Student walkouts
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floridays
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Chicago Blackhawks?
thats where you and i disagree.
why should a citizen be force to leave a country because of an unelected dictator?
At the March for Our Lives, Kids Say Their Right to Feel Safe Trumps Your Right to Own a Gun
Missing from these conversations was any awareness of a very basic, indisputable fact: Gun violence has declined precipitously over the past 25 years, and most Americans are much safer today than they were a generation ago.
Schools are no exception. They are "increasingly free of mass shootings," according to researchers James Alan Fox and Emma Fridel. As New York Magazine's Eric Levitz put it:
American children do not "risk their lives" when they show up to school each morning — or at least, not nearly as much as they do whenever they ride in a car, swim in a pool, or put food in their mouths (an American's lifetime odds of dying in a mass shooting committed in any location is 1 in 11,125; of dying in a car accident is 1 and 491; of drowning is 1 in 1,133; and of choking on food is 1 in 3,461). 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.
Obviously, it's understandable for the survivors of the horrific events in Parkland to be feeling unsafe, given what happened to them. But mass shootings are not the norm, and kids don't need to be terrified of going to school.
One teenager, a female student who attends a private boarding school in Pennsylvania, cornered me after I had finished interviewing her friends. She was carrying a sign that said, "The FBI has blood on their hands," and was eager to explain it.
"I'm not for taking away guns," she told me. "I think that really this isn't possible in the U.S. But multiple sources, and the FBI itself, confirmed that there were signs that were definitely missed, in Parkland and in other cases around the country. I think that's a matter of them doing their jobs and protecting the country like they're supposed to."
Missing from these conversations was any awareness of a very basic, indisputable fact: Gun violence has declined precipitously over the past 25 years, and most Americans are much safer today than they were a generation ago.
Schools are no exception. They are "increasingly free of mass shootings," according to researchers James Alan Fox and Emma Fridel. As New York Magazine's Eric Levitz put it:
American children do not "risk their lives" when they show up to school each morning — or at least, not nearly as much as they do whenever they ride in a car, swim in a pool, or put food in their mouths (an American's lifetime odds of dying in a mass shooting committed in any location is 1 in 11,125; of dying in a car accident is 1 and 491; of drowning is 1 in 1,133; and of choking on food is 1 in 3,461). 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.
Obviously, it's understandable for the survivors of the horrific events in Parkland to be feeling unsafe, given what happened to them. But mass shootings are not the norm, and kids don't need to be terrified of going to school.
One teenager, a female student who attends a private boarding school in Pennsylvania, cornered me after I had finished interviewing her friends. She was carrying a sign that said, "The FBI has blood on their hands," and was eager to explain it.
"I'm not for taking away guns," she told me. "I think that really this isn't possible in the U.S. But multiple sources, and the FBI itself, confirmed that there were signs that were definitely missed, in Parkland and in other cases around the country. I think that's a matter of them doing their jobs and protecting the country like they're supposed to."
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
This was the real shame about Parkland.
floridays
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You are correct Sir, but is so much easier to blame an inanimate object, disregarding previously enacted policies, and cowards on the ground. I understand the larger picture, along with millions of other citizens.
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
You are being too kind.
The people clamoring for gun bans are hijacking the event to further their personal agenda to ban guns.
floridays
Well-Known Member
I was and I thank you for noting my lack of candor and adding what I didn't deliver. Thank You!
sailfish
Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
We're talking about jobs, not nations. Take down the dictator.
i think jobs and nations have things in common like what i said.
and yea workers should take down their dictators.
rod
Retired 23 years
floridays
Well-Known Member
And look for another job? Hey rickyb how are ya?
rod
Retired 23 years
floridays
Well-Known Member
Get back in bed.
hey america has
ty senior care so you'd better save your money for the seniors home
rod
Retired 23 years
hey america has
Finally---I agree with you on something
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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The city will pick it up and send a bill to the organizers. Happens all the time.
As opposed to Canada where they put you on a piece of ice and push you out to sea.hey america has
