[Dennis Lukes]

Rejoice for those around you who are granted admission into the Kingdom of Heaven. Mourn them do not, miss them do not. Oh, your kid went to Hell instead? Well, that's your fault for being a bad parent and a heathen. If your child had been Saved when they got shot, they'd be in a much better place right now, it would be so glorious! But, no, they're being tortured by Satan's legions as we speak. Don't go trying to blame guns, lobbyists, toxic masculinity, white supremacy, or the Republican Party for your own poor parenting decisions. Now let's have a moment of silence, and then another and how about another. No need to talk about this or anything. Better repent now or you'll burn alongside your stupid kid. ̶T̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ prayers.

[Cranky Old Man]

Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole

What will it take to end mass shootings in America?

As mentioned before, more guns! We need to arm the teachers and the children so they can defend themselves. No child should have to go to school without a loaded gun.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Cranky Old Man

As mentioned before, more guns! We need to arm the teachers and the children so they can defend themselves. No child should have to go to school without a loaded gun.

One has to admit Texas is on the right track in its efforts to protect students from mass gunmen. Texas has armed guards in schools.

In this case, there were armed guards but they stayed outside the building for an hour. The entered only when more police arrived with better equipment, a shield the officers could hold in front of them while they entered the building. It took an hour for the better equipment to arrive.

The solution here is obvious. First, have children armed in all rooms at all times. Second, have on site in every school armed guards plus shields that can be carried in front of the defending officers. These reforms are needed immediately.

It's all about the odds present at any moment. Apparently, when the shooting began it was four security officers against one shooter. The police calculated this was too risky and waited until the odds were better. Armed kids in the classrooms would have ended it immediately.

[handmaiden]

Now that we have had a few days to calm down from all this (and before the next incident riles everyone up again), maybe this is the time to ask alternative questions.

Do we really want to end mass shootings in America? What if the reason that they keep happening is that God wants them to keep happening? God is, after all, All Powerful. After every one of these news events some of our most faithful politicians call for and offer up their thoughts and prayers. And yet, the shootings continue. If Our Lord and Savior chooses to give us a hard "No" in response to so many fervent Christian prayers maybe we need to change our prayers.

I, for one, do not wish to stand in opposition to Jesus. If there is something that He keeps denying us no matter how many times we ask, then maybe it is time to stop asking. Instead, we need to repent from our selfish prayers and ask Jesus what He wants.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by handmaiden

Now that we have had a few days to calm down from all this (and before the next incident riles everyone up again), maybe this is the time to ask alternative questions.

Thank you for your cool head, Sister. The hysteria around this event has been unseemly.

If Our Lord and Savior chooses to give us a hard "No" in response to so many fervent Christian prayers maybe we need to change our prayers.

Yes, some different ideas are called for. If we look rationally then we can see the problem is socially awkward 18 year old incels (nerds) with unlimited access to weaponry. We need to track them and be ready to deploy overly muscled meat heads in uniforms (jocks) with unlimited access to weaponry. There also needs to be a educational component in parallel: ner ner, yo momma, sux 2 be u, etc.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

We may be over-thinking this. After some prayer on the matter, I feel in my innermost soul that our dear Mayor summed up the solution here:

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

We need only home schooling.

My children are home-schooled and as a result none of them has ever been shot - or stabbed, for that matter - at school. This is because all the boys know that they and their brothers (and, I suppose, their sister - not that Hannah would ever seriously consider attacking anyone) would be in big trouble if their father learned of such substandard behavior.

People who send their children for schooling outside the home reap what they sow.

[Bezukhov]

"All Guns to be Armed with Guns"

Title of an article I saw years ago. Believe it was the Rochdale Herald. Imagine if every gun had its own gun. If the gun feels it's going to be used in an inappropriate manner it could put a stop to it.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Bezukhov

"All Guns to be Armed with Guns"
Title of an article I saw years ago. Believe it was the Rochdale Herald. Imagine if every gun had its own gun. If the gun feels it's going to be used in an inappropriate manner it could put a stop to it.

It all comes down to practical ideas. Home schooled children are in a home that has loaded weapons. Crazy persons will not go in there. A school where every kindergartener has a loaded weapon will handle an invader just fine.

Our problem is liberals. They do not want to solve this even when a solution in right before our eyes.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

Our problem is liberals. They do not want to solve this even when a solution in right before our eyes.

We can convince them by highlighting the numerous examples of good guys with guns taking down bad guys spraying bullets into crowded movie theaters and whatnot. So there's a little, what's the word, collateral damage, if you choose to focus on the negative. The point is, stuff happens. You can't ban stuff!?

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Camera activated machine guns in the ceilings of all schools and public buildings is the solution.

1.Camera sees lunatic atheist, locks onto him, and liquidates him.

2. Three students to be trained and designated as "body removers".

3. Our children's education can continue as normal.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Ezekiel Bathfire

Camera activated machine guns in the ceilings of all schools and public buildings is the solution.

1.Camera sees lunatic atheist, locks onto him, and liquidates him.

