My thought for the day:

[dogtowner]

According to the Washington Post (citing Department of Education data), "...the statistical likelihood of any given public school student being killed by a gun, in school, on any given day since 1999 was roughly 1 in 614,000,000. And since the 1990s, shootings at schools have been getting less common." To put that into perspective, students are more likely to get struck by lighting, die after being hit by a falling meteorite, be killed by a shark, or in more common instances, other statistics show they are much more likely to die falling off their bike on their way to school, getting in a car crash, or dying from an injury while playing school sports.

If "every kid in this country" (as claimed by March for Our Lives) goes to school wondering if they will get shot - why? This fear appears to be irrational and grounded in no actual evidence. Who is telling them that they should feel unsafe?

George Soros

 

[dogtowner]

That is certainly a cold conservative NRA way of looking at things. Dying is not all there is to it. Lightning or a meteorite is fast and unexpected. Hearing gun fire and screaming and finding your friends are being killed one by one produces a long lived terror.

A bike ride, sports, a car crash. Is also sudden and unexpected. A person feels that they have at least some degree of control to prevent that. You have no control when you or your friends are in the sights of a mad killer with a gun.

Any more or less dead ?

 

[Texas_tea]

I'd be willing to bet the ones in that picture will.
and there's no evidence they've been "rented by Soros."

( LMAO)Laughing my Ass off at the Sheeple ......

https://www.mrc.org/special-reports...march-partners-funded-left-wing-billionaire-0

https://heavy.com/news/2018/03/who-is-funding-paying-for-march-for-our-lives/

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/24/went-march-lives-protest-7-takeaways/

 

[Texas_tea]

Yes, there is.
Time will tell on the voting. May not matter, does not seem to be much interest in constitutional amendments on either side of the aisle. So who do they vote for ?

The reality escapes our extremist friends.

They are blinded by Russian ghost.

 

[Texas_tea]

Most of the kids in this picture will be old enough to vote in 2020.

Isn't it wonderful what the Left is able to recreate .... the message they continue to push .... for literally multiple decades.

 

[Texas_tea]

 

[Texas_tea]

 

[Texas_tea]

That is certainly a cold conservative NRA way of looking at things. Dying is not all there is to it. Lightning or a meteorite is fast and unexpected. Hearing gun fire and screaming and finding your friends are being killed one by one produces a long lived terror.

A bike ride, sports, a car crash. Is also sudden and unexpected. A person feels that they have at least some degree of control to prevent that. You have no control when you or your friends are in the sights of a mad killer with a gun.

Ask yourself ....

Was that mad killer with a gun a participant in B. Hussein's and Eric Holder's PROMISE Program?

 

[Lagboltz]

The data is the data. The simple fact is that being killed in a school shooting is incredibly unlikely.

I'm not arguing the statistics, I'm just remarking on your callous attitude toward a frightening traumatic incident for kids.

 

[PLC1]

( LMAO)Laughing my Ass off at the Sheeple ......

https://www.mrc.org/special-reports...march-partners-funded-left-wing-billionaire-0

https://heavy.com/news/2018/03/who-is-funding-paying-for-march-for-our-lives/

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/24/went-march-lives-protest-7-takeaways/

You mean the sheeple who read obscure right wing blogs and base their opinions on what they see there?

 

[Old_Trapper70]

The data is the data. The simple fact is that being killed in a school shooting is incredibly unlikely.

Problem is, and you wish all to ignore, the odds are increasing, and the kids are scared. So, when are you going to become a school guard? You have nothing better to do, and you don't want to protect anyone else in the community.

 

[Old_Trapper70]

( LMAO)Laughing my Ass off at the Sheeple ......

https://www.mrc.org/special-reports...march-partners-funded-left-wing-billionaire-0

https://heavy.com/news/2018/03/who-is-funding-paying-for-march-for-our-lives/

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/24/went-march-lives-protest-7-takeaways/

Why are you laughing at a mirror? Fools, and liars, post ********* such as you do, as is consistently demonstrated. In all of your asinine links Soros is mentioned twice. Once as a supporter of the "100 Women's March Partners", and then as a supporter of MoveOn.org. No where does it mention, or even imply, that he paid for the March For Our Lives organization. Even someone as stupid as you should have seen that.

 

[Old_Trapper70]

Ask yourself ....

Was that mad killer with a gun a participant in B. Hussein's and Eric Holder's PROMISE Program?

Agaiun demonstrating the ignorance of the right wing idiot who is susceptible to any suggestion buy his handlers. The "Promise Program" by Obama is a scholarship program for worthy minority students who pass certain qualifications like graduating, something you obviously never accomplished. The "Restorative Justice Program", started under George W. Bush (even though it is thousands of years old) is the one where schools do not report student crimes to the police, and even that does not qualify here since the cops were called over 30 times, and the kid was in therapy until he turned 18, and then refused treatment.

Mod edit: personal insult redacted.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/molly-rowan-leach/restorative-justice-is-on_b_3612022.html

In fact, Obama's Promise Program had not even been instituted in Florida:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.go...et-president-obama-s-promise-zones-initiative

https://innovation.ed.gov/what-we-do/parental-options/promise-neighborhoods-pn/

 

[Old_Trapper70]

George Soros

Mod edit: deleted due to personal insult.

 

[BigRob]

I'm not arguing the statistics, I'm just remarking on your callous attitude toward a frightening traumatic incident for kids.

School shootings are horrible events and everyone wants to see them stopped immediately.

The undeniable fact is that for the vast majority of school children their only experience with a mass shooting at school is doing drills and being led to believe by adults that such a situation is much more likely than it actually is. If you want to enact public policy that will actually make a difference it is time to drop the emotional appeals and examine the facts and data surrounding the situation.