A friend always says "X isn't real, X can't hurt me, I'm on a flower field :)" But when X is "the World", the flower field becomes kinda hard to imagin without it ...

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Current events remind me of how if felt after reading "All Summer in a Day."

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Great gift for your closest CEO.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

So future CEO shooters should hit legs then heads, avoid the armoured areas

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Has bullying stopped there or is it still a thing?

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Gives me the idea to get a plate....I have a spot for a camelbak on my backpack, I could put in a plate and have yet another reason my backpack is called "wierd".

[+] Crismus@lemmy.world -26 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This is just stupid fear tactics because there really is a low amount of school shootings nationwide compared to the sheer amount of schools.

This whole fear tactic has been used to try to remove guns so that CEO's and other higher class people can stave off the coming anger against them.

The people pushing, and winning, the class war have studied the French Revolution and would want to make it impossible for regular people to fight against their private military contractors. Make people afraid and you can make them choose against their own interests.

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Putting aside everything past your first sentence, a "low amount of school shootings" is an absolutely crazy way to accept innocent children dying. I mean, it's bad enough when innocent people get shot, but these are kids.

Maybe you'd have to explain further, but as it stands your statement comes off as "It's only some kids getting their brain lead-blasted."

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Bruh, you ain't gonna win shit in a fight against dudes using drones and armored vehicles and etc etc. I get the thought though and it isn't all wrong, violence can be an effective means of changing the political landscape.

Having some common sense gun regulation isn't a bad thing, and I say that as a person who owns firearms. It shouldn't be easier to get a tool literally designed for killing than getting a driver's license to operate a motor vehicle which can be turned into a tool for killing (accidentally or otherwise).

Most guns in school shootings were obtained legally, obviously there's some problems there especially when we're the only country on the planet dealing with this.

The state has and maintains a monopoly on legal violence. That's never changing even if everyone in this country is strapped.

I'm all for responsible gun ownership but there needs to be more laws and regulations around it. School shootings are tragic and avoidable if other countries around the world are anything to go by,

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in the US

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 161 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It shouldn't be more dangerous to be a 9th grader than a CEO.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So, what I'm hearing is, we should kill 2 CEOs for every school child.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Even at 1:1 we’d be out of billionaires in a couple months.

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 131 points 1 week ago (19 children)

If they need bulletproof armor just to attend school then it is too dangerous to send them there. This is not a solution to anything.

If you got a boring office job and on the first day you were issued a bulletproof vest because they keep having "incidents", would you keep working there?

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Well, honestly I was happy with my bullet proof vest when I was in the military for 15 years. I think pigs would think the same. But I agree with you, I just think there are some exceptions lol

To be completely honest, I wasn't issued a vest. I was in the navy and had to share a vest with 3 others. I used it when I was photographing outside during anti Piracy actions. Just the idea the risk of dying from a bullet is higher at school than it is in the military is crazy. The US truly is a dystopian hell hole (but Musk and Trump are shouting "No! Not enough! We can make it even worse!", with most Americans shouting in reply "Yeah! 'Murica! Thur turker jubs!").

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 109 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Not very American.

Shouldnt only the kids with "winner" parents who can afford bulletproof backpack plates get one, so the kids of "loser" poor parents have a reduced chance of surviving?

How will these kids learn it's wrong to be and their life means less if they're poor if literally everyone in their grade has a roughly equal chance of survival in the event of our national pastime that makes us who we are happening at their school? How will the less poor kids know their life means more than their poorie classmates?

And really, shouldn't it only be legal for private academy kids to get these kinds of protective measures? Why expend resources protecting future capital livestock to this degree? Seems like a very inefficient investment.

This feels like a slippery slope to Marxist Leninist commie socialism.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

So un-American, the second amendment isn't for bullet proof vests. The best defense is offense. These kids should all have gotten guns to protect themselves, with the rich kids bullet proof vests in addition. Because everyone has the right to gunslinging, rich people have the right to survival.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

I was thinking just shoot the brownies. But letting these kids suffer in the system is far more ~~merrican~~ ~~christian~~ gop to do.

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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Why stop there?

Tanks for every student!

A school shooter will think twice upon seeing a 120 mm smoothbore Rheinmetall tank barrel ominously turn in their direction.

Edit: this will also teach students valuable lessons in crew-served weaponry and working together as a team

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[–] don@lemm.ee 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“There’s no way to prevent this”, say conservatives in the only country where this regularly happens.

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A boring dystopia.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

We are going to need to drop "boring" from that. It's getting exciting

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 1 week ago

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At graduation: "Look to your left. Now look to your right. Remember those faces, as some of them may try to kill you in the future, and some might not make it through the next few years."

Just bonkers.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

It's somewhat uncommon for a graduating class to all survive education my experience as an American. And that's despite not knowing any school shootings. It's usually suicide or reckless driving.

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