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Posts Made By: Mel Maki

May 25, 2022 10:49 PM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Mel Maki

A school should be able to lock the doors when people are shooting guns.

May 25, 2022 11:20 PM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Mel Maki

If it is true the guy was wearing body armor the police needed a head shot or a rifle.

May 26, 2022 01:55 AM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Well now we know it sure wasn't an armed guard, a school resource officer, who confronted the gunman at the school but failed to engage him according to media reports: 
"The 18-year-old gunman stormed past an armed guard at a Texas school, carrying a rifle he had purchased days before the attack."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/25/us/shooting-robb-elementary-uvalde
So, the point is your proposed solution along with the rest of the cons of having an armed guard didn't work!
An armed guard failed so we should get rid of armed guards.

May 26, 2022 02:17 AM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Well now we know it sure wasn't an armed guard, a school resource officer, who confronted the gunman at the school but failed to engage him according to media reports: 
"The 18-year-old gunman stormed past an armed guard at a Texas school, carrying a rifle he had purchased days before the attack."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/25/us/shooting-robb-elementary-uvalde
So, the point is your proposed solution along with the rest of the cons of having an armed guard didn't work!
"...having an armed guard didn't work."
So you think it is a bad idea?

May 26, 2022 03:23 AM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Mel Maki

Nobody wants maniacs to have guns.

May 26, 2022 04:21 AM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Nobody is stopping them. Even at age 18, they walk in to gun store and walk out with an AR15..
The man that sold him the rifle also does not want maniacs to have guns.

May 26, 2022 04:45 AM Forum: Politics

May 26, 2022 04:55 AM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I have to wonder if he "certainly" wants to have background checks to find out. Republicans in congress don't... 
He had a background check.

May 26, 2022 06:24 AM Forum: Politics

19 kids and 2 teachers dead at Texas elementary school

Posted By Mel Maki

Keep electing Dems and maybe you will get the gun world you want. Elect too many and you might have to turn in the guns you told us about.

May 26, 2022 07:40 AM Forum: Politics

What Changed in this nation?

Posted By Mel Maki

Maybe I was more responsible than some but born in 51 in rural WA I owned a .22 rifle in 5th grade. I could be in the woods all day with nobody but my rifle and never did anything irresponsible. All of my friend's families had rifles in their front rooms and we never touched them without the parent's consent because they told us not to. In rural areas some high school kids did have gun racks with rifles in their trucks but in my area it was rare by the late sixties.
Is it as simple as kids are less likely to obey parents compounded by the parents are less likely to have a lot of strict rules?
Are modern kids in their own world (much different than parents) sooner now, so parents have less influence?
Millions of kids are on legal and illegal drugs now. Do the largest cities now give young people a more difficult start? Do young people now have less character? Something happened.
Our problem is larger than guns.