re: 60 mins Parkland "we are mass shooting generation"

Murder rates were way higher when i was growing up. Fueled by crack, i just don't see how we got those numbers 1-3 victims at a time. I also loathe we're repositioning the goalposts after the fact.

This.

They’re too young to know anything about the world.

Maybe if a fellow student hadn’t shot their friends. Go kids go

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The lesson we need to be teaching them is that their opinions don’t matter and no one cares about their problems.

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Why do you think we should be teaching this?

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The lesson we need to be teaching them is that their opinions don’t matter and no one cares about their problems.

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The lesson should be "no one cares about their problems"?
Really?

The lesson should be we don't care that defenseless school kids are guarded by cowering sheriff deputies hiding outside while 14y/o's are shot to death in classrooms in front of their friends?

Come on!
You don't believe no one cares about those problems.
You don't believe that.

Of course we care.
The lesson should be that solutions should be up to the adults though.

HOWEVER . . .

When you have events like Las Vegas where investigations are hushed, conclusions are lacking, no actions are taken, and no lessons are apparently learned, it does raise questions as to who the "adults" actually are. It does, and should, raise angst of potential targets. Those targets include school kids. There is legitimate question as to what is being done to protect them.

Perhaps folks can remember the feeling of first hearing overhead passenger jet in the days following 9/11. Some described the experience as "scary". Some described it as "creepy". Others experienced pride or resolve. But nearly everyone had a reaction. For schoolkids returning to class in the days after a highly publicized mass school shooting, there is a similar response. There is a post-traumatic stress. There is an edge. Different kids react in different ways, but they nearly all react.

That deserves our attention. The issue of school mass shootings deserves our attention, our analysis, and our action to hopefully ensure it never happens again. But but the issue has been ongoing since Columbine. There is precious little action to show in approaching the problem.

A grandstanding, manipulated, press-agrandized Parkland Drama Club group is not helpful in that regard though.

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lmao bet you're a hit at children's parties

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You can be a fool at a kid's party as part of the entertainment.

But when you go to a kid's party and expect legislative solutions to complex issues you are acting as an unfunny fool.

DEMs/prpg/MSM are throwing a big party for kids and explaining it as some sort of inspirational, intellectual, rational, approach to a complex issue.

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The only reason for this 'epidemic' of mass shootings and other social ills stems directly from the coarsening of our culture thru the destruction of the nuclear family and retreat from moral imperatives.

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Our 24/7 yellow journalism press immortalizing teenage social outcasts turned mass murderers is hugely contributory.

Obviously it is ironic when the same "if-it-bleeds-it-ledes" journalists responsible for immortalizing these murderers then feign histrionic conniptions over need for solutions.