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Like I said, nothing's perfect but arming teachers and administrators would reduce the risk significantly.
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The Beatlemaniacs of The Villages meet every Friday 10:00am at the O'Dell Recreation Center. "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, April 22, 1800. |
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A change like this?
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I absolutely, totally, wholly and unequivocally...disagree. |
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The insanity defense is nothing more....NOTHING MORE....than a legal tactic that triggers certain attitudes within the "letter of the law". A killer like the current school shooter won't know he is "insane" until he meets a defending attorney. The attorney's task is to create doubt using the letter of the law. Using the letter of the law means using it, abusing it or hiding behind it....which ever gets the verdict being sought for their client. Does not mean or imply or guarantee truth...just create doubt. With doubt comes no conviction!!!! |
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Wow. We agree again, CNM.
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Oct 5, 2016 School shooting threats now a felony You might want to look up the law before making comments. |
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Putting aside the fact that the law you linked is a state law, not federal, here is something you should read...in regards to what actions can actually be taken in such instances. Could a tip to the FBI have stopped the Florida shooting? | PBS NewsHour But hey, I'm all for a federal law that allows locking up...those who verbally advocate violence toward others. If that were in effect, we would currently have a totally different national scenario. |
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But back to the thread. I am all for trying something new if it will work. I think people don't want to get rid of guns simply because they are afraid, and rightfully so. I am 78. I don't recall hearing about anyone who I knew in the area I lived growing up being murdered. There was domestic violence and drunks. Some people would say if they took booze away that would stop. I think they did, prohibition happened before I was born and people still beat their wives. Now people hit someone in their car and leave them by the side of the road. Maybe if we caught them and took away their drivers license that would stop. And then there is drugs. Every day people are dying from Heroin and since we can't seem to stop that by passing legislation we are trying to get everyone educated about Narcan and are working to have it everywhere it is needed. Some support drugs being made legal. Maybe that would work.
What happened to that cold feeling we all had when we knew in our gut something was wrong?
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Going to school should not turn into a death sentence, but this is America | Miami Herald
This is a good article by Carl Hiaasen. I have great respect for the FBI. They monitor Facebook and many other places for terrorists both domestic and foreign. They do miss things as they are humans. |
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In any case, the more I read, the more I still feel OPEN and PUBLIC hearings broadcast at prime time on SCHOOL SHOOTINGS and what to do is in order. This must be aired in public..and have those who are simply pro NRA on the record as well as those who might be anti. A serious discussion to see and hear our folks in action. This hearing should include discussions on guns and mental health issues. Many think all of this is simply and it is not, but our children deserve a serious discussion on all of it. I am appalled that the sheer power that the NRA seems to have, but not anti gun at all. I feel that the problem is a combination of both potential gun regulations and the due process of identifying and processing mental health concerns. Despite the poster who simply attacks the FBI they have dealt with thousands of calls, etc and can speak to the obstacles that they have in handling such calls. It should NOT be a hearing on the 2nd amendment in anyway but a specific hearing to determine the best action to protect our children while they are at school. While you and I agree a lot on this, I will say this.....I do not know what could have been done had this been referred to the Miami FBI office as the link you gave addressed the first warning signal that was almost impossible to trace and work on, but had the Miam office been alerted....who knows. I also think that local law enforcement who KNEW of this kid for quite some time should respond, not on the defensive, but as for the good of knowing what can and cannot be done and be whom. Police and FBI do an outstanding job but are human and restricted by law. |
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FBI are true heroes.....I say that from reading and personal experience albeit many years ago |
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When our kids were at home and invited to spend the night at a new friends home, I would call the parents and ask them if they kept guns in their house and if they did, I wouldn't let kids spend the night.
I am not a gun owner or an NRA advocate, and I don't look at either as loathsome. I am a realist. If half the country does not want to give up guns or have them further controlled, all the rhetoric in the world, the best debaters, the finest arguments are not going to change their minds. So I say; What else do we have to protect children who are going to go and enter school buildings nine months out of every year until they are eighteen?
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It is better to laugh than to cry. Last edited by graciegirl; 02-17-2018 at 04:04 PM. |
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Cruz committed a Felony under Florida state law, so federal law not relevant, many students in many states have been arrested and prosecuted for making school shooting threats. FBI and LEOs blew it and could have stopped a massacre. |
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