Posted on 02/16/2018 2:09:57 PM PST by huckfillary
After the Florida school shooting, all you’re going to read and hear are, “Why haven’t we banned guns yet?” or, “When will the madness stop?”
Advocates of gun control relentlessly ask these questions not because they know gun bans will prevent school shootings, but because of the questions they do NOT want you to ask.
It’s hard in a culture whose intellectual and media agenda is dominated almost completely by leftists who want guns banned to ask these questions. But you still can, and you should.
For example:
Why do these shootings always and only happen in government-run schools?
Clearly, public schools – despite being government property – are unable to prevent or control the spread of this horrible violence. Yet we’re counting on the same government to ensure that guns never get in the hands of violent criminals. We assume that the federal government can win a war on guns despite its complete and decades-long failure to win a war on drugs.
What about the role of ideas in violence? Ideas have consequences. When a terrorist shooter has ideas of white racial supremacy, advocates of gun control have no problem talking about the role of ideas. But when the terrorist shooter identifies with Antifa and Islam, the shrieks for, “Ban guns now!” only become more deafening.
Obama used to love the phrase, “national conversation”. Why are we allowed to have a “national conversation” about the supposed panacea of banning guns, but never a national conversation about why violence is so prevalent at government-run schools? Why don’t we read about shootings at Montessori schools, Catholic schools or Jewish schools? Or in home schooling or private tutor settings? If socialization of children is so important, why do we leave control for that socialization up to the federal government – frankly run by socialists and Communists, for the most part – and then act so shocked when we get these results?
What ideas and attitudes are these students learning that leads so many of them toward hatred and violence? What are private schools doing right that public schools are doing wrong?
I understand the argument that public schools need to do a better job of policing students. But to be fair, what else can they do, short of turning these institutions into literal prison camps?
As the rest of the world looks to gun bans to solve the school violence problem, I will look to privatization of schools. When parents have both a choice and responsibility for choosing the nature and setting of their childrens’ education, instead of leaving it up to the hapless and hopeless government, it’s going to be a whole lot safer.
Perhaps the most compelling question of all: Once we further regulate or ban guns altogether, and the shootings continue to happen … What then?
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The moral rot is so pervasive that it has infected both the public and private spheres. The followers of Alinsky,Marcuse and Gramsci have been very effective in their work. Satan’s little helpers.
riot.
or cower with their safe space binky.
Why are they only in places like Broward County, Florida, Newtown Connecticut, Littleton, Colorado and Las Vegas?
The answer should be obvious.
Public schools are Satan’s American masterpiece.
(his European masterpiece is the Vatican - ME is islam, etc,etc)
I ran a private home school for 10 years. I homeschooled other people’s kids.
Get this: We never ever had a school shooting. Never had a knife fight. Never even had a fight. I did, however, have a thick yardstick....
Hubby and I knew how to run “security”...and the kids and their parents never knew.
Make that places like Broward County, Florida, Las Vegas, Nevada, Newtown, Connecticut, Aurora, Colorado and Littleton, Colorado.
We know what those places have in common. And the behaviors and family lives were quite similar between the mass murderers along with the psychoactive drugs and possibly other drugs.
Make that places like Broward County, Florida, Las Vegas, Nevada, Newtown, Connecticut, Aurora, Colorado and Littleton, Colorado.
We know what those places have in common. And the behaviors and family lives were quite similar between the mass murderers along with the psychoactive drugs and possibly other drugs.
Also, the Amish school shooting was not committed by a student.
The only shootings at our home-school are during marksmanship training and hunting.
The society at government schools resembles that of prisons, complete with gangs, drugs, and lots of bullying. High schools are getting larger all the time, because schools (and many parents) want winning sports teams. The larger the school, the more problems there are and the greater the social dysfunction.
End compulsory attendance, end government education, and let innovation in education flourish. There is no reason, other than subsidized babysitting, to have kids march lockstep through 12 years of school based on their age. Slower kids get left behind, and brighter kids are bored out of their minds.
The school shootings happen at schools in affluent areas. The liberals in those areas want gun free zones, ergo the gunmen go there to shoot kids. The ghetto area schools in my area have armed school district police on campus, ergo gunmen do not go there to shoot kids.
I’ve been wondering when someone would connect the dots; school vouchers would solve this problem.
Can you please educate me? What do those places have in common? Thanks.
Notice how none of these mass shootings have taken place at the intercity public schools where they have the students walk through metal detectors each day in front of a police officer or an armed security guard.
There aren’t enough because the public schools are sucking the tax payers dry. Catholic schools shutting doors left and right... They would easily Reopen if the parents had vouchers to spend as They please.
Thanks for ‘correcting’.....
Just a bit of “enhancement” on your otherwise fine post.
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Public schools are the only ones dumb enough to post signs letting the shooter know that NOBODY will shoot back.
Another similarity was that of the families’ upper middle class incomes.
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