Another American teenager exercises his second amendment rights

America. Land of the free.

The NRA disagrees, it seems.

The US has problems - I get that. School shootings are but one problem.We get the usual laundry list of countries that have problems (as all do I would think) but not school shootings.
So why are school shootings singled out as the biggest most new-worthy debate inciting polarizing issue the US is facing today? What is the psychology/motivation behind the pathologically disproportionate amount of attention on school shootings?

You make it sound like school shootings are stubbed toes, and that it's weird to make them noteworthy.

no they are not stubbed toes. I just can't understand why so many people make a statically rare occurrence into the #1 worst thing that the US faces - the worst fear we can conceive of versus the other dangerous situations that we are much more likely to encounter. School shootings are but one of the many random (and not so random) dangers we face - lightning strikes, car wrecks, drug overdoses, home fires, drownings, preventable diseases, food poisoning, etc.etc.etc.

Because school shootings should be fucking ZERO.
They used to be.
WTF happened?

You kiddin'? Teenagers are especially good at getting into stuff they're not allowed to get to.

BTW, the thread title is inaccurate, since he was actually too young to legally exercise 2nd amendment rights.

I fully understand human emotions. Still waiting for an explanation as to why of all the tragic, violent deaths that occur, school shootings should by default elicit the most extreme emotional reaction.

As one who experiences them, or as a stream of ones and zeroes in your HUD package like Dayton does?

sure: things like unlocked liquor cabinets, sheds, and garages.

Trigger locked weapons in gun safes, however...

Perfect? Of course not. But I don't know many folks who can bypass a cylinder lock. How about you? Is there a locksmithing course in the NJ high school curriculum?

There is a possibility that through eavesdropping someone could figure out my bedside table safe’s combo as it makes a distinctive chime for each button pushed, but that would only gain access to my Glock 36. Neither my hidden garage safe (1911) or big Liberty safe have chimes for their buttons or combination tumblers respectfully. And you’d have to be really REALLY good to pick out a combo from sound, especially through a door.

I feel my guns are pretty secure, even from a 17yo.

Are there age restritions in the second amendment?
I bet not.
Ope, you've already accepted restrictions.
Your core beliefs are a lie.
Your life was wasted.
Start all over.

Because they are sensational, you stupid sack of shit. You could make an argument the media should no longer publish accounts of massacres as they incite copycats, but that would require something akin to N. Korea.

Even though they are sensational, you fuckhead, those of us advocating for gun control see the big picture, not just isolated events that statistically are not significant despite their sensational aspect. We all continue to fly in spite of spectacular air crashes.

However we will use sensational news events to shove down the throats of people like you that this country is worse off with easy access to guns.

Don't like it it? good.

Nah, we don't need all those kids anyway, we can spare them. More where they come from and all that. As for obesity here's something a lot of people don't know about it.

People had easy access to guns before, yet previous generations didn't have a school shooting problem.

The shrieking libs don't seem to want to address this point. I wonder why?

Most people have you two risible twats on ignore.

I give no fucks about who has me on ignore. If you morons want to cede the floor by not responding, be my guest.

As I said a few posts above, the real problem is the acute cultural shifts that have occurred over the past 25 years, and these problems had been building for 25 years prior to that.

The reason you have no response to this is because your "Christians are stupid, sky fairies, abortion is cool" schtick is part of the problem. Cultural rot. When you dehumanize unborn babies and slaughter them en masse in the name of women's rights, and when you denigrate spirituality as mental illness, the result is predictable - crazed, sociopathic 17 year olds who lack the internal moral compass to determine that murdering 10 innocent people is something you shouldn't do.

So, you own that shit, you fat, social misfit. Think on your sins.

I see you repping, Dayton!
Naughty, naughty!

In case anyone thought Texas was full of dumbass hicks, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick doubles down on stupid and suggests "there are too many entrances and exits" in public schools.

https://us.cnn.com/2018/05/19/us/texas-school-shooting-exits-trnd/index.html

Who elects these fucking buffoons?!? Oh, that's right. Americans.

Of course it has nothing to do with a political climate where sensitivity is considered "weak" and apologies are considered "weak" and caring about other people's feelings is derided as "politically correct."

so if someone is upset or concerned or outraged about different things than you are, that is a problem for you? Everyone has to think & feel the same way you do, and have the same common life experiences and perspectives as "the majority" of society? What a sad, insular world you live in, if this is the case. You have my pity, if that's any consolation.

You are welcome to the world you live in. I have no intention of changing nor any desire to ever set foot in it.

you ain't breaking my heart any. I like living in a world were everyone is entitled to their own opinions - but I'll admit it's not for everyone. You probably couldn't hang without the media telling you what to feel & think.

There you go again....you can't conceive of anyone differing from you without being brainwashed by the "liberal" media.

Patrick is exactly right. The high school just down the road from me has multiple buildings spread out over a large campus. The smaller detached buildings behind the main building? Devoid of any type of security, multiple entrances, none of which are locked at any point during the school day. Anyone, absolutely anyone, could walk in off the street and be inside one of those buildings for a significant period of time before anyone would notice.

If Santa Fe High had one entrance for all students, with metal detectors installed, maybe, just maybe, this Trenchcoat Mafia wannabe would have been stopped.

Stupid strawmen, mixed with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Let's talk about why schools continue to resist common sense suggestions for beefing up security.

Money.

Costs money to hire off-duty cops to serve as armed security. That's if security is allowed to be armed. Bedwetting snowflakes will try to convince you that a security guard with a gun is just as dangerous as the crazed teen looking to mow down classmates. Then you get the race jockeys who want to argue that armed caucasian security will simply start murdering black students in cold blood. Same thing for armed teachers. Ms. Smith will bust a cap in Mo'She'Niqua's ass if she gets an attitude about not being allowed to play games on her cell phone during class.

Kinda funny how these fools who whined about the dangers of armed security and railed against the idea of armed teachers were the first to criticize the resource officer at Parkland for not rushing in to engage in a gunfight with that killer kid.

Also costs money to install metal detectors, train security to operate them, hire a company to come out and service them if they go on the fritz. Public schools are criminally underfunded, so no money for this. Or maybe the school just figures it's more important to use bond money to renovate the football stadium than invest in proper security.

Truth is, school districts and local government are engaging in a simple cost-benefit analysis. Costs a lot of money to adequately secure a school campus, money schools either don't have or money they simply want to spend on other things. So, it's cheaper to just float along and hope one of these shootings doesn't happen to them.

Hate to tell you, but that kind of thinking doesn't have anything to do with the NRA or Trump.

When schools stop being soft targets, maybe we'll stop seeing these tragedies play out at schools. Ever wonder why crazed 17 year olds don't try to shoot up gun shows? Or why they don't head on down to the local police department and start firing?

Of course you know why - because they know they'll meet armed resistance at those places. But not schools.