Of course we can talk about guns. We can talk about the appalling lack, on school property, of guns with which the school employees could defend themselves and their charges. Michigan's got the right idea. And if that results in teachers shooting their students (which it will, because teachers commit lesser degrees of violence against their students all the time and they walk), well, that's just the price we have to pay to defend people's ability to shoot Sikhs and Trayvon Martin defend themselves.
The one comment I saw from a guns advocate on FB (most of those I know have been blessedly silent) was, "What about the 22 children who were stabbed to death on their way to school in China? See, lack of guns doesn't stop people from killing people!"
So we have to make it EASIER for them to do so WHY?
Well, the whole point is 22 children WEREN'T "stabbed to death" -- every single one of those children in the knife attack SURVIVED.
But, as hapaxspouse said, "in this time of great national mourning, WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE POOR, VULNERABLE, UNLOVED GUNS? Who will stand up for the bullets?"
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Meanwhile, the state legislator across the street was re-elected on a platform of allowing (nay, encouraging!) concealed-carry on campus.
You can guess how much this thrills hapaxspouse, who teaches a topic frequently targeted by confrontational extremists.
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So we have to make it EASIER for them to do so WHY?
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But, as hapaxspouse said, "in this time of great national mourning, WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE POOR, VULNERABLE, UNLOVED GUNS? Who will stand up for the bullets?"
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