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ITSNOTSAFE's avatar

I've seen those eyes -- and think they are usually on the face of an abuser. The last think the victim of a murder sees in their oppressor. When you think on it the eyes of those wielding AK-47 weapons inside the classrooms of our babies. The ones who survived and the ones whose only remains are blood, flesh and bones splattered; all of them the last thing they saw in the last human face they were forced by captivity to focus were dead eyes.

When this is all over let's get guns (not the right to bear) but the freaking guns off our streets and exist more like our allied nations where their children do not have part of their schooling be how to survive a stranger bursting into their lives in what for all appearances was a space for learning and safe with a machine gun.

Unimaginable that we cannot provide for our children when our allied democratic countries do it with such ease. Why? Because we are not in charge. How? Well, never again but because we yielded our power which is the greatest in the world when we unite surrendering to prejudice, fear and division. A direct result to the fact on the whole we did not see ourselves as the victims of a deliberate strategy to weaken us for the kill.

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Linda Brown's avatar

I agree about the guns. We have the right to bear arms but not weapons of war. Even AR-15s are small stuff compared to military assault rifles like AK-47s. And don't tell me you need them to hunt deer. By definition, they're accurate to 1700'--almost six football fields-- and are designed for killing as many people as possible. Get rid of the damned things.

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ITSNOTSAFE's avatar

We are an isolated nation populated in the majority by people who have never traveled outside the country other than maybe a brief cruise or tour.

We on the whole are completely ignorant as to how backward we have become under the influence of special interest groups that make money in growing their product whatever it might be that is designed to profit not serve and in fact harms us.

I am aware of what life is like outside our isolated space and it makes it very difficult for me and others like me to speak up for once we do it is put down as THE LIBS and other cheap shots that people gobble up.

It is literally POLITICALLY INCORRECT to do the right thing for the people. Every good proposal is shot down and accepted by the majority as “socialism” and “too liberal” even a sensible response to the borderline crisis. The only game in town is holding power and making a profit. And that agenda is not serving “we the people” of this country.

Most of us would be shocked at the quality of life sustained outside this country. Education. Prioritizing Children. Prioritizing Families. Health Care.

When you bring up the elephant in the room which is today you get tarred and feathered.

But my God why would anyone send their child to a public school where the probability they will be killed is high; and the probability they will hear of another child being killed is 100%? Of course, it will follow that their learning is disabled by the anxiety of this knowledge far too much for a young child to comprehend but it is in fact their normal.

I would not send my child to public school today and there are no affordable private schools, but they are in fact no safer. Isn’t that fucked that in a way our children have nowhere safe and nowhere that is serving them 100% in this country to receive an education.

That is a fact! And we accept it!

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