Everybody wants to reduce class sizes but nobody wants to accept the one sure-fire way to do so.

Brings a whole new meaning to "I'm dead bruh" on social media

Common Sense doesnt seem so COMMON these days.

I vaguely remember being taught air raid drills as a kid. I can't comfortably accept that children now have to be taught active shooter drills. Or how wide spread the idea that nothing can (or should?) be done.

17 dead at a school? Because of a nutty asshole who wanted to bring his online tough guy persona to the real world?

As human beings we have to do better.

Like JORR, I'm actually happy that these mass shootings are happening while President Trump is serving our country. President Trump is the only man who can solve this gun regulation problem by personally eliminating any and all barriers to gun ownership via executive order and protecting us from liberal Antifa gun-stealing burritos like Anthony Rizzo via a bullet to the head.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/2016 ... _Trump.htm

Anthony Rizzo doing work! Maybe his prayers will be the ones that bring much needed change.

Like always, news media will talk about this for a week and go back to Trump. And nothing will change. Then the next one will happen and they'll do the same thing.

Might be less then a week because the news media gets more ratings with Trump. Not the day of these shooting but in the days to follow.

Well he did give the school 150k in November.

28-30 years ago Laurie Dann walked into a Wilmette grammar school to shoot it up and mental illness was blamed. A week later it wasn't news and cuts to public mental health spending continued on their path, with claims that nothing could be done.

28-30 years ago Laurie Dann walked into a Wilmette grammar school to shoot it up and mental illness was blamed. A week later it wasn't news and cuts to public mental health spending continued on their path, with claims that nothing could be done.

It's access to and higher quality guns that has changed right?

Not that we can really only back now but that's it.

We're not crazier. We're not bullying more. There have always been nuts and nerds.

Nothing can be done. This just happens.
You'll never get rid of guns
You'll never eradicate mental health issues

Yep.

This is the new normal and we as a society just have to deal with it.

A

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

I'm a hardcore atheist but there's a real discussion to be had about the influence of a belief in God if not the influence of God himself. If you don't believe man is created in God's image what makes him special and immune from being killed on a whim the way one would kill a pig when he wants a BLT for dinner?

[b]B

C

If we can't agree on A, we have to accept C.

I'm not willing to accept C.

We're not crazier. We're not bullying more. There have always been nuts and nerds.

A

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

I'm a hardcore atheist but there's a real discussion to be had about the influence of a belief in God if not the influence of God himself. If you don't believe man is created in God's image what makes him special and immune from being killed on a whim the way one would kill a pig when he wants a BLT for dinner?

[b]B

C

If we can't agree on A, we have to accept C.

I'm not willing to accept C.

It's access to and higher quality guns that has changed right?

Not that we can really only back now but that's it.

We're not crazier. We're not bullying more. There have always been nuts and nerds.

Everybody wants to reduce class sizes but nobody wants to accept the one sure-fire way to do so.

It's access to and higher quality guns that has changed right?

Not that we can really only back now but that's it.

We're not crazier. We're not bullying more. There have always been nuts and nerds.

I vaguely remember being taught air raid drills as a kid.

I can't comfortably accept that children now have to be taught active shooter drills.

Or how wide spread the idea that nothing can (or should?) be done.

17 dead at a school? Because of a nutty asshole who wanted to bring his online tough guy persona to the real world?

As human beings we have to do better.

Mental illness and terrible circumstances coupled with schools/law enforcement/families/infringement on individual rights not being able to do anything. If you walked in to most schools and said give me a short list of people that are capable of this or some other horrendous act they could. The way it is set up is to not bother them or find a way to get them out of your school so they can be someone else's problem.

Doesn't every Islamic terrorist believe in God?

Part of the problem is that mental illness treatment is extremely expensive and has mixed success. You need to treat with extensive counseling and medications. No one wants to have their taxes increased so little Johnny can go lie down on a school psychiatrist’s couch every day, and then get prescribed free Xanax.

In fact, many of the shooters in the past decade have shown to be on anti-depressants. So much so, that there are theories that theses medications may actually cause some of these events.

But God forbid someone suggests banning certain types of guns, magazines and ammunition for non hunting weapons.

Or closing down gun shows (?)

Or bump stocks.

Or having consistent background checks on a federal level.