1. I’m not convinced that you’d accept the cost, financed through greater taxation, of making ‘bullet proof rooms’.
2. Even if, you can’t make bullet proof school grounds, unless you believe that schools should essentially convert to prisons.
1. I’m not convinced that you’d accept the cost, financed through greater taxation, of making ‘bullet proof rooms’.
Swallow a spider to catch a fly.
Jersey Girl wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:32 pm… for the life of me I don't know what we can do when our elected officials are focused protecting their own status instead of protecting one of our most vulnerable populations.
I’ll admit - even in my own situation - that I’m a hard sell for the idea that we can or should aim to ‘outlaw assault weapons’ in general, due to how difficult that label is to define, and based on the fact that the Second Amendment exists. However, I am enthusiastically on board for this incomplete list:When I see the desecration of a safe space, a place of discovery like this, it hurts my brain and my heart.
Yes, I know. How do we do that now? How do we get our elected officials to approve one?honorentheos wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 5:02 amWe've had an assault weapons ban that held up in courts. Its not too hard to define, and I think it's common sense.
How? Vote the ones out who won't. Its not going to happen immediately but it's probably going to in the reasonably near future if the race to protect access to fair voting doesn't fall to the one game plan they have left: attack democratic voting processes under pretense of obvious lies.Jersey Girl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 5:12 amYes, I know. How do we do that now? How do we get our elected officials to approve one?honorentheos wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 5:02 amWe've had an assault weapons ban that held up in courts. Its not too hard to define, and I think it's common sense.
Go to hell.