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Dan HirschmanThese are the active shooter instructions for my son’s infant daycare room.
This sheet of paper is supposed to protect him. It won’t. But, to be fair, neither will the people who actually could.
Tina Fetner@asociologist Oh my gosh. Instructing toddlers to hide and be quiet. So bleak.
Sam Eyler-Driscoll@asociologist this is so appalling
Maddler 
@asociologist that scary and concerning and sick as hell. If you have to teach your kids how to defend themselves from shooting at school there's something profoundly wrong.
DirtRock@asociologist
just curious: who are the people who actually could?
just curious: who are the people who actually could?
Fuzzysteve@DirtRock @asociologist Well, Society at large for one. You know where doesn't have more than daily mass shootings? Everywhere else in the developed world. This is a USA problem. Everywhere else locked down access to firearms in the wake of shooting events. Willingly.
Leonardo Di Ottio@DirtRock @asociologist @fuzzysteve I love how The Onion essentially always writes the same story every time a school shooting has happened. I can’t think of more powerful responses than that.
@DirtRock legislators who could enact gun control laws, judges who could not invent absurd readings of the constitution to block them, and voters to elect the former (and or repeal the 2nd).
H-ear-me-now Singh
Jeff@asociologist this is the GQP
Tofu Golem@asociologist
In America, even the lives of our own infants do not matter as much as the profits of gun manufacturers.
America is a failed society.
JonKramer, CIS-HET@asociologist , Schools are still the safest place in the United States for kids. And as far as I know, the number one killer on school property is sports injuries. I wish we taught people that, rather than how to be scared. We are not doing our kids a service making them feel afraid 24/7.
🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩@JonKramer @asociologist Sport has a benefit to individuals and society and is generally a positive activity. Guns main purpose is to kill things. There is no equivalence.
@Naich @asociologist if I ever feel the need to equate sports and murder, I will remember your post.
JonKramer (@[email protected])
@[email protected] , Schools are still the safest place in the United States for kids. And as far as I know, the number one killer on school property is sports injuries. I wish we taught people that, rather than how to be scared. We are not doing our kids a service making them feel afraid 24/7.
@Naich @asociologist , fact: The number one killer of students on schools in the USA is sports. Fact: The safest place in the USA for a child is a school. Opinion: that we are causing kids great harm by teaching them to fear schools, and telling them to expect to be shot to death at any moment, and practicing active shooter drills.
Thank you for miscorrecting me. You are dismissed.
@JonKramer @asociologist so it's fine to equate sports and murder after all? So tell me - what positive aspects does murder have?
@Naich @asociologist I desire we become better strangers. Good people do not even ask the question "what is good about murder." Even thinking that question indicates you are a bad person. Have a nice life, away from me.
@Naich @asociologist , far anyone still not understanding, stop teaching your kids they are going to be killed if they go to school. You are commiting an insidious form of child abuse. Don't even tell them sports will kill them, but do insist they wear protective gear, because that is the #1 killer on schools, and far more injuries happen than deaths. Don't scar your kids with that either. Just teach your kids how to think, so you don't start thinking murder is OK.
@JonKramer @asociologist I don't know what happened to the other guy, but I think he was saying something about not teaching kids to fear school shootings? Yeah, we don't do that in the UK because we don't have school shootings because we have him control.
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@asociologist Without a creepy 393,347,000 (2017) estimated firearms in the hands of civilians in a country of 326,474,000+ there wouldn't be the need for scary active shooter drills at all.
P.S: Of those 393,347,000 civilians' firearms, only 1,073,743 were registered.
#GunEpidemic #GunControl #GunReduction #SaveLives #PeopleAtWar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country
Jen Kuntz 🇨🇦@asociologist Written instructions for a classroom where most people don’t know how to read yet. Brilliant. (Not brilliant, obviously).
@jenk it’s for the staff, I think, but that doesn’t make it a lot better.
@asociologist lol, yes I figured it was for staff but agree it is not making it much better.
Gabriel Pettier@asociologist I'm not a US citizen but the 2nd says "a well organized militia" iirc, even a slightly stricter application if that would solve massive problems. Pretending it means "everyone and anyone" like many do, is just wrong.
Hellchico@asociologist if you put paper on the window from inside, isn't that indication that there's someone inside?
Jcmacomber@asociologist
This is a sad commentary of what this society has degraded to.
I worry about my 2 kids in elementary school. They talk about the lockdown drills they have to do.
This is a sad commentary of what this society has degraded to.
I worry about my 2 kids in elementary school. They talk about the lockdown drills they have to do.
@asociologist Guns don't kill people, people kill people. If someone wants to kill someone, they'll always find a way. And the only people banning guns hurts is the honest citizens who want to defend themselves. criminals don't obtain guns legally. Engaging in illegal activities is, after all, what makes them criminals. What next? Ban vehicles? after all, vehicles can also be used to kill people. Or do we ban water? Water can be used by a murderer to drown people in. Or do we ban ropes? ropes can be used as a murder weapon. Or do we ban windows? after all, a murderer can shove someone out of a window. Or do we ban gravity? After all, people can be shoved down flights of stairs, and gravity aids the murderer. Or do we ban the stairs? Or do we ban freezers? after all, murder victims can be locked in walk in freezers. Or do we ban chairs? After all, a murderer can bash someone's skull in with a chair. Start banning, and it never stops. Execute the criminals, and that'll make an example for the rest to fear.
@maerlynofmiria @asociologist This is why the following countries with gun control have the same number of mass killings as the US:
1.
@Naich @asociologist True, but the gun control nuts don't take that into consideration. No matter the evidence, they ignore it.
@maerlynofmiria @asociologist I was being sarcastic... There are no countries with gun control that have mass killings on the scale of the US. It's guns that enable it.
Bowie 🏴🇨🇦@asociologist Daycare?! 💔 Jesus 🤬
Roanna Flowers (Petty Davis)
nypinta🌻@asociologist I just hate that people consider this OK.
@asociologist
active shooter..."place paper over window"???? This is dumb. They don't really think it can happen to their school, if they really imagined it happening to them, there would be more actions on EVERY level, starting with voting, ending with activism.
active shooter..."place paper over window"???? This is dumb. They don't really think it can happen to their school, if they really imagined it happening to them, there would be more actions on EVERY level, starting with voting, ending with activism.
CellyBlue@asociologist what the hell is this do.
Sir David Nielsen@asociologist @DemocracyMattersALot I always wondered exactly what good obfuscating the windows would really do. It tells the shooters someone is likely inside and there are literally no limits to how much ammo they can buy, so why isn’t the assumption that he will simply AR-15 blast a whole magazine through the door, hoping to get lucky?
These people do not need to take aim, they need to switch high capacity magazines and for their weapons not to jam.