I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange
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They need to change their name from NRA to NAWA. He probably has gun oranments on his xmas tree. I sense the press corps there is thinking WTH? This is almost unbelievable that someone is saying these things on a National Platform.
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What RR said.
Loathsome toads.
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I actually thought that his call for militias to form to protect schools was quite shocking.
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Deleted because I am mad enough to spit which is not conducive to expressing myself clearly.
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I work in a town in Michigan where the schools are closed. There was a rumour of a threat of violence in a school, so the schools wre closed. Yesterday i was told the threat was to one of the districts in our area but schools all over lower Michigan have closed because there were rumours about their schools too.
I do believe we have to be cautious but I wonder if closing schools in several districts is paranoid. And now we have whatshisfanny offering armed guards for all schools. Fear is not the best motivator for action.
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Rosemary, there was a bomb threat in my daughter's district this morning but they quickly picked up the student responsible and found no credible threat. They are open. I don't think we gain by closing down schools over rumors. Yes the rumors need to be checked but allowing fear to control all responses is not conducive to clear thinking.
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After listening to Rep Huelskamp on Morning Joe, this morning, and WL, just now, it is now apparent "they" took this last week of silence on the issue to get their stories together. They were echos of each other.
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When I was in High School we were sent home due to 2 different bomb threats. The third time we were all sent to the Junior High and spent the day on the bleachers in the gym. No more bomb threats.
There was no threat before Sandy Hook. I believe that all threats have to be taken seriously but also remember that kids have been making bomb threats to get out of school for a long time.
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Rosemary, I think the reaction to the third bomb threat was perfect. We also had some bomb threats back when I was in school but I don't remember ever being sent home. Lockers were searched and such but I think we had to stay. I don't remember feeling particularly frightened either though.
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So the NRA is saying:
"it wasn't our fault"
"we're being unfairly maligned."
In other words they are the real victims. And here the rest of us thought the 28 dead and their families were. Aren't we idiotic.
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And because these people died, the rightiousness of the NRA cause is proven. Therefore, they can now set policy and tell the government how to enforce laws. And make themselves richer in the process, as more guns will be needed.
As far as I can tell, this is what the NRA had to say today:
"America, Drop Dead. It's All About Us."
In less than 24 hours, we have seen such a horrendous display of moral bankruptcy from the right. It's painful to watch.
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Ladies~I'm from the Right! I'm a christian conservative, and you already know I disagree with the NRA, especially their stand on assault guns. That's just plain ignorance on their part.
As far as John Boehner is concerned, I'd personally like to go smack him up side the head and put his shoes on the right feet.
I feel like its more ego than common sense driving these men.
Yes, I'm even from Boehner's home state of Ohio, but I don't agree with everything my party represents.
But, oh well! They all get to go to their million dollar mansions to enjoy Christmas while the rest of us worry about how we're going to make it financially in the coming year.
Ha! I'm getting an $11 cost of living raise on my SSDI. I should be having a party to celebrate. Huh?
Blue~I can't wait to see pics of your puppy.
Blessings
Paula -
Assholes!
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Thank you Paula. I can't wait to pick him up!
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Soteria, you moocher, you! Don't you go spending that 11 bucks on luxuries now, ya hear?
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Soteria, $11 a month? And that's with the current Cost of Living Calculation. Just wait for next year's version.
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I don't want to live in the world that the NRA thinks is out there.
Paula, thank you for your comments.
Blue-picutures!
Mary
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When I was teaching there were a few bomb threats,which were handled quietly with complete non experts (like me) going through the halls and looking for bombs whatever it is that they look like. My favourite was the time a kid sat at a school computer in another school and sent a threat about all the schools in the county. He was still sitting at that computer when the IT people identified the computer and the kid. He got in trouble.
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I do like the idea of having students go to an alternate location to continue school if there is a bomb threat. I've never really understood the logic of suspending a student and only having him go home. For a lot of students that get expelled, that is the goal. Our school(elementary) has an in-school susupension option. The student stays at school and does his/her school work in the conference room in the office. No recess.
Mary
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Un-FREAKING- believable! So now, guns don't kill people: video games, movies, the media, society and people who hat the NRA kill people. I couldn't watch it, but I read the transcript. UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE!!! So, by that logic, the cure for alcoholism is more alcohol. To eliminate drunk driving deaths, everyone should drive drunk. To lose weight, eat more food. To end bank robbery, rob more banks? To stop the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the solution was to arm everyone. REALLY? Utterly, completely and certifiably insane. I am no longer wondering if NRA members are insane -- the ones who stay members and buy into this crap after this ARE insane. Good mental-health litmus test - are you a member of the NRA? No guns for you!
Boehner implosion ... Still laughing.
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What a country we live in, Paula. $11 for you and a holiday for members of the House of Representatives (whoever it is they represent).
And freeloaders like Romney live on!
And if anyone whines to the mods about that last statement (don't ask, folks) I shall laugh.
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Yeah, Athena ... Whiners who whine about freedom of speech but want to censor what you say. Same old, same old ...
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With this insane stance the NRA has taken, they have effectively taken themselves out of the conversation, imo. Just to explore the insanity for a moment, do they plan on paying for every guard at every school (which classroom, all?), shopping mall (which store?), every college dorm, every movie theatre? As if this were even practical. (For the record, there was a cop assigned to Columbine.) I think Wayne LaPierre should be the first one listed in his so called Mental Health database. And I don't mean to insult those with mental health issues when I say this.
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Transcript for those who missed Wayne LaPierre's travesty of a speech:
http://home.nra.org/pdf/Transcript_PDF.pdf
It does look like they cleaned up the places where he called for guns in every classroom and turned it into guns in every school. I noticed he was going back and forth on that and wondered which way would end up in the transcript.
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We watch the same video games, movies, etc. etc. Why don't we have the same problems then?
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Kam, it almost sounded as though Wayne LaPierre was appointing himself viceroy of something. Blue suit, US flag behind him, blue curtains. Someone fancies himself Napoleon. Definitely deranged.
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RR - at one point he said he wants the mentally ill to have guns. I think he was adapting his remarks everytime a CodePinker got in the picture. Well, that's one excuse for the creep.
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Blue, I think the NRA falls on its own sword (excuse me, semi-automatic) with that, as with so much else. They complain about the portrayal of guns in a virtual world, and yet call for MORE guns in the real world.
Dumboes.
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Athena - yes yes! It felt like he was a politician dictating US policy (which is bad enough). He's a lobbyist! It was surreal.
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The hubris!
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