Apparently not enough guns in Texas schools yet..

How do you figure?

Same old story... Having an "armed resource officer" on school grounds means it's already too late and someone is going to get shot. It's like saying "We are going to give you all the booze you want, and then follow you home in a ambulance so when you have an accident we'll be there to pick up the pieces". Having an armed resource officer on school grounds isn't a solution, it's a response after the shooting has already started.

Even worse is the concept of "armed resource office" is can give a false sense of security. Take a look at what happened in Florida. The armed resource officer was an older man, close to retirement. You think someone who is months away from retirement wants to go running into a building with a mad gunman who most likely out armed him and has no reason to live?

The attempts they are taking to make our schools safe are ridiculous. They did it here with my kid's high school. They built a new wing, and included "special door stops" to lock down the doors. That's cute. Never mind the fact that the other side of the classroom is wall to wall windows.

So glad my kid is almost out of high school.

As an American who lived in Australia for 5 years straight I can tell you, from how peaceful & prosperous life is in Australia , looking at America when you live there, America looks like an insane Asylum.

Drugs aren't sold on TV in Australia like they are every commercial break in America.

Kids can't buy guns in Australia like they can in America.

People can easily afford a house in the straw at they can't in America. Most Australians on two properties one as a rental to make extra income.

The healthcare System is very affordable easy access. No insurance is needed to get Healthcare in Australia. Drugs are bought in bulk and cheap as candy.

The list goes on.

So looking from that Society in Australia to America where insurance is hundreds of dollars, if not thousands for a family, a month. And people go bankrupt for healthcare. Children have semi automatic guns and kill each other at school. A president can be openly erratic and corrupt and nothing is done about it. The majority of people are forced into renting property an exorbitant rents and can barely afford to own a small city house or save for s decent one. Children are forced into high interest rate student loans to be indentured Financial slaves the rest of their adult life. The list goes on but you can see how people in Australia can think Americans have a broken Society. Billionaires control our society and create the majority of Americans, American businesses, as indentured Financial slaves. The NRA pays Millions to allow children to have guns in America.

Neat, lets compare a country that is 13 times smaller with nothing but anecdotal evidence.

OMG eight to ten children dead plus a dozen wounded.

Empathy without a desire to actually solve the problem makes no sense. The U.S stands alone in 1st world countries with this problem. All others applied the same solution with a 100% success rate in terms of significant impact. Logic comes into play at some point here. Thoughts and prayers mean nothing if you have no stomach for the action required to solve the problem. The solution has been handed to the U.S. on a silver platter with indisputable data. The U.S. is different than Spain and the UK. As the UK is from Japan and Italy is from Australia. The U.S.'s only difference is the intellectual density of their gun nuts and their unwillingness to reason or find a new hobby that makes them feel tough.

How big your Society is has nothing to do with the issues I addressed.

It's like you an alt-right Canadian comparing yourself to alt-right Americans. You both are exactly the same type of men; hateful bitter people who think you're better than everyone else with your gang mentality composed of incompetent, unsuccessful, poorly educated, impotent, high financial debt, old middle aged, lazy men.

bad news for sure....

dear crocket,

inanimate objects do not make decisions or take actions to kill people. you would find many more adherents to your views if you confined yourself to reality... just sayin'

from grape, out in vineland

I don't feel that I was that overbearing on MrBB. I know and understand other countries don't get America, especially the 2nd amendment.

I felt it important to disagree that America is a broken society.

That's simply not true at all, in fact, quite the opposite is true, in spite of the things you mention, American society embraces many many good things, I see them on a daily basis. I'd imagine you do too.

Children make stupid decisions, especially high school children with raging hormones.

Children are allowed to have guns in America.

That's stupid.

This generation of kids that have grown up with gun violence in schools will change everything so what you think about it really doesn't matter in the end and you and I will be dead soon enough.

I feel sorry for the American kids that the adults are so brain dead.
And when I see Trump sending prayers to the families it makes me want to jam an AK up his ass.

His ass is too loose, you'd have to use a grenade launcher for him to feel it

Its funny, that everytime there is a mass shooting.. The argument is always "dont politicize it" as a way to shoot down any argument about gun control..

How many time will Paul Ryan say.. "this isnt the time for a debate on gun control".. Literally every fucking shooting those words come out of his slimy mouth..

Amazing the only thing Republicans dont want to politicalize is fucking gun control..

mocking a school shooting for political points v. a discussion re: gun control laws and what to do about gun violence are 2 different things.