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lostnfound

(16,162 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 01:26 PM Mar 2018

Massacre Free Schools a new measure of quality of life?

Ah, the euphemisms, and the divide-and-conquer solutions.

What kind of world do we want?

In the race to the bottom, we’ve all anticipated falling wages, limited availability of health care, people sleeping in their cars because they can’t afford rent. Generally a life of precarious indentured servitude.

But should indices of worldwide quality of life measurements be revised to include a metric of “Massacre-Free Schools”?

Or would that be setting the bar too high?

If we put metal detectors and armed guards at entry points to schools, maybe we can shift the massacres out of the freshman building and the first grade classrooms, and into the nightclubs and movie theatres? Is that our best goal? Is there an irony that the other side talks about “hardening” schools?

Setting the bar at a Massacre Free Nation appears a bridge too far, for America.

What kind of world do we want?

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Massacre Free Schools a new measure of quality of life? (Original Post) lostnfound Mar 2018 OP
You have your priorities all screwed up! tazkcmo Mar 2018 #1
metal detectors and single point of entry lapfog_1 Mar 2018 #2
Agreed...it also enriches a few security companies... lostnfound Mar 2018 #4
In Third World America 'I graduated High School' means you didnt get killed doing it. Volaris Mar 2018 #3

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)
1. You have your priorities all screwed up!
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 01:30 PM
Mar 2018

A massacre of children and teachers is a small price to pay to enable a small minority of our population to spoon with their military grade weaponry. Get with the program.



Heavy sarcasm.


lapfog_1

(29,192 posts)
2. metal detectors and single point of entry
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 01:35 PM
Mar 2018

only does two things...

It turns schools into prisons thus shortening the school to prison pipeline.

and

It provides a target rich environment for future school shooters similar to the concert venue in Las Vegas

lostnfound

(16,162 posts)
4. Agreed...it also enriches a few security companies...
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:55 PM
Mar 2018

And trains the kids to be more compliant or controllable...?

Volaris

(10,266 posts)
3. In Third World America 'I graduated High School' means you didnt get killed doing it.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 01:36 PM
Mar 2018

Welcome to what ALEC wants, I suppose.

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