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bitterross

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4. Can we reserve our outrage for something that deserves it?

Mon Aug 28, 2017, 02:27 PM

Aug 2017

This hardly deserves our ire. Parents signed permission slips to allow their kids to go on a field trip. Sure, it involved guns. That's hardly a reason to get upset. It IS Georgia, the South - DUH! I'm from the South. Guns exist everywhere there. They are not a big deal.

This sort of over-the-top reaction to a nothing story is what the right uses to legitimize their criticism of us and call us the nanny state.

The parents approved the trip for their kids. Get over it and stay out of their parenting.

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School under fire for taking 6-year-olds to gun range [View all] sarisataka Aug 2017 OP

And what did they use as targets? lpbk2713 Aug 2017 #1

That's another story- sarisataka Aug 2017 #8

Two students from the school went on the trip oberliner Aug 2017 #2

Yah...did you read the story at your link? MineralMan Aug 2017 #3

I hadn't read all of it sarisataka Aug 2017 #6

Can we reserve our outrage for something that deserves it? bitterross Aug 2017 #4

There are a certain amount sarisataka Aug 2017 #7

What a creative sentiment LanternWaste Aug 2017 #10

If I decipher you correctly sarisataka Aug 2017 #11

No doubt, at one time or another everyone pretends to know what deserves our concern... LanternWaste Aug 2017 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author JonLP24 Aug 2017 #5