re: #155 Blind Frog Belly White

Bulletproof backpacks, clear backpacks, no backpacks at all, etc. are all band aids on a problem that starts with the single most important point that right wingers and gun nuts want everyone to ignore:

But for the easy availability of guns, especially guns like AR-15s, mass shootings and school shootings would be as rare in the US as they are everywhere else in the world. Not even active war zones have the kind of school shootings and mass shootings we have in the US. Only in the US do we accept this kind of violence.

Of course, the right wingers and gun nuts point to Chicago as proof of the failure of something (blacks, gun control, etc.) as why gun control fails, except that every state that has strong gun control has a lower per capita gun death rate than the lax gun law states. Every country with strong gun control has lower per capita death rates as well.

That also translates to higher health care costs, higher criminal justice costs, etc. but the GOP and right wingers don’t care. They just think the solution is to spend on stuff that wont help keep anyone safer, and invariably the people who can afford to by crap like this are usually safer to begin with.