Florida School Shooting Thread

When I was in ROTC on the exhibition drill team, we used M1s with plugged (welded) barrels. When practice drilling on the basketball court, we had to put a rubber cover on the buttstock for the moves where the stock taps on the floor. We also had an air rifle range in the school to learn marksmanship in preparation for army qualifying.

No one cared, no one was triggered by us in uniform, no one was butthurt by us raising the flag every morning.

 

It has taken years of social engineering by the left but they are finally getting traction. More and more lemmings are starting to believe that it is guns and not people that are the issue. When I was in highschool you would see guns in back windows of pickups in the school parking lot all of the time and it was not uncommon to see a disassembled firearm on a table in the library, there was no school cop and strangely those guns never hurt anyone. Now people shit themselves over a waffle that a kid chewed in to the shape of a gun...

 

Pop Tart...don't make waffles out to be the bad guy

 

We still teach hunter safety in our local school, part of PE curiculum. Parents can opt out if they wish but it isn't common.

 

Should be nationwide.

 

Hey, today it's Pop Tarts, tomorrow it will be waffles.

BAN WARM BREAKFAST FOODS NOW!!

 

Sad, especially the one saying the Constitution is outdated...

 

This is a direct result of Government Run School Systems....and Poor Parenting..(Liberal Parenting).

 

She had me right up until she blamed "gun laws".

Be much better for everyone if she were the de facto spokesman for MSDHS.

 

The following comes from a FAQ distributed by the Harvard Graduate School for Education to teachers and deals with how to respond to walkouts and protests regarding gun violence in schools. What I found most interesting was the difference in language of the responses to Questions 1 and 6. Link to doc at bottom.

1: I’m a high school teacher. My students want to participate in a walkout next week to demand legislation that keeps schools safe from gun violence. I want to support them, but my principal/district does not seem open to it. What can I do?

One thing every educator can do: Support students’ civil rights, and align that support with your school's mission.

“School leaders can articulate that while they support students’ civil rights — including their right to engage in peaceful protest — students’ beliefs are their own. Schools can defend students’ rights to express themselves, without taking a stand on the content of that expression," says Meira Levinson, in a piece about how schools can respond to protest.

"A school or district’s mission statement can also be a helpful guide as leaders consider how to respond to protest incidents. What are your core values — the set of guiding principles that you’re always talking about? These should be familiar to people and can provide an essential touchstone as you try to navigate among stakeholders with deeply divided opinions.”

Another key response: Create opportunities for students to express the strong emotions they are feeling. Carve out time and space for civil discourse and reflection, says Laura Tavares, writing in Greater Good Magazine. That should involve the creation of classroom norms to guide conversation and provide guardrails for discussing contentious topics. And when the conversation starts, let students lead.

For students who want to get active: Suggest that they explore Youth in Front, a new hub for advice and information for youth activists. The site has videos of experienced youth activists and adult allies answering common questions (for instance, Will I get in trouble?).

• See Facing History’s guide to fostering civil discourse in the classroom.
• More on how to support students even if you can’t support a walkout.
• Videos and other resources for and from educators, from Youth in Front.

6: I’m a high school teacher. Some of my students have been carrying “Protect the Second Amendment” signs around my school. How do I accommodate their views amid student activism on gun control?

Just like the young people advocating for stricter gun control laws, these students have the right to express their beliefs. Educators should support all students who want to participate in civic conversations and practice civil disobedience.

As a public school teacher, your freedom of speech in classroom discussions does have limits. In other words, it’s unwise to take sides on a political issue in front of your students. You can, however, ask students from both sides of the aisle to interrogate their own views through reasoned discourse. Have students read op-eds from multiple perspectives, review research on previous gun control measures, and discuss interpretations of the Second Amendment. Make sure they know the facts, and ask students to put together evidence-backed arguments around their beliefs.

It can also be constructive to ask them to move beyond opinion and propose policy solutions. School safety affects everyone, regardless of their perspectives on Second Amendment issues. On an issue where adults in positions of power are often stymied, young people’s ideas are needed.

• Read more about teachers’ and students’ First Amendment rights.

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/18/03/student-protests-questions-and-answers

 

Wait.
I thought a whole bunch of you are wishing for changes regarding people counts and apportionment? So which is it —inviolate or mutable?

 

I think you have your threads, somewhat crossthreaded....

 

Cross threaded? They've already been stripped.

 

Term limits would be a nice addition

 

Silly me. I thought consistency of principle underpins logic. Carry on with pick n’ choose.

 

By “pick n’ choose”, do you mean like your (lack of) consistency between what is legal and illegal?
Is this the kind of pick and choose you speak of?

 

Show me where I have done that.