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1 BLUE POINT 09  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:15:21pm

How fucking crazy are we going to get? The patients are running the asylum and the politicians are afraid of them. Vote.

2 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 2:31:00pm

Freedom. Liberty. /

3 BLUE POINT 09  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 2:33:03pm

re: #2 Bulworth

Freedom. Liberty. /

Freedom, Liberty and Fucking Cabbage. Back to the caves.

4 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 2:38:25pm

In other words the people in charge have thrown up their hands in futility and said, “This is the best we can do to protect our children.”

5 Political Atheist  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 2:44:27pm

re: #4 Romantic Heretic

These people are nuts. Someone sees a chance to make money on fear. Ripping off parents. How is it that decades of child and teen deaths in poor neighborhoods with active violent gangs never got this particular kind of attention? Somehow Compton kids matter less?

6 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 3:07:51pm

re: #5 Political Atheist

These people are nuts. Someone sees a chance to make money on fear. Ripping off parents. How is it that decades of child and teen deaths in poor neighborhoods with active violent gangs never got this particular kind of attention? Somehow Compton kids matter less?

Follow the money. That’s what politics is all about. If you can’t buy a politician, your kids don’t count.

7 EiMitch  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 3:28:30pm

Why not mandate lightning-proof clothes for everyone? You’re more likely to be struck by lightning than be killed at school. Its just that the later gets far more attention in the media, so our monkey brains scream “that could happen to me.”

8 BLUE POINT 09  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:49:27pm

Yeah. Tell Susie at age 6 that there is nothing to worry about as you strap her body armor on and give her instructions on how to “take cover” in a crowded room full of screaming 6 year old children in case the “alarms” go off.
“This has only been a drill. If it were not a drill you would have been instructed on which exit to run screaming to.”

Ah! School days! When you rode the armored carrier to your blast proof school and donned your Kevlar cap and jacket. Then you had a “Gunman” drill where everyone hid behind bulletproof white boards and under fortified tables while the teachers broke out the flash grenades and M-16’s. Have you considered buying gold?

9 SidewaysQuark  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:15:53pm

I seriously thought this was a parody article at first.

10 cat-tikvah  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:27:21pm

And even more, just how does this protect your head and brain from rapid fire multiple bullets?

11 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:57:53pm

re: #6 wrenchwench

Follow the money. That’s what politics is all about. If you can’t buy a politician, your kids don’t count.

Or, more precisely, if you can’t buy a bullet-proof bookbag, and send your kid to a school with money to spend on special whiteboards, your kids don’t count.

This has almost nothing to do with reality. It’s an even less practical concept than arming the teachers. But some people will spend the money on this because Newtown scared them so badly. It’s an absurd gimmick meant to protect against a very low-probability but very high-horror situation.

12 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:59:53pm

What folly.


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