chawkins99

I was in Academy Sports last Thursday lunchtime and there were maybe a dozen people waiting at the gun counter.

They have a deli-style ticketing system now. Grab a ticket and wait for your number.

dakota44

They need to ban them and OUTLAW the posession of one subect to a huge fine and potential jail time..but with a brief period allowed to voluntarily surrender them without penalty.

Octang Frye

David Hogg kid is refusing to return to school until "a gun law is passed". Okay.

Do you guys want to live in a society where complex legislative and policy issues are dictated by 16 year olds who two weeks ago were eating Tide Pods?

Octang Frye

For bump stocks? Silly gimmick, hard to use. You can do the same thing with a belt loop.

Lion in Winter

Well the grown ups aren't exactly doing a stellar job, are they. Not sure I would notice the difference.

SultanOfSwing

Yeah, I'm with dakota here, WGAF? That's lovely that she has a permit - doesn't mean a) she actually knows how to use it and b) guns have any business being anywhere near a school if they're not strapped to the belt of the SRO.

Arming teachers is a stupid idea, end of story.

Tide Pods were a (really terrible) meme, and a very small number of stupid people actually fell for it and tried to eat them. It's not like this was a regular occurrence by any means and you're pretty far out of touch to even bring it up in jest.

David Hogg, IMO is an incredibly articulate young adult who presents himself in a much better light than a great deal of actual adults I know and to lump him in with the memelords does him a disservice. To answer your question - I'd be quite happy to live in a society where such decisions are carried out by people with the kind of head on their shoulders that he has. As it is, in the next 20-30 years, we'll be there anyway, you can't exactly stop the passage of time, might as well make the best of it.

Lion in Winter

He sounds both sane, reasonable and intelligent.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b03b55731d2ded


https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/25/us/re...ing/index.html

Octang Frye

We shall see.

SultanOfSwing

Only the most insecure adult is scared of a teenager who is smarter and more articulate than they are. So of course, he just has to be a paid actor, it's just inconceivable that it could be anything else, right?

dakota44

Law enforcement strongly disagrees with arming teachers for a number of reasons...not the least of which is that in active shooter situations the policy is if you see someone with a gun...shoot them. Period.

Octang Frye

LOL. Okay. Wait and see.

Lion in Winter

Yes, or someone else told him what to say. Because teenagers never think about important issues or have any ideas of their own about society...

SultanOfSwing

Yes, that absolutely mirrors how teenagers were when I was in school ...

Oh no, wait, that's complete bullshit.

Lion in Winter

Not to mention

IT'S THE US FFS, NOT BLOODY SYRIA.

How is it even possible that this is being touted as a "solution"?

manekeniko

Would have been fun seeing my high school social studies teacher, Miss Hoogenboom, packin' heat as an armed paramilitary. Hoogie loved ramming that big ruler over the desk to restore classroom order. Imagine what she could have done armed with an assault rifle.

Trump is strangely childlike and lacks any semblance of self-awareness. He exposes himself to mockery by making these statements and doesn't seem to realize it. He comes off as a bit old, sad and clueless.