Enough with platitudes; take action on shootings
I’m getting tired of our cowardly politicians mouthing their prayers and thoughts to the victims of school shootings and their families. It’s time for the politicians to take action instead of mouthing meaningless words.
But this will pass. The media will go on to the next high-profile story and, in probably less then one month, we will once again be talking about a child walking into a school and killing other children. This will be accompanied by more “prayers and thoughts” from our spineless political leaders.
If prayers worked then whatever god you worship would have stopped this carnage a long time ago. Or maybe we were given a brain and the free will to do something about this without the intervention of a higher power.
There should be a law in every state that makes it a crime with significant punishment for parents who are so careless with their guns that they allow their minor children to just walk out of the house with them as if they were carrying their lunch to school.
The same should apply for those who leave a loaded gun laying around for their 6 year old to pick up. Exam your conscience. Is the NRA your god?
Our kids have been programmed to crave and act out violence
As long as our society glorifies violence, alcohol and drugs we will continue to have tragedies such as the latest shooting in Texas.
Children are brainwashed from a very young age that violence is an acceptable answer to their problems. Just look at the TV programs, movies and music that encourage violent behavior.
Alcohol advertisements make drinking seem like the end all, be all for social acceptance. Recreational drugs are the answer to dealing with stress, a headache or fill in the blank. We have become a society of pathetic enablers and then wonder why our children cannot handle day-to-day stress.
Video games encourage rage among our young people as well as desensitizing them to react without thinking. Why are we surprised when our kids act out? After all, they have been preprogrammed for years!
Hold parents responsible when they don’t lock up their guns
The governor of Texas is going to hold a meeting to explore how to stop school shootings. How about starting at home.
Parents have no right to leave guns where they are readily available to anyone, particularly a child. Given what happened in Texas, parents who don’t secure guns should be held responsible.
Well, here we go again. Another mass shooting in a school but nothing meaningful will be done. Trump ordered flags to go half-staff, which is just basically meaningless.
Last time this happened Trump was going to take a small step and ban the use of bump stocks that allow weapons to mimick automatic weapons fire. However, for some strange reason, the extremist NRA told Trump and the GOP to forget it.
Now Trump proposes to raise the ages of those who wish to purchase a gun. This probably will be shot down by his masters at the NRA. It really doesn’t matter, as this will do little to solve the problem.
Two things need to happen immediately. A universal background check and a ban on assault weapons for civilians. The only use of these weapons is to kill many in a short period of time.
People must voice their outrage through the voting booths in upcoming elections.
Will #RedForEd schoolteachers ever stop their complaining?
It didn’t take long for more complaints to start coming from the #RedForEd teachers. I spoke with two teachers in Tucson who are now complaining that the 20-percent raise they receive will be eaten up by the property tax increase they just got on their homes or through their rent.
If they cannot afford an increase, think how we taxpayers feel about contributing to their pay raise plus the property tax increase.
We did not get that 20 percent increase in pay. It makes me wonder how smart these teacher really are.