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Editorial: Once again, teachers are the target of a school shooter — and the GOP
St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | Mar 28, 2023 | the Editorial Board

Posted on 03/30/2023 6:24:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower

In the past week, America has pondered two news stories involving schools, one tragic, the other cynical. On Monday, an attacker shot and killed three children and three adults in a Tennessee grade school, the latest in an almost-weekly parade of carnage in America’s classrooms. Days earlier, House Republicans, who have managed for decades to stymie meaningful national firearms restrictions, passed a “Parents Bill of Rights” that seeks to stick the federal government’s nose into local school policies on behalf of right-wing activists who view the nation’s overworked, underpaid teachers as the enemy. In a functioning political system, a major party would pay at the polls for displaying such warped priorities.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; education; gaslighting; media; trans
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To the extent that this one stands out, it will be for the unusual fact that the 28-year-old shooter was transgender female — a factor that anti-trans bigots will no doubt focus upon, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender white males.


But also it was a group of cis gender white males who rushed the school, killed the pervert, and saved many lives

1 posted on 03/30/2023 6:24:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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What a crock of excrement.


2 posted on 03/30/2023 6:27:29 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To the extent that this one stands out, it will be for the unusual fact that the 28-year-old shooter was transgender female — a factor that anti-trans bigots will no doubt focus upon, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender white males.

That's not true. Most of the recent shooters had gender dystopia of one brand or another.

3 posted on 03/30/2023 6:27:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Rumor has it the trans ‘community’(?) doesn’t seem to have a problem with these shootings. Even some think(again, ‘?’) justified. IF a couple of the teachers at the evil Christian school had to go............


4 posted on 03/30/2023 6:32:43 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: artichokegrower

It’s a pattern of distraction. Expect more this week.


5 posted on 03/30/2023 6:34:02 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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What an absolute ghoulish take on a tragedy!

With the Left, it is ALWAYS about politics, and using events to promote their agenda.


6 posted on 03/30/2023 6:34:57 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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It wasn’t a transgender female. It was a biological female Pretendaboy. This editorial is 100% BS.


7 posted on 03/30/2023 6:35:52 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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the nation’s overworked, underpaid teachers as the enemy.

Cry me an eff’n river. Why don’t groomer teachers demand that they can exercise their 2a rights in schools to protect themselves and their students? Why don’t groomer teachers stop messing with their student’s sexuality and screwing up their lives? Why don’t groomer teachers actually teach.

8 posted on 03/30/2023 6:45:33 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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“..meaningful national firearms restrictions”

Well then, how would these meaningful restrictions apply to places like Maine or Vermont or New Hampshire or the Dakotas or many parts of Texas or Tennessee that have many law abiding firearms owners but considerably less violent crime than California or New York or Chicago?


9 posted on 03/30/2023 6:47:10 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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“… that seeks to stick the federal government’s nose into local school policies on behalf of right-wing activists who view the nation’s overworked, underpaid teachers as the enemy.”

What a pant load.


10 posted on 03/30/2023 6:52:45 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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So, liberals keep shooting people, and then liberals say “see? this is why we need gun control”

How about if you liberals just stop shooting people...???


11 posted on 03/30/2023 6:54:47 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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“With the Left, it is ALWAYS about politics, and using events to promote their agenda.”

You can bet this editorial was fully vetted, if not written by, the leftist establishment. They, after all, are the ones who dictate to the media what the narrative is, and what is acceptable to be issued forth to the masses.


12 posted on 03/30/2023 6:58:01 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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Dear St Louis Post Dispatch Editorial Board,

It is increasingly clear that these school shooting have very little to do with the Second Amendment guarantees for arms and more to do with Leftist agendas creating an environment of mental illness and Leftist political killers running wild in a climate fostered by sick Progressive agendas.

Up and up the incidence rises all in keeping with the fundamental illness of progressivism.

Take your gun-fear porn elsewhere. None of us believe it anymore.

KC Burke


13 posted on 03/30/2023 6:58:16 AM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
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We need a list of the Drugs that these psychopathic I’m individuals are being prescribed.


14 posted on 03/30/2023 7:27:05 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! It's )
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To: artichokegrower

Most of the mass shooters do not even know what cisgender means.


15 posted on 03/30/2023 7:29:17 AM PDT by pas
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“...a factor that anti-trans bigots will no doubt focus upon, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender white males.”


The language used by the writer is telling. Obviously to him/her/it thinking that there is something off about pretend men and pretend women makes one an ‘anti-trans bigot’ and what normal people use the term ‘cisgender’?

But closer reading also shows the writer has made a very serious error, perhaps career-ending. He/she/it refers to the shooter as a ‘transgender female’, when, in fact the shooter was a woman who was pretending she was a man.


16 posted on 03/30/2023 7:47:49 AM PDT by hanamizu
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“It’s no coincidence that the nation’s gun death rate has skyrocketed in that time, especially in red states with loose laws.”

illinois up... blue
maryland up... blue
washington up... blue

it’s no coincidence this guy is lying through his teeth


17 posted on 03/30/2023 7:54:34 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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Why don’t groomer teachers actually teach.

They have to toe the Communist line. Otherwise they wouldn't be "teachers."

18 posted on 03/30/2023 7:57:31 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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If I had a bird in a cage I would put a copy of this author’s article in the bottom.


19 posted on 03/30/2023 7:57:57 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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20 posted on 03/30/2023 7:59:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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