A 19-year-old Coloradan named William Whitworth, who identifies as "Lilly," was arrested last week for allegedly planning to shoot up multiple schools in the Colorado Springs area.
I am a HS teacher, so I have a definite dog in this fight. I don't want my students, or me, getting shot by a lunatic. However, I am not so dumb to think any new gun laws will solve the problem. Schools are the "safest" place, because all guns are forbidden there, but somehow the lunatics bring them in anyway. And if they had no gun, they would likely resort to a bomb, or some other method (I know fellow teachers fear a different method more, but I won't say what they think could happen, because some lunatic might just read this and try it). IYAM, the only real solution is to have better security at schools, and raise the number of armed officers in the schools. My school has over 1500 students, on two floors, but only two SROs. The design of the building creates a need for at least 5, to cover it entirely. I know a veteran personally who says he and several others would protect the students in the local school, if only someone would authorize it.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on additional protections for gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against lawsuits within a bill that lawmakers passed after a deadly school shooting in March. The stat...
Most of the deadliest school shootings in world history happened in countries other than the US.
Complete garbage. The only attacks on schools that have been worse that US school shootings have been attacks by militants, terrorists or state actors. That would be like saying Chicago's murder rate is nothing compared to Bakhmut, Ukraine. And don't do the trick where you pull out the per capita statistic that makes it look like Norway is the worst because of the Brevik mass shooting. There is no comparison when you look at gun violence in the US compared to other western democracies. US gun violence per 100k is usually about 10-11 every year. Canada is 2.2. Japan .08. UK .24. Most of the countries with worst gun violence have militarized gang violence (i.e. gang wars) that make up the bulk of the gun violence.
When talking about gun violence, you can't talk about the elephant in the room without being cancelled. But I'll give a hint: look at the safest states and how they differ from the most violent ones.
Complete garbage. The only attacks on schools that have been worse that US school shootings have been attacks by militants, terrorists or state actors. That would be like saying Chicago's murder rate is nothing compared to Bakhmut, Ukraine. And don't do the trick where you pull out the per capita statistic that makes it look like Norway is the worst because of the Brevik mass shooting. There is no comparison when you look at gun violence in the US compared to other western democracies. US gun violence per 100k is usually about 10-11 every year. Canada is 2.2. Japan .08. UK .24. Most of the countries with worst gun violence have militarized gang violence (i.e. gang wars) that make up the bulk of the gun violence.
When talking about gun violence, you can't talk about the elephant in the room without being cancelled. But I'll give a hint: look at the safest states and how they differ from the most violent ones.
Pretty amazing how they covered this up so quickly. The government can just say "nah we aren't telling you that, you can't handle it." and we all go about our business and act like there's not some deeply shady $hit going down.
see Epstein case too, there's a woman in jail for sex trafficing young girls to ... nobody????
When talking about gun violence, you can't talk about the elephant in the room without being cancelled. But I'll give a hint: look at the safest states and how they differ from the most violent ones.