Airforceone

I want all you Trump supporters before you go to bed tonight to kneel at your bed and pray to god, let my son daughter or grandson at the age of 7 8 and 9 years old be slaughtered in a classroom by an 18 year old kid who walked into a gun shop and bought two assault rifles and full body armor. By just slapping his driver license down.

Then tell me the only thing that can be done is absolutely nothing. And I promise I will send my thoughts and prayers to your family.

And as you bury your kids or kids tell me this is okay.

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

Which one of those 7 bills contributed to this heinous act?

son of witless

Have you ever thought that the answer is to secure soft targets such as schools ? Having secure entrances and armed Police in the schools.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

People like Airforceone who wish death on other people's children, have no brain, so he can't think.

Liberty Tree

He is not worth reading or given a response.

BIRDMAN

God bless Texas

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Amen!! 👍👍👍👍

AlexT

Arm the teachers who are willing to carry a weapon. No more BS. FJB.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

👍👍👍

okie don

How about this kid who quite hi school and spent hours, weeks etc on these stupid video kill games.
Mental case with no parental guidance.

okie don

Look at Chicago, New York & California who all have strick gun laws. Shooting is wild in those gun laws states.

Rose42

How is AF1 not banned while Sicilianthing is? AF1 is worse

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

My thoughts exactly!!👍👍

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

You are one sick low-life cretin. There is a lot that can be done if you will take a moment and think about this and how stupid your comment sounds. But, as usual, you frame your comment in the language of liberalese. The sickest events always draw you out of your seclusion in your mother's basement...

How do you feel about abortion or the death penalty; for or against?


https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/betos-disgraceful-interruption-was-a-wholly-empty-gesture/
Beto’s Disgraceful Interruption Was a Wholly Empty Gesture

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke disrupts a press conference held by Governor Greg Abbott the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, May 25, 2022.
By CHARLES C. W. COOKE
May 25, 2022 2:15 PM

This afternoon, Beto O’Rourke disgracefully interrupted a press conference about the shooting in Uvalde so that he could shout at Governor Greg Abbott:


O’Rourke told Abbott, “This is on you.”

I’d like to know what he meant by this. The only thing I can think of is that O’Rourke believes that Texas should have banned the AR-15 that the killer used in his spree. But, when asked about that very issue in February, O’Rourke made it clear that he opposed such a move. Here’s ABC:

Speaking to reporters, O’Rourke also took a question about his controversial stance on guns and remarks made in 2019 about taking away AR-15s and AK-47s.

“I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone. What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment,” he said. “I want to make sure that we protect our fellow Texans far better than we’re doing right now. And that we listen to law enforcement, which Greg Abbott refused to do. He turned his back on them when he signed that permitless carry bill that endangers the lives of law enforcement in a state that’s seen more cops and sheriff’s deputies gunned down than in any other.”

Obviously, Texas’s permitless carry law has absolutely nothing to do with what happened in Uvalde. I’m sure that, before the day is out, the press will ask for a detailed explanation of what O’Rourke believes Abbott has done wrong.


https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/no-joe-scarborough-nobody-in-texas-has-gutted-the-gun-laws-at-issue-in-uvalde/
No, Joe Scarborough, Nobody in Texas Has ‘Gutted’ the Gun Laws at Issue in Uvalde

By CHARLES C. W. COOKE
May 25, 2022 3:47 PM

Joe Scarborough tweets:

This isn’t true. Texas has had the same laws governing the purchase of rifles for decades, and none of the people in that “picture” have “gutted” any of them. The 1968 Gun Control Act set the rifle-buying age at 18, and, since then, Texas has followed suit. As a matter of fact, the only changes made in this area since that point have been issued by the federal government, and those served to tighten, rather than to loosen, the rules. In 1993, Congress passed the NICS background-check system (which the shooter in Uvalde passed).

