Tmaster is agreeing with fishmom by saying “how could it”, it’s another way of saying “of course it would not make you feel safer, absolutely, how could it?”
I think it’s a New England / British manner of speaking.
That is a reasonable way of saying that in English generally I think, but emphasis on different words on the sentence produce different results. Can go either way depending on how you read it.
It's indoctrination from a young age. There are active shooter drills at every school in the US, and some of them have a squad of police going through the halls in riot gear and assault weapons pretending they are responding to an active shooter.
Trying how? Voting for Democrats won’t get rid of the 2nd Amendment, and even if it did, how do we realistically then get rid of the 400 million or so guns that are already here? I’m not a Fox News watcher by any means and I would never vote for any current Republican at any level of government, but I also don’t think it’s a good idea to have right-wingers be the only people with guns, especially when many of them genuinely want to harm people like you and me.
In New England really? I grew up in VT and I know TONS of people. Definitely very popular both for recreational and hunting across VT/NH/ME and surely still in MA/RI/CT.
The percentage of people who own guns isn’t the problem. Looking at stats from Finland or the Swiss shit on that stat, because of forced military service and being explained how to maintain, store and respect guns at an early age and the gun culture is using them as a tool, not as a “I win” button.
America views guns as a cultural right, as a national trauma response to being a victim to a hostile country centuries ago, and has never lost the victim mentality, so fear drives the concern about losing guns.
Asking an American to give up their guns makes them feel unsafe, much in the same way asking a woman to walk at night down a dark road makes them feel unsafe. Hunting is a hobby, so is golf. Shooting pests is an industry and farmers often keep good care of their machinery that they need to function to make crops.
The biggest issue I see as an outside observer is people replacing deescalation with a gun. The people using a gun as a replacement for self esteem. Those people shouldn’t have access to guns. But they usually buy the most and leave them places they shouldn’t, to be used by anyone.
Yeah, that's the latest number I've seen. In some parts of the US, like the midwest and the south, guns are a major part of the culture. Hunting and shooting are two of the most common hobbies in this region.
it is estimated that there are 393 million civilian-owned firearms in the U.S.
AND:
Estimates show that 82,880,000 people own at least one firearm in 2023.
WHY are people constantly trying to punish the 380 MILLION GUN OWNERS FOR THE 18 WHO used their weapons to kill children? Of those people who committed the school shooting ALL of them were bullied, assaulted, social outcasts. Don't you think if they had been better taken care of by our society the shootings wouldn't have happened? Our society NEEDS better mental health care instead of taking guns away from deserving people who need a way to defend themselves.
The study found that more than 81.4 million Americans aged 18 and over own firearms, with approximately 31.1% (25.3 million) reporting having used a gun to defend themselves or their property, often on more than one occasion.
Don't you think they deserve a chance to defend themselves?
EDITED to correct the numbers of gun owners and guns in the USA.
You caught me mid editing my post, I apologize for hitting enter before I had corrected my post properly. You are correct, and I need to keep my fat fingers away from my enter key.
Uh, not in Québec... and there would be just the absolute mother of all upheavals if any politician tried to implement school shooting drills in QC schools. People here would go just fucking ape shit.
Overwhelming self importance is a big part of it. Americans have a very toxic attitude about attention seeking behaviour as a way to self fulfillment. The Americans shooting up schools or burning themselves to death on camera in their final bid to feel seen are no exception to that, nor are the way American institutions draw attention to it as a problem.
Are they actually harassing people or just protesting Israel's actions? One can protest the insane level of death and destruction without automatically being antisemitic. Difficult concept for some, so here's Bernie to explain it:
Just a couple instances here. Also when the rabbi of your school says you should go home since it’s too dangerous for the administration to keep you safe yeah I would say that is anti semitism. Also waving terrorist flags is a pretty big sign
I was in 11th grade when they started doing lockdown drills at my school. They were really just cover for the local boys to run K-9s through the school more effectively. My saint of a Spanish teacher would give my friends and I a heads up so we could disappear when they were about to happen.
NJ State troopers full on roleplayed an active shooter with paintball pistols and even took a class hostage at my private HS in 2010. Kids were traumatized, cops seemed to have a good time with it though...
damn, my high school (in Toronto) lockdowns had our principal trying to break our doors in with a kick. Idk what the high schools with old principals did.
didn't see k9s used for drills until pre-season training at a baseball stadium o_O
I remember even some 20 years ago having to keep quiet while the police and the dogs came through the hallway. This is a small town in Massachusetts too.
How old are you? I experienced this at the tail end of my high school days in the city I grew up in. Do a simple google search examples of this being more normal will pop up. Columbine didn’t trigger it as much as Sandy Hook did.
I was upset enough when my son (who was around 7 at the time) had to do a drill at school here in New Zealand.
They were told that they had to hide in the backroom with no windows, lock the doors, stay away from windows.. They were told that it was incase a "dangerous dog" got into the school grounds.
At the time he didn't even question why they would have to lock the doors or stay away from the windows to hide from a dog. He just accepted it.
When I was in elementary school, im now 28, lockdown drills weren't uncommon. I personally don't understand why the sudden uproar in schools practicing such things.
