Amen.
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Amen.
at 13, as things are now, they can sign there way slips, can not be detained in any way, meaning if he is going to leave at 2 in the morning, I can not stop him , refuse any treatment, pretty much do what they want with nothing but verbal repercussions, yet we as parents are suppose to be responsible for there actions when they take away all my rights as parent and give them to the kid.
its ridiculous.
its ridiculous.
Everything is getting ridiculous these days.
They tell you not to pray in school(I did anyway).
That you can't defend yourself if attacked
(A life is worth more than any rule or law in my opinion).
They ban ferrets in California even though hot weather kills them and ferrets have very little survival instincts.
They r recommending inserting chips so they can be returned if found,most of the ferrets are used to hunt rats and rabbits.
Exotic animals are actually stolen very often
Parrots,boss,pythons,flamingos,koi,tigers,lions,alligators and sharks are not uncommon.
There have even been koalas and meerkats stolen on rare ocassions.
I was at the zoo once and some nut wanted to steal one of the meetkats.
Yes.
Um.... what happens when a kid starts playing with a "ridiculously high powered weapon" when the teacher isn't alert enough?
I am not a gun control nut, but I do not believe in forcing guns on people or arming teachers. Every form of gun violence in the US that has directly effected someone I know was from either someone mistreating a gun, or a kid playing with one. Arming kids (and teachers) with rocks will make people feel better, and keep guns out of the hands of people who will hurt themselves with them. I think it is a good idea, just as the Cold War air raid drills were a good idea; they made people feel better, didn't hurt antone, and would have been 100% ineffective had they been needed.
There should be training with all these firearms such as proper training,with that being said as with any tool accidents do occur,for example few people want to ban cars yet they are many times more difficult to safely operate than a standard firearm,
You also should remember that not to long ago most people in the world owned firearms,and the British and French were some of the best firearms makers in the world .
Man that would be a great place to start
Hello; So do something you acknowledge up front will be 100% ineffective instead of something that has a chance of working?
I went thru the cold war air raid drills as a child and do agree that getting under my desk in a crouch would have been pointless when an A-bomb went off.
I get the point about doing something pointless even if it is only a useless "feel good " gesture. Even tho I get the point, I do not agree with it. A box of rocks is just barely better than nothing and the school is still a "soft target" zone.
I do not pretend to know the statistics, but I am not sure arming teachers will make things safer either. My point before was that an unqualified person with a gun is worse then no gun. If the choice is do something that makes people feel good but changes nothing, or to create a situation that may be more dangerous and is definitely more expensive than the previous one, I would choose the first.
Yes, that could work. You do have to remember that such training would be expensive, time consuming, and that the people you are training (the teachers) may not want the guns, which will make teaching them much harder.
Hello? You are expecting Californians to be sane?