I understand that Joe Scarborough would like what happened to be Greg Abbott’s fault. But it really isn’t. Indeed, not a single law that Abbott has signed since he became governor even intersects with what happened yesterday. From start to finish, Texas’s laws would have treated this purchase in exactly the same way in 2012, 2002, 1992, 1982, and so on. One can certainly argue that this should change — although, as ever, one has an obligation to explain exactly how — but one should not blame politicians for phantom alterations that neither they, nor anyone else, have made.


https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2018/02/15/flashback-30-years-guns-schools-nothing-happened-n124076
Flashback 30 Years: Guns Were in Schools... and Nothing Happened
BY J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS FEB 15, 2018 5:30 AM ET

AP Photo/Paul Sancya
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2018.

The millennial generation might be surprised to learn that theirs is the first without guns in school. Just 30 years ago, high school kids rode the bus with rifles and shot their guns at high school rifle ranges.

After another school shooting, it’s time to ask: what changed?

Cross guns off the list of things that changed in thirty years. In 1985, semi-automatic rifles existed, and a semi-automatic rifle was used in Florida. Guns didn’t suddenly decide to visit mayhem on schools. Guns can’t decide.

We can also cross the Second Amendment off the list. It existed for over 200 years before this wickedness unfolded. Nothing changed in the Constitution.

That leaves us with some uncomfortable possibilities remaining. What has changed from thirty years ago when kids could take firearms into school responsibly and today might involve some difficult truths.

Let’s inventory the possibilities.

What changed? The mainstreaming of nihilism. Cultural decay. Chemicals. The deliberate destruction of moral backstops in the culture. A lost commonality of shared societal pressures to enforce right and wrong. And above all, simple, pure, evil.

Before you retort that we can’t account for the mentally ill, they existed forever.

Paranoid schizophrenics existed in 1888 and 2018. Mentally ill students weren’t showing up in schools with guns even three decades ago.

So it must be something else.

Those who have been so busy destroying the moral backstops in our culture won’t want to have this conversation. They’ll do what they do — mock the truth.

There was a time in America, before the Snowflakes, when any adult on the block could reprimand a neighborhood kid who was out of line without fear.

Even thirty years ago, the culture still had invisible restraints developed over centuries. Those restraints, those leveling commonalities, were the target of a half-century of attack by the freewheeling counterculture that has now become the dominant replacement culture.

Hollywood made fun of these restraints in films too numerous to list.

The sixties mantra “don’t trust anyone over thirty” has become a billion-dollar industry devoted to the child always being right — a sometimes deeply medicated brat who disrupts the classroom or escapes what used to be resolved with a paddling.

Instead of telling the kid to quit kicking the back of the seat on a plane, we buy seat guards to protect the seat.

If you think it’s bad now, just wait until the generation whose babysitter is an iPhone is in high school. You can hardly walk around Walmart these days without tripping over a toddler in a trance, staring at a screen.

The high school kids who shot rifles in school in 1985 were taught right and wrong. They were taught what to do with their rifle in school, and what not to do. If they got out of line, all the other students and the coach would have come down on them hard. There were no safe spaces, and that was a good thing.

Culture is a powerful force for good. When good behavior is normalized and deviant destructive behavior is ostracized, shamed, and marginalized, you get more good behavior.

Considering evil in this debate makes some of you uncomfortable, but evil bathes all of these shootings. I am reminded of Justice Antonin Scalia’s spectacularly funny and profound interview in 2013 when he toyed with a New Yorker reporter about evil. “You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil!”, he chortled.

Thirty years ago, kids who brought their rifles to the high school shooting range didn’t wonder about evil and cultural decay. They simply lived in a time in America when right and wrong were more starkly defined, where expectations about behavior were clear, and wickedness hadn’t been normalized.

The idea that guns caused the carnage we have faced is so intellectually bankrupt that it isn’t worth discussing. Remembering where we were as a nation just 30 years ago makes it even more so. It’s time to ask what changed.

My added note:
I went to school during a time when students carried their shotguns in the rifle rack of their truck in which they drove to school. We had a shooting range on campus underneath the administration building. We had a competition shooting team and gun club on campus. This wasn't out in the sticks. This was in a large metropolitan urban city.