Waking The Sleeping Giant On Gun Control: The PTA
I suppose we should feel reassured by this. We don’t.
Instead, like most of you, my wife and I feel a mounting sense of horror and bewilderment at the growing number of school shootings in America. In the 18 months since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there have been 74 additional shootings, or nearly one per week.
Over the last four years, school shootings have more than tripled, from eight in 2010 to 28 last year. We’re at 38 for the first half of 2014. The state with the highest number of shootings — 10 — was Georgia, which just happens to have passed a sweeping pro-gun law this year. Imagine that.
http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2014/06/17/parents-should-take-the-lead-on-gun-control-steve-almond
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libodem
(19,288 posts)With the massacre of school kids, whether in China with knife slashing, or in an America with an AR15?
Is there a silent dog whistle of resentment against the innocent. Who pushes this hatred? Why?
If there were ever a reason to spy on each and every citizen of the world it should be to keep our schools safe. (I guess) I still resent being spied on.
Is there some larger plot being spread in right wing, white supremacy, gun nut groups, that schoolchildren are a threat? Or the public school is a threat. Who benefits when parents are too afraid to allow kids to go to school?
I have to believe it is perpetuated by an actual entity or organization not just the simultaneous voices in multiple minds?
Why does this happen and why does the NRA lobby to keep social science from studying and publishing the findings ?
jeff47
(26,549 posts)In the Chinese "knife slashing", zero children died. Thus, not a massacre.
Interesting. Thank the Goddess.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)A guy waves a gun permit during a public meeting so the cops take his hunting rifle away and kick him off school grounds?
There must be something missing from this story. It just sounds like a bit of an overreaction.
enough
(13,466 posts)it was seen as a threat.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/06/arlington-parent-gun-seized-after-altercation-with-elementary-school-principal/X1fMVshTpcdTgf0T5E3UFK/story.html
Actually, I can't think of any other reason why a person would wave a gun permit in that situation, other than as a threat.
safeinOhio
(34,334 posts)the 3 pillars of the NRA.
billh58
(6,642 posts)with an attitude...
billh58
(6,642 posts)As a result, we now have more than 300 million guns in this country and more gun fatalities than any other industrialized nation.
But it’s pointless to argue these facts with gun advocates. And it’s really not necessary. Our role at this point should be to champion our own cause, not to debate people who believe that assault weapons keep us all safe.
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So the next time you take part in a meeting of your local PTA or PTO, please stand up and raise the issue of what your organization plans to do to fight for sane gun laws. There’s no reason that children (and parents) in the most prosperous nation on earth should live in fear of the next nut with a toxic grievance and easy access to an arsenal.
Support a gun control organization of your choice today, and urge your fellow PTA/PTO members to join you in helping to rid this nation of the gun violence which has been enabled by the profit-driven, right-wing gun lobby.
JustAnotherGen
(33,834 posts)billh58
(6,642 posts)are awakening to the horrors of the gun violence epidemic in this country while hard-core rednecked gun nuts run around displaying assault type lethal weapons as some sort of an totally idiotic badge-of-honor. The only "honor" among Second Amendment absolutists is that of honoring the right-wing gun lobby (and the NRA) for support their "right" to spread death and injuries through the obscene proliferation of guns on our streets.