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domoclan12 · 6 years ago
Okay, someone propose me a solution, whatever you’d think would work. I’m open to suggestion
pokethebear · 6 years ago
News flash, 18 is the age of majority. You can legally do everything an adult does (except drink, and that puzzles me, I think it is the university lobby). You can vote, enlist, buy firearms (except pistols in most states), buy tobacco, marijuana (in some states), go to the emergency room without parental knowledge, drive whenever you want. 18 is the magical age that you must begin to adult.
r0xanne4444 · 6 years ago
a lot of schools are doing walkouts mine is doing like three
killingdanse · 6 years ago
What on earth are they walking out for are the for gun control because I hate to tell you that won't solve the problem. Are they for arming teachers (that might actually work) or better protection for schools such as armed guards (that might work too). Do you even know why they are walking out?
sm19 · 6 years ago
@killingdanse if they can't afford to give teachers proper material to teach, they can't supply every teacher with a freaking 9mm. Also, a kid could easily steal those guns and would make the school shootings even easier. Or what if a teacher would be having a bad day and end up using the gun? There shouldn't be a need for armed guards in schools either it's a fkn school. Americans, you really need to sort yourself out.
sm19 · 6 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7MwvqCtlk also, this is really worrying.
r0xanne4444 · 6 years ago
We do walk outs to get our politicians to take action. Gun control is important. And newsflash; in some schools, security guards DO have guns. It doesn’t seem to be helping does it?
punchmunchkin · 6 years ago
I’d just like to point out just how bad the situation is. The best thing we can think of to do is have a bunch of teenagers walk out of school in protest. It makes our govt look so pathetic when the kids care more about issues than they do. We shouldn’t have to be the ones to do this. They’re politicians, they are supposed to be trained in making change happen, and we’re resorting to kids marching. It makes me sad that my country cares so little about its youth that the youth have to be the ones to stand up. I wish my school was allowing the walk out, bc I’d totally do it, but they said anybody who does will be expelled.
pokethebear · 6 years ago
One of the root causes of violence and injury among adolescents is a propensity for risky behavior and overly emotional responses due to various pathways within the brain forming and shutting down. It is the literal manifestation of immaturity. Public freakouts are another example.
funkmasterrex · 6 years ago
i like pickles... but i love lamp.
killingdanse · 6 years ago
@sm19 Sigh... most sheriffs departments offer free training for those who wish to carry or learn how to use a gun. Furthermore, they are perfectly happy to come into schools in order to teach kids about crime, guns, and other subjects. It fosters a relationship between the police and students. Hate to tell you this but most teachers are already gun owners. The schools would not need to buy them. Factor in this with the fact that guns are not really the problem here. Its people who do not obey the laws that are the problem, guns don't just randomly shoot people. More gun laws can potentially create an even bigger problem with things like school bombings, stabbings, and the use of potentially more deadly weapons. If you look at the statistics "gun free zones" are usually the ones that are attacked. They make easy targets because no one else is armed. In truth the United States does not have any more mass shooting than other countries. The news just tends to talk about it more here.
killingdanse · 6 years ago
@r0xanne4444 Umm... those with armed officers are not the ones being attacked by random gun men.
deleted · 6 years ago
“The United States does not have any more mass shooting than other countries” I would very much like a source for that claim
r0xanne4444 · 6 years ago
@killingdanse mine almost was?
deleted · 6 years ago
Update: Announcements started out with admins praising the students.
deleted · 6 years ago
@killingdanse according to wikipedia (super reliable, I know) the US has about 31% of the world’s mass shootings, while only having around 5% of the world’s population. That hardly suggests the US “does not have any more mass shootings than other countries”
pokethebear · 6 years ago
Those admins should be on the unemployment line on Monday.
killingdanse · 6 years ago
Oh and there's this "The U.S.' index of 0.12 per 5,000,000 places it behind Norway (recall the Anders Breivik massacre), Finland, Slovakia, Israel, and Switzerland - at half the ratio."
deleted · 6 years ago
It’s true that in recent years other countries have had more fatalities per capita, but I was referring to frequency. If we’re looking at frequency, those sources you provided all show that the US has way more shootings