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School Shootings – the Easy but Unconstitutional Fix

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The shootings this morning in Texas were a gut-wrenching tragedy&period; We see this a lot now&comma; disturbed people who are already suicidal and want to make a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;statement” of some kind&period; They see this in the media&comma; and they want the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;glory” of leaving this world while making a name for themselves&comma; social media style&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Fixing this is easy&period; It is just not Constitutional&period; &nbsp&semi;And I may lose some readers over this thought&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">No&comma; it is not gun control&period; Someone can do close to the same damage with a knife or a car&comma; it would just change the fashion&comma; not the attitude&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">I’m a little out of my head this morning&comma; so let’s embrace some of that crazy&period; If my writing friend Larry can advocate bumping off Putin&comma; let me take it a step further&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">This is strictly fantasy&comma; I would not and would never do this or advocate this&comma; certainly not by police&comma; nor do I recommend it to BLM or the Klan or the Hells Angels or other underground gangs who might have the capability and the sympathy for dead children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">But what if one of these shooters became even more famous because they &&num;8220&semi;escaped&&num;8221&semi; and were kidnapped by a nice vigilante group&comma; and shown the error of their ways&quest;&nbsp&semi; Perhaps a good combination of lessons from the Wiki page on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;methods” or something from the movie <em>Law Abiding Citizen<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">For a long time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Make a video&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Publish the video&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">I can guarantee you that after a couple of times&comma; school shootings would stop&period; These shooters may be unstable&comma; they may be suicidal&comma; but once they realize that their end will be more like this than it will be like Bonnie and Clyde&comma; they will find something else to do&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Extraordinary measures to protect something extraordinarily valuable &&num;8211&semi; our children&period; Clearly&comma; our government has no clue how to handle this&comma; our education system is in shambles&comma; students don’t know right from wrong&comma; being popular is more important than life itself&period; The Trump solution to arm teachers would work&comma; but the liberals who control the schools won&&num;8217&semi;t do it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Wow&excl; Glad I got that off my chest&period; I don’t believe in vigilantism&comma; I don’t believe in cruel and unusual punishment&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">My heart goes out to the parents of the kids killed today&comma; I hope they get some peace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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