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[Blue Owl]

1. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

2. And teachers signed up to build the future

through our children, not destroy the future.

Every teacher I know would quit before being forced to arm themselves. Good luck finding more teachers when there already is a shortage.

[Alpeduez21]

3. aaaaaand the teachers that will be found are gun toting

hot heads.

That's what I want leading my children.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I used to imagine parent/teacher conferences

with armed teachers and parents. When precious little Timmy has behavior problems or isn't performing up to standards and his parents get pissed off, what happens then?

[Rebl2]

5. This is

their way to get rid of public schools. Make it so horrible for teachers they will quit. Republicans have been doing this for years now.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Their goal is to destroy everything good

and replace it with anything that gives them more $$$ and power. They destroy public education then complain that public education isn't up to par. No wonder most teachers are Dems.

[Rebl2]

7. EXACTLY!

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Yep. Wonder how Betsy DeVoss is doing on one of her three yachts? Fucking scum.

[BigmanPigman]

9. That ass was invited to speak at my school district in

2017 but they received so many complaints that they had to uninvite them. I personally dropped off a "thank you" note at the school board offices.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. nice touch. Always good to acknowledge intelligent choices!

[SunSeeker]

10. His testimony was grueling. (Trigger warning, graphic description.)

Guerrero — who said he's lived in Uvalde his whole life and treated children in the community before the massacre — said that he "raced" to Uvalde Memorial Hospital on the day of the mass shooting. "I'll never forget what I saw that day," he said. As part of his testimony, he recounted a horrifying and disturbing scene:

"I had heard from some of the nurses that there were two dead children who had been moved to the surgical area of the hospital." He went on to say, "what I did find was something no prayer will ever relieve: Two children, whose bodies had been so pulverized by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart, that the only clue as to their identities was blood-spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them. Clinging for life and finding none."

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/gun-violence-mass-shooting-hearing-06-08-22/index.html

No civilian needs a gun that decapitates a human body.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. horrific. Total assault weapons ban like outlawing "machine guns" last century. Way past time.

[SunSeeker]

15. Yes, assault weapons are machine guns, for all intents and purposes. nt

[Aussie105]

11. No civilian needs a gun . . .

Truncated that last sentence for you.

Saw a media report a while back . . .

Man sees two strangers breaking into house next door.
Man gets his shotgun.
Man goes out.
Robbers have exited the house with pilfered goods, running away down the footpath.
Man fires.
Both robbers go down.
Both robbers dead.
Man upset, didn't intend to kill.

Seems some people don't know guns do more than just make scary noises . . .

[SunSeeker]

12. I agree.