather dramatically. I'd rather risk my job than the lives of my students.