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Now it appears (if the NRA prevails), parents will have yet another criteria when choosing a school/community.
If guns are to be a regular facet of school-life in the future, look for a wider schism than we now experience. How long before we see advertising for "Firearm-protected schools v gun-free schools"? Perhaps the gun-folks will opt out of gun-free schools and start their own "new" schools (like the Christian storefront Jesus schoolfolk have done).
So many of these "shooters" seem to have a death-wish for themselves , so perhaps they would start to choose the gun-schools so they could fulfill their shoot-out fantasy in a more spectacular way..
"Gun-maps" might also start to play into homeowner's insurance policies and even life insurance policies, and real estate prices too. Want to live gun-less in a community of arsenal-builders? Perhaps that bucolic wonderland of a community you are interested in buying a home in, just may be too dangerous for kid-sleepovers.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)we can do the same with gun nuts
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)fingers crossed..
or perhaps when one of the big shots at the NRA gets a phone call that says.. "Bring a photo of your son/.daughter/grandchild, so we can identify their body".
Skittles
(153,169 posts)we can let them know what they really are - paranoid assholes
onehandle
(51,122 posts)The tipping point has been reached.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)I want gun nuts treated the same; I am sick of their ignorance and cowardice
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)BUT YOU CANNOT HAVE THEM EVERYWHERE - SMOKING IS NO LONGER MAINSTREAM AND NEITHER WILL GUN NUTTERY - it is NOT MAINSTREAM to be fearful and delusional!!!
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)those who don't get it.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Yes we know they are "legal", but so is soap.. & we sell both here, BUT we cannot allow you to strip down in aisle 4 & lather up...and we can sell you the tobacco, but you cannot "use" it here either...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,639 posts)I hope we don't get to "Guns or No Guns."
LeftInTX
(25,380 posts)It was huge. I think it was in 1965. It was a big deal. I was only 9 years old. Neither of my parents smoked, but they talked about alot. It was also all over the news.
I also remember learning about the "dangers of guns". I can't remember if I saw it on TV or learned about it in school or both. But there was an education effort to get people to think twice before purchasing a gun. Wish those days would return.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)Ashtrays everywhere, from the dentist waiting room, to elevators, department stores, and fast food joints.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)time to put a halt to their fucking nonsense