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Ruby the Liberal

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3. Most excellent.

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 08:20 PM

Jan 2013

So now things like mass shootings are being brought into the mainstream as an everyday, to be expected, routine, the norm not the exception event?

USA! USA! USA!

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Parents Uneasy About School Shooting Drill [View all] proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 OP

What twisted and fearful minds children are going to grow up with ... what kind of an example RKP5637 Jan 2013 #1

Why should gun shootings in schools be normalized nobodyspecial Jan 2013 #2

It's for the same reason customerserviceguy Jan 2013 #5

Umm, not equivalent at all nobodyspecial Jan 2013 #12

Why should fire drills? bigwillq Jan 2013 #14

Do they set real fires? nobodyspecial Jan 2013 #16

And in the shooting drills customerserviceguy Jan 2013 #17

Most excellent. Ruby the Liberal Jan 2013 #3

A lockdown drill is fine. My district does it. Nye Bevan Jan 2013 #4

That's the crazy part. proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 #6

This. Robb Jan 2013 #7

all I can say is.... marions ghost Jan 2013 #8

I am Berserker Jan 2013 #9

Blanks can kill. frogmarch Jan 2013 #10

Makes about as much sense as setting actual fires WolverineDG Jan 2013 #11

They steal kids from our lines during our fire drills proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 #13

Actually that makes sense. ManiacJoe Jan 2013 #15