There Is No ‘Epidemic of Mass School Shootings’

My God… is this the left’s argument for “safety”?

On Tuesday in Tallahassee, Republicans in Florida’s state legislature advanced a law that aims to put one police officer — and ten gun-wielding teachers — into every public school in the state. The $67 million “school marshal” program would provide teachers who volunteer to be emergency gunslingers with a $500 stipend, a background check, drug test, psychological exam, and 132 hours of training. In total, the bill’s school safety measures come at a price tag of $400 million.

So, whatever happened to “if one life can be saved”? Since there is a direct correlation between the advent of “gun free zones” and an increase of mass shootings, what more could they want? This is far more strict than the normal CHL. What opposition to this represents is exposure of what the real goal is: total disarmament, which would not be “total” at all.

And if the bill’s gun reforms cannot be separated from its “school marshal” program and expansion of classroom cops, then Florida’s young people might end up worse off than they’d be if their elected leaders had simply ignored the Parkland massacre, like so many mass shootings before it.

Well, the Columbine shooting was NOT ignored, was it? Afterwards, we got the “Assault Weapon Ban” which accomplished… absolutely nothing. Because, long guns are rarely used in crimes.

After the atrocity at Columbine High School in 1999, America tested the hypothesis that a massive increase in school policing would lead to lower rates of violence on campus — in 1997, 10 percent of public schools employed at least one police officer; by 2014, 30 percent did. The results of this experiment have been worse than disappointing. The best available research suggests that putting police officers in schools does not significantly deter crime — but does increase the number of students who end up incarcerated for minor youthful indiscretions (and/or, who get electrocuted with stun guns in their classrooms for the same).

Herein you will find the core stupidity of the left’s argument. Had Obama’s executive order to ignored crimes and misbehavior committed by minorities, which constitutes MOST of the internal problems within schools, Cruz would have had over 40 incidents on his record indicating dangerous violent and erratic behavior. His multiple expulsions from schools would be recorded. The 45 or so police calls to his places of residence would be documented. IF (and that is a big if) the proper authorities had done their job evaluating this information, filled the proper blanks and checked the appropriate boxes, Cruz could have NEVER bought a weapon… the famed “background checks” most agree upon and support. No, scrap that. The left wants to excuse bad behavior, ignore dangerous precedents and excuse violent tendencies and, instead, blame an instrument of metal, wood and plastic for crimes.

Arming teachers, meanwhile, is a proposal so mind-bogglingly dumb and dangerous, even Florida’s GOP governor Rick Scott rejects it. There is no evidence whatsoever that adding a not-so-well regulated militia of amateur marksmen to every school faculty will prevent mass shootings, when armed guards have consistently failed to do so

To make the liberal argument, you have to ignore reality.

In 2017, researchers estimated that, in a given school year, 589 children are corporally punished (most often struck with paddles) every day. Unsurprisingly, this violent discipline is disproportionately inflicted on students of color.

So, teachers, the vast majority of whom are liberal, are racist. Nice.

In a representative year, school authorities pinned down, tied up, or otherwise restrained 267,000 American schoolchildren, three-quarters of whom had some kind of disability; such practices have resulted in multiple fatalities.

Is it a rule in the liberal handbook to overlook the obvious 100% of the time? Did it ever occur to liberals that there might… just MIGHT… be a discipline problem in schools and, due to the ongoing poverty of minorities and the influx of illegal immigrant children in schools, this MIGHT result in minorities being disproportionally (but not necessarily unfairly) represented in disciplinary problems? No, by all means, do NOT look at decades of liberal policies regarding excising discipline from society and consider how they have failed and created an open-ended monster. DON’T do that… it’s racist.

If the policy response to the Parkland shooting ends up hurting more American students than it helps, the lion’s share of responsibility will lie with the Republican Party. The Parkland survivors have been as emphatic in their rejection of arming teachers as they’ve been in their support for gun restrictions — and they’ve won the general public to their side of both issues.

There you go… the money shot. No matter what happens, the results will be the Republican’s fault. Follow our (liberals) recommendations, but if the the violence continues or gets worse, it’s because Republicans didn’t go far enough. Now, in that case, what could we possibly do? HEY! I have it!! Ban more guns!!

Not one more. We cannot allow one more child to be shot at school. We cannot allow one more teacher to make a choice to jump in front of a firing assault rifle to save the lives of students. We cannot allow one more family to wait for a call or text that never comes. Our schools are unsafe. Our children and teachers are dying. We must make it our top priority to save these lives.

“But, we are against discipline, arming teachers, ending “gun free zones” and documenting behavioral problems.” In other words, kill more… it’s good for the gun control business.

March For Our Lives is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.

This is how stupid liberals think people are. No, really.

Criminal victimization in American schools has collapsed in tandem with the overall crime rate, leaving U.S. classrooms safer today than at any time in recent memory.

A remarkable admission. Yet, on the rare occasions these tragedies DO occur, the left is loathe to look at the actual causes and, instead, scrambles to further their gun control agenda… thus leaving in place the elements which bring about these tragedies.

If mass school shootings were the only form of gun violence in the United States, the case for treating the regulation of firearms as a pressing policy issue would actually be fairly weak.

And yet, here we are. The left will continue to ignore the deadly failure of the policies in their liberal cities they wish to enact nationally.

They’ve stiffened the spines of Democratic gun safety advocates

As this article highlights, “safety” is the least of their concerns. Disarmament is the goal. If that were not true, they would not be pursuing the LEAST likely means to make the public safer and ignoring (at great effort) the glaring failures of the very big government the left clamors to “protect” us. If the Democrats had spines that could be stiffened, they could take an introspective look into their own policies and souls and admit they are making society more dangerous, not safer.

But to ensure that those contributions aren’t shadowed by the unintended consequences of overheated rhetoric, the March for Our Lives and its supporters must take pains to ensure that their advocacy always affirms this basic truth: Schools don’t kill people, guns kill people.

Yes, by all means, liberals, don’t overplay your hand and force the enactment of actual SOLUTIONS. Gee, if liberals ran out of mass shootings, what would they have to exploit to promote gun bans?

I see old George Cloonney is so darn proud about the Useful idiots for Gun Control noting the facts of all the movies he has made where guns were used and people killed this Hollywood Dip-Wad is just another liberal celeberty to boycott