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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Aurora and Littleton are middle class suburbs of Denver. Aren’t those like suburbs of any major city in America?
Because government schools are not allowed to put crazy kids elsewhere.
School vouchers still tax people who have no kids in the system. Any parent that has no children or home-schools their children should pay no school taxes.
Almost, but they do lean further to the left. Their “conservatism” is a far cry from the conservatism of some of the Midwestern and southern states (exceptions being states like Florida, with large influxes from the northeast and left coast).
Then put them nowhere. Stay at home kid-—you’re nucking futz.
The shooting at the Amish school was not by any student there - it was an intruder if I recall.
Colorado has been filling with people from the northeast and west coast for generations. I’ve found that while not absolute, people with more generations of Americans behind them are more likely to be good neighbors.
[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.]
Yes, these men are/were Cultural Marxists.
The rot you spoke of is cultural rot.
We are in a cultural war, therefore our task and goal should be to restore a moral culture to the nation.
This means small groups of moral and cultured people must quietly form and lead small schools that the kid’s parents choose.
This will be most unpleasant but it must be done. We will lock horns with the unions (yes, plural), and self-interest, single issue bureaucracies.
I’m researching Oregon law on small private schools to see if groups of ordinary people can set up small, affordable schools for their kids. I will report back when I have some cold hard facts to give to any FReepers who seek it.
I ran a private home school for 10 years. I homeschooled other people’s kids.]
Good for you, blu. I’m intrigued that you homeschooled other people’s kids.
I didn’t know that was permitted. Perhaps it’s a state thing.
If you wouldn’t mind I’d like to know what state you’re in.
No, I don’t work for the NSA or NEA, or anyone else of that ilk. If you could homeschool other people’s kids I’ll certainly think about doing the same.
Good post, blu.
Thanks, SW. I taught in Michigan. We used the religious school exemption. I used a basic Christian curriculum, but did not adhere strictly to it. As for the kids’ faith, I just asked them and their parents if they believed inGod. That was my only entrance requirement.
I taught mostly the square pegs, who are brilliant. Easily my favorite job.
I know the media started tho with Columbine so most of you do not know BUT I live 1 klick from Columbine, can see it from upper floor, drive past it many days and IT IS NOT IN LITTLETON. Littleton is right down the road to the east and we have a Littleton mailing address but we are in Jefferson County. Littleton is the county seat of ARAPAHOE County.
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