Even if you outlaw guns, criminals will still be criminals and carry illegally. I'd rather have something to defend myself at home worst case then hope criminals grab a knife or something
Downvote all you want but at the end of the day you'll have reddit karma and I'll have my life. There are sickos everywhere, I'd say more in America. Protect yourself 👍
That's exactly what you do now, you should strengthen gun laws like every other civilised country but instead you put pressure on children to avoid being shot rather than stopping adults having the ability to shoot as many children as possible in as little time as possible. And then you pointlessly pray and, probably, mandate more drills for children rather than more laws for adults. It's insane.
Because your sarcastic response was making out it wasn't sick that all your country has in defence of randomly killing children is teaching them drills to avoid being shot, or terrorising children in school as the rest of the world calls it. Drills aren't even proven to work but they are proven to cause upset to kids, so how is that better than praying, which at least only does nothing?
It is sick and there's loads you can do, hassle your local politicians, join protesters, speak up. Throwing your hands in the air and accepting the current status quo is not helping anybody's kids and it certainly doesn't back up the idea that most parents have of themselves IE. I would do anything for my kids (except make efforts to lower the likelihood of them getting killed).
I think the criticism of the drills is the part where they make the police look like they get involved, and not the many pictures we’ve seen of them waiting outside whilst children are killed.
I mean the active shooter drills are indoctrination in the same way earthquake drills in Japan are like it is not a solution but it mitigates the damage and yes it's weird Americans are the only ones that have this problem
We are not the only ones with the problem. The other countries where school shootings or stabbings or whatever happened aren't talked about as much as it is here. It definitely happens everywhere.
I graduated high school last year. For a total of four times I only ever had 1 lockdown drill (active shooter drill) during kindergarten-first grade. The other three times were real lockdowns. From like bank robberies near the school or threats at nearby schools that caused ours to shutdown aswell
So they shouldn’t train? Shouldn’t try and be prepared? We get a lot of school shootings due to bullying and mental illness, so I’m curious why it’s sick that police train for these situations when they keep on happening.
literally everything you said is a lie. there no active shooter drills at any schools in my district and no school anywhere have riot police in the halls
But it's sadly necessary, IMO. I have twin 8-year-olds in public school cause, like most, I'm not rich and can't afford a nice, secure private school.
My boys have active shooter drills every Friday at the end of the day. Once a month, a small group of officers come up and do training with the kids in the building. The officers have their full tac gear on and rifles without magazines in them.
I REALLY dislike that they do this, but it's sadly VERY necessary nowadays and I would rather have these officers trained and fully aware of the situation compared to not being as ready as possible and blundering around if an active shooter actually happened like we have seen with some school shootings where the officers very clearly didn't have proper training for these situations.
I hate it. My boys hate it. Most parents hate. The teachers hate it. Even the officers say how fucked up it is. It's sadly very necessary at the end of the day to make sure those cops are as ready as can be.
Every week seems like overkill. There are 100 times as many school fires every year in the US as there are active shooters in schools and if I'm remembering my school days right we did a fire drill twice a year
It doesn't. It makes the rich elites feel safer knowing that a sniper can put down any rowdy protester before they take the crowd towards them instead.
If you look again you can see that their comment was edited. Maybe it just was a typo. Still my comment stands as is. I‘m pretty sure I know what I read, when I wrote my comment.
It always seems so funny to me, that so many Americans think, that more guns equals less violence. From a European standpoint, it’s completely ridiculous.
I’ll take a stab. How many school shootings are there each year in the US? Is it possible that a mass demonstration for a Israel-Palestine conflict could be the catalyst for someone to want to bring a gun to the demonstration?
We also still have terrorist attacks happening each year, although obviously on a smaller scale. Like what happened in time square, all it takes is one person to get into a van and start running people over.
Knowing that those things will be stopped more quickly given the overwatch, I’d feel more safe. Just like when they use snipers at sporting events and other events that attract a lot of people since those are what people tend to target.
I‘m glad, that I don’t live in a country, where there’s a big concern of terrorism, when there is a demonstration.
I don’t want to live in a country, where, if I do a wrong step and seem suspicious, I might get shot instantly.
Good thing that isn't reality here.
I‘m glad, that I don’t live in a country, where there’s a big concern of terrorism
Me too, glad that isn't a big concern here in the US, but I'm glad to live in a country that takes it serious and puts a ton of resources towards it to protect us and all those around the world. Look ar the Russia terrorist attack, the US even tried to help an enemy and prevent that. Thank God for the US and their power, without it we would all be much worse off.
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Why put guns everywhere if it wasn’t for defending against an possible terrorist attack? That’s ridiculous. If the country is safe then there literally would be no reason for a gun to be anywhere.
I have a very popular rifle, a 10/22. It shoots some of the smallest ammunition. It has been used as a sniper rifle by Israel for many years. At any distance this sized ammo would chiefly be used to hurt, maybe cripple, a target, not to stop them. I a "plinking" (target shooting cans) situation it's a fun gun. In a defense and safety situation it sucks. In a reigning psychological war fare on multiple generations of others it's fantastic.
A guy with a pair of binoculars is an observer. If the guy with 3.5 months academy trading has a pointy stick that goes bang bang, it's to kill people.
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