Posted on 03/21/2015 6:43:32 AM PDT by rktman
Oh, how I wish Texas lawmakers cared as much about our children as they do their guns.
And wouldn’t it be terrific if the folks who represent us in Austin despised injustice as much as they do immigration and taxes?
I suppose, given the makeup of our state Legislature and the leadership in the top statewide offices, that’s a little too much to hope for.
It is no surprise that new gun legislation has been put on a fast track at the Capitol, sailing through committee and floor votes with ease, while our underfunded public schools likely will languish.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
$25,000 per student per year just enough. Democrats still need more campaign cash!
That's what all the panty-wearing libs in Minnesota said when that state passed cc some years ago. After a period of time the same libs had to concede that the state wasn't any more violent than before they passed the bill.
Believe it or not, the same libs used that as an argument that they should ban cc because it didn't lower the crime rate. Unbelievable.
I find it interesting the StartleGram doesn’t have a response/comments section on his blog page. I guess it just shows the lib-gressives can’t stand honest disagreement. We already knew they prefer to stick their heads in the sand to ignore the reality from other states with similar provisions in their law. Facts are hard things...
Well, the paper may not have a comment section but there is always this:
bobraysanders@star-telegram.com.
Of course any contradictory comments would be viewed as racis’.
“I suppose, given the makeup of our state Legislature and the leadership in the top statewide offices, that’s a little too much to hope for.”
If things get too freedom-like here for you, you are welcome to leave...anytime. And take a bunch of your “comrades” with you.
“Oh how I wish idiots such as Bob Sanders would do just a little investigatory work and see how states with open carry / constitutional carry are doing with their crime stats. “
Idiots like Bob never let facts get in the way of their way of looking at things.
“To Progressive-Liberals “slapping leather” means something entirely different...”
You mean slapping their crotchless chaps? Why there’s a whole new scene for the remake of “Blazing Saddles” in there somewhere.
They probably already know, most of them. That's probably the problem, in fact. The more states that recognize our rights, the more the results will be on display, and it will get to the point where no one will buy their fascist disarmament plans as safety-related.
The wife and I visited Bodie a few years ago. Interesting but eerie setting. I believe the town was finally abandoned around the forties.
You could probably write a book on Hollywood misrepresentation and (above all) hypocrisy on this subject. I can even remember reading in an old issue of American Rifleman at our trap club up here in Ottawa a thing on how anti gun the late Jack Lord (Hawaii Five-O) was and how proud he was of such views. That does not begin to mention others like Steven Speilberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Sylvester Stallone, etc.
Many libs live under the conceit that if we could just ban all guns, the violence rate in America would drop to zero. I read stories by libs about the violence that "rages" unabated across the country in America thanks to guns. And visiting foreigners read these comments and really believe they're entering a land of daily shootouts and thousands of citizens dead from the constant gun battles.
The facts are many of the least violent states are armed to the teeth. Here in Wisconsin there are many more guns than citizens. But outside Milwaukee, the murder rate is akin to many of the virtually unarmed countries of Europe. It does not occur to the average gun-owning citizen of Wisconsin that robbing and killing someone else is a good idea.
I consider myself a partial graduate of the one-room schoolhouse as I had a couple of teachers in elementary school who began their teaching careers in one-room rural schools. One was my 4th grade teacher who had also taught my godfather in an actual one-room schoolhouse across the road from where I lived the first five years of my life. This teacher's methods would appall modern "educators" with her emphasis on rote learning, drills, and in-class spelling bees.
I expect Bo-bray's meltdown on such methods would be epic.
The “old west” was not like the movies: there were few
violent encounters because most people were armed.
It is the student and his family that is the most important factor by far in educational success. School administration and teacher quality is strictly secondary.
underfunded public schools?
ROFL!
Every school I have seen in the last decade is a freaking palace!
Plus, all the money in the world wont make someone retarded smart, and for decades our public schools have been flooded with more and more retarded and semi retarded kids.
“Yuh say that like itsuh bad thing.”
The conceit of liberals is that average Americans (who the elites despise) are stupid troglodytes who need to be controlled by their betters i.e. liberals. That means taking away their guns so they don’t kill themselves...and maybe some correct-thinking libs as well.
Especially irritating to me are the moves (High Noon is the best example) of cowardly townspeople needing the hero to come save them from the nasty badmen who the townspeople probably outnumber one hundred to one.
Many of the citizens of the west were ex soldiers or backwoodsmen used to guns and tough living. That a town full of those types of armed citizens would be scared of a few thugs is ridiculous. But many a western has been made with that theme.
What happened to the James Gang in Northfield was probably the most likely real scenario. Shot to pieces by the townspeople of Northfield.
Conservatives are wont to fall for the spending more money scam as well. Supposedly all those kids in inner-city schools are victims of bad teachers and poor funding. The facts are bad students make bad schools. Read Robert Weissberg’s “Bad Students, Not Bad Schools” to get the truth.
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