Posted on 02/15/2018 5:18:41 PM PST by ml/nj
I don't know. I'm asking.
I graduated high school in 1964. During the entire time I was in school Wikipedia reports that there was one incident where three people were killed in US schools, and none where two people were killed. There was an average somewhere between one and two incidents a year where one was killed.
Guns were MUCH MORE AVAILABLE then. Schools had rifle teams. I shot an untethered .22 at Coney Island. I shot guns at Boy Scout Camp. Anyone who thinks that more gun restrictions now would help is oblivious to this.
We also played with make-believe guns. My cap pistols looked like real guns. We played Cowboys and Indians. I'm not a fan of the shoot-em up video games, but it's hard to see how they are very different from the games I played.
So, what's different? Movies and TV shows are different. Respect for the US is different. Victim mentality is different. Respect for religion is different. There's a lot more welfare and a lot more taxes. Manners are different, or non-existent. I think government schools are different, but I haven't been in one for 50+ years so I'm just guessing.
We need to return to what worked. Continuing with more great solutions that make things worse strikes me as the wrong way to approach the problem we have.
ML/NJ
Idaho was the fastest growing state in 2017.
Unbeknownst to me, in the latest estimates Illinois fell just behind PA to 6th place. IL is losing a shiite ton of population.
Bankruptcy can ruin a place
Ada and neighbouring Canyon Counties. .... Almost as large as Delaware and almost as densely populated
Warm weather in Chitown
Bosox sign JD martinez
I got the mail in a t-shirt and pajama bottoms.
Cubs signed Darvish. Tried to trade Addison Russell.
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