Shooting at Apalachee High School

[hammerofglass]

My Dad is a pro Trump MAGA kind of voter. He is 74 years old. He grew up on a dairy farm for his first 20 years of his life. He used guns and all that. Even he doesn't understand how people treat guns now. He says they act like they are toys. To him they were tools you used on the farm and he doesn't understand how guns got that way.

I'm not even 40 and the gun culture today isn't anything like what the one I grew up in. The stuff your dad said, but also the fetishization of the AR-15 and variants is new. Twenty years ago that gun was considered kind of mid among semi-automatic rifles just in that caliber, but these days it's the "look at me I'm a Gun Owner and therefore a Big Boy" weapon of choice.

[Nobody700]

People are already calling this fake.

I hate Twitter.

[m4a2000]

So I was confused for a good three hours thinking my sister and her kids lived nearby to remembering they were a state over to back to thinking they were nearby.

Doesn't help matters I work in a high school and in a week or two we are doing our lockdown drills. How is it my job in education has more safety issues than any number of more 'dangerous' jobs.

[McAvoy]

People are already calling this fake.

I hate Twitter.

It happens. Look, we got people on the Left side thinking Trump's nearcassasination as being fake too when it happened. Doesn't help that his ear injury healed pretty quick too.

But I don't subscribe that this was some false flag thing that Trump created.

Its just dumb idiots trying to be counter to everything.

[Thebestoftherest]

I mean, Trump a coward there no way he would do that becaause there a good chance they might miss.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Shit like this is why I hate people who say they "don't care about politics". If you don't care about politics, you don't care about school shootings.

That text message from the sixteen year old girl broke something in me.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Shit like this is why I hate people who say they "don't care about politics". If you don't care about politics, you don't care about school shootings.

That text message from the sixteen year old girl broke something in me.

Whenever you have two comprehensive sides on an issue you are going to inevitably have an indifferent third party... Or as I call them, the system anomaly.

[Nealithi]

Shit like this is why I hate people who say they "don't care about politics". If you don't care about politics, you don't care about school shootings.

That text message from the sixteen year old girl broke something in me.

Whenever you have two comprehensive sides on an issue you are going to inevitably have an indifferent third party... Or as I call them, the system anomaly.

Are they comprehensive though? Or just opposing?
Fuzzy is wrong. I don't care about politics. You do not vote for someone based on weighing the pros and cons of the candidates. You pick the lesser evil. Trump got the nomination, I am voting anti-Trump. Biden had my vote. He stepped down, it goes to Harris. I do not know her stance or any hollow promises she has, she isn't him.
School shootings piss me off. Dead children do not please me. The left will toss out some blanket bill with no actual aim to curb these events, but to push an agenda. The right not wanting the left to have any sympathy will simply deny horrific events. Color me not surprised.

The shooter is in custody and will be tried. I want to hear that something that will actually improve safety is going to implemented. No locking the doors is not good enough. We already have a hero of a child in another school that blocked a door with his own body. Taking bullets through his torso to save fellow students.
How did the school fail to see this person bring in a full sized rifle?

Oh and what got my attention, was a news piece just a few days before this happened. A school spent a small fortune on little bags to make the students lock those damn cellphones up during school hours. They need the magnets on the way out to open the pouches. Rather glad this school did not have those.

[Thebestoftherest]

That sounds bad, so they couldn't call for help if need be. I guess they could use a land line but I feel that might have problems.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Shit like this is why I hate people who say they "don't care about politics". If you don't care about politics, you don't care about school shootings.

That text message from the sixteen year old girl broke something in me.

Whenever you have two comprehensive sides on an issue you are going to inevitably have an indifferent third party... Or as I call them, the system anomaly.

Are they comprehensive though? Or just opposing?
Fuzzy is wrong. I don't care about politics. You do not vote for someone based on weighing the pros and cons of the candidates. You pick the lesser evil.

If you vote, you care. Picking the lesser evil is a form of weighing pros and cons, or at the very least weighing the cons.

What disgusts me so much is the apathy that leads people to say "they both suck. What does it matter? I won't vote because they're both assholes."