On 6/7/2017 9:35 PM, dick balaska wrote:
> Am 2017-06-06 17:47, also sprach Stephen:
>
>>
>> It is the only way to do it. You've got more chance of winning the
>> lottery...
>>
>>
>
> After Sandy Hook, we spent billions turning our schools into
> mini-prisons.  I pointed out that that was a total waste of money.

Not  total waste of money. It shows to the world/community that the 
authorities are doing something, however ineffectual. Throwing money at 
the wrong problem. Personally I believe the real problem is social 
inequality, at least it is in Britain. People get pissed off with their 
lives and crack or here in the UK get radicalised. But changing that 
seems to be too hard to admit. At least for politicians who want to get 
re-elected.
When we had a school massacre in Dunblane. Our politicians tightened up 
our gun laws. But I understand that would be political suicide in the 
states. So it won't be done unless the unthinkable happens.


> Concerned mom: "It keeps my snowflake safe."
> Me: "Ok, so I'm a bad guy with a gun who is locked out of the school.
> I'll just sit on that hill across the street and pick off a couple of
> packed busloads of kids."
>

Mr. Popularity at the PTA. ;)

> And I followed it up with my goto line.
> "You are so concerned about something that is not going to happen, yet
> you ignore the 300 people that died on Connecticut's roads last year
> while you happily text and drive."
>

Don't get me started on that one. I would jail anyone caught doing it. 
(Well I like to think I would. Threatening to take away their licences 
would probable be better.)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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