can we please all just agree that the plan to put more firearms in school by arming teachers or other staff members as a way to increase school safety/decrease school shootings is asinine?
the anniversary of the montreal massacre is coming up on december 6th.
in 1989 on december 6th a 25 year old male entered the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school, with the intent to “fight feminism”. he made his way into a classroom and separated the male and female students, called the 9 women “a bunch of feminists” and shot the women, killing 6 of them. he advanced through the hallways, went into the cafeteria, another classroom, his only targets were women. at the end of it he killed 14 women, injured 10 other women, and injured 4 men all in under twenty minutes before turning the gun on himself. in his suicide note, this man claimed political motives and also blamed feminists for ruining his life which included a list of 19 women that he labeled as feminists and wanted kill.
december 6th in canada is known as National Day of Rememberance and Action on Violence Against Women where flags are flown at half-mast, a moment of silence is encouraged to be observed, and a white ribbon to be worn.
the victims names:
Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department
Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student
There’s no 24-hour news coverage for this story. There’s no tearful press conference. There’s no memorial full of flowers and stuffed animals. There’s no outrage.
Because this time, a good woman with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun, and no one else was hurt.
I am so glad that woman had her pistol. She did exactly the right thing - she shot the guy before he could hurt anyone.
You won’t see these stories, because there really isn’t much of a story. Only one person died, and it was the bad guy. Move on, go about your day.
The media will convince you that America has a “gun violence problem,” despite the U.S. being NUMBER ELEVEN for deaths per capita from mass public shootings out of just Europe, U.S., and Canada.
Yet stories like this one happen every day, as many as 1.67 million times in 2021 (in fact, that averages to 4,575 per day), where a gun owner defends themselves or their family using their firearm against a would-be attacker.
It is FAR more common for a responsible gun owner to defend themselves against an attacker than for a crazy person to commit a mass public shooting.
“my thoughts and prayers are with the victims families”
politicians should ask themselves how many times they’ve said that phrase in the past 22 years and then come back and tell us how much their “thoughts and prayers” have worked. they don’t mean shit when children are still being murdered in classrooms and no one in power is getting off their ass to do anything about it.
America’s relationship with guns is a sickness. Speaking as someone outside of the country, in a country with guns but also common sense gun control, it is like watching a two year old continually grab their own foot and fall over, get outraged, then do it again and again and again expecting a different result.
mmmmm another mass shooting in the usa - 4 dead on a school hospital campus in tulsa - too bad nothing will happen about it. Again. It isn’t like common sense gun control wouldn’t help here or anything- mmmmmmthoughtsandprayersmmmm.
At the time the Second Amendment was written in 1791, the military’s personal firearms were muskets and flintlock pistols. Muskets can fire one round at a time before reloading; in the most expertly trained and talented hands, a musket could fire THREE rounds per MINUTE. Three. The Founding Fathers could not have conceived of a weapon in the hands of an untrained citizen that could kill dozens more than their experts could fire in the same amount of time.
Should citizens have access to firearms? Yes. Should the United States have gun control laws? Also yes. This is not an oxymoron.
twice in my life, i’ve been in lockdown at a school.
once was in kindergarten, where a suspect was coming down the street towards my school. just a random criminal, i believe. nothing major.
the second time was in high school, i believe my junior year. it was lunchtime. i went to go use the bathroom, but i heard the intercom turn on and warn people to get inside. the audio wasn’t great, but i remember hearing ‘go to the nearest classroom’ and running back to the classroom i ate lunch in.
turns out that the school that was a half a mile down the street from mine got a school shooter threat.
they’re lucky - they have a fence.
my school doesn’t.
we’re wide open and exposed.
thankfully, it was only a threat and both the high schools in question only came out of that with the knowledge that they were threatened.
i hate that i am saying that the two schools were lucky in that they were only threatened.
because being unlucky means you get on the news and on wikipedia. being unlucky means there’s a number of students and teachers who were unfairly murdered. being unlucky means losing classmates and teachers. being unlucky means trauma.
and i still live in fear of going places. church, college, work, etc., all because some people think that people wanting limits on military grade weaponsmeans their rights are going to be taken away.
it’s not fair that every american student has to live with the fear and trauma of mass shootings.
I was a sophomore in high school when an armed man approached my school. It was a boarding school halfway across the country from my parents, and we were told to stay where we were and, if we were in our dorms, not to open the door to anyone.
An hour later, all the students were escorted to the auditorium. All I could think about was how much I wanted to go home. All I could think about was that I couldn’t even talk to my parents on the phone or hear their voices for comfort. Everything was silent.
Months later, at the same school, there was a bomb threat in one of the dorms, and we all had to evacuate our rooms to make sure we weren’t in the “blast zone.” Luckily no one was shot, and no bomb was discovered, but each incident had one common thread. Each person was “unhinged,” yet somehow, these unhinged people always get access to a firearm.
So many people are used to lockdown drills in the US it’s another thing entirely to live in the moment of an active threat.
Bill Maher: School Attacker’s Advantage Is Not Gun Type But Time
On Friday, HBO’s Bill Maher made clear the Uvalde school attacker’s advantage was not the type of gun he used but the amount of time he had to use it.
Maher said,
“I mean, this kid was in the room for 40 minutes before anybody came in. It wouldn’t have mattered what kind of gun he had. Any kind of gun could do any amount of damage in that time.”
On May 27, 2022, a Breitbart News op-ed noted, “We must understand that the attacker’s advantage in a school shooting is not so much the type of firearm he uses but the time he has without armed resistance and the degree of surprise that results from the launch of his attack.”
When there is no armed guard present to stop the attacker and no perimeter fencing, or there is weak perimeter fencing, and there are no armed teachers, the attacker has time on his side when he gets inside the school.
Consider Maher’s words again: “I mean, this kid was in the room for 40 minutes before anybody came in.”
Breitbart News noted that the February 14, 2018, Parkland attacker had time to pause and reload five times during his rampage. The Sandy Hook Elementary School attacker had more than nine minutes without armed resistance.
Evidently, President Donald Trump’s previously impassioned desire not to see mass killing victims die in vain has given way to cold, hard political calculus. Our view.NRA view.
bigots focusing on banning gender affirming care, something proven to save kids lives, instead of banning, or at the very least heavily reforming, assault rifle regulations. I’m sick & tired of ppl claiming this is a free country. We’re free to die but not be our authentic selves.
Don’t let them fool you.. it’s not about infringing on the right to own a gun… it’s about money. It’s always about the money.
Oh and don’t forget this one…
@imagine-all-the-people Indeed. Not to mention all the airport security measures that were put in place after the September 11 terrorist attacks that now make it virtually impossible to hijack a plane.
I’ve just read that the NRA will be going ahead with their convention soon. Talk about tasteless.