2. Three students to be trained and designated as "body removers".

3. Our children's education can continue as normal.

Brother Bathfire, that seems a good start for taking this problem seriously. Another idea is Indiana Jones-style booby traps, poison arrows, rotating blades, set at about 4ft height. Kids are less than 4ft so they survive but woe betide you are an 18 year old 6ft tall shooter. Instant death.

[Dennis Lukes]

We've talked a lot here about how we should be arming students as well as teachers in order to cut down on school shootings, and I love this idea. So much creativity on display here, if only this was what Congressional debate looked like, this country would be in much better shape. I'd like to add that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, while the only thing that stops a good guy from getting a gun is a Democrat. We're not hearing about all the positive examples of firearm use in school because the good students aren't allowed to bring them in. The only armed students are, thanks to the Democrats, the bad eggs, the ne'er-do-wells, the juvenile delinquents, the punks, who are mostly raised by liberal-leaning single mothers. If you only give paintbrushes to a bunch of kids with palsy, of course you're going to get shit for results.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

They always blame the arms industry when something like this happens. What about the gravestone makers, the funeral directors, the coffin manufacturers quietly making a fortune while our heads are turned the other way. Nobody ever accuses them of profiteering off of excess gun deaths.

[handmaiden]

I read something somewhere* that there have been a number of mass gun deaths in the days since the Texas school shooting. Of course, the definition of "mass" when it comes to shootings is really being stretched recently.

It's all starting to worry me. Liberals are making a lot of noise about gun control which is just a euphemism for gun seizure. How am supposed to feel safe if they take away legally owned guns? Criminals will always get guns and commit crimes with them because that is what criminals do. But legal gun owners will be the ones paying for all this anti-gun hysteria. Just because a few people misuse their guns and get carried away is no reason to punish everybody.




* Unless a given source of reading material comes thoughtfully segmented by book, chapter and verse, I never remember where I read it.

[WWJDnow]

Originally Posted by Phil Ander

Call me a limp wristed libtard if you want, but I think 18 year olds should be limited to just one AR 15 purchase in the first year and only 300 rounds of ammunition per week.

I also support background checks


Q1. Have you ever shot anyone, excluding home intruders, and people who you believe to pose a threat?
A1. No

I can't believe it. Brother Phil has gone Communist. The first thing the Commies do is take our guns away. That'a why Joe Biden wants to take our guns. But a True Christian™ saying these evil words just breaks my heart. JESUS WANTS US TO HAVE GUNS.

If we'd arm the schoolchildren, then shooters would not shoot up schools.

[Elmer G. White]

The question is not "what will it take to end mass shootings" but "should we intervene"? It is by now crystal clear that Jesus could end the mass shootings if He wanted to. Yet he does not intervene, and if he is content to abstain, perhaps so should we.

Matthew 6:26-27
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

A problematic verse. On one hand, we should just trust Him and not worry about these shootings. They somehow belong to God's master plan, probably the one the involves getting Hell filled with infidels. On the other, is there any place for thoughts in this matter? We have witnessed countless times how thoughts and prayers are the mightiest weapon against all kinds of nastiness, and I've repeatedly used it in similar circumstances and, lo, the shootings have always ceased for a wile. But should we? I dare suggest that the time of thoughts and prayers is over, only prayer remains but I'd use it on more profitable and important subjects, such as fighting homosexual gay sodomy.


Yours in Christ,

Elmer

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Elmer G. White

I dare suggest that the time of thoughts and prayers is over, only prayer remains but I'd use it on more profitable and important subjects, such as fighting homosexual gay sodomy.

Amen! Brother White I think you raise a crucial point in this essential debate. Democrats use mass shootings as a political tool to force everyone to think about their vote. Ever notice that there's a mass shooting every time there's an election? Hm?

It's a cynical plot to distract from the sodomistic sex going on right now probably involving someone you know accepting an erect male phallus into their anal cavity, pushing against it until the pubic bone is jammed against the coccyx, pounding away until a brusque withdrawal and spray of ejaculate over this person's back and nape of the neck, and a discolored slime oozing down the inner thighs which tremble in agony.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Originally Posted by Elmer G. White

The question is not "what will it take to end mass shootings" but "should we intervene"? It is by now crystal clear that Jesus could end the mass shootings if He wanted to. Yet he does not intervene, and if he is content to abstain, perhaps so should we.

Indeed, brother! Who would dare say Jesus is wrong in exercising His Sovereignty in such a way that makes a person with a weak constitution uncomfortable? Who accuses the Holy Ghost of forgetting to instruct Christians in the manufacture and operation of Safe Spaces when the Holy Bible was written? Who has hubris so great as to claim he knows better than the LORD what a Divine Plan should look like?

Amos said it most clearly when he reminded the Jews to stop complaining about things they don't like for no doubt this is the Plan of the Good Lord:

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Amos 3:6

[Johny Joe Hold]

You have to think these shootings will end soon. Gun sales in the U.S. are almost at a record high. This means shooters will be receiving return fire and will retreat.

Guns in the U.S. – 2021 Second-Highest Year for Gun Sales Since 2000 - SafeHome.org

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

You have to think these shootings will end soon. Gun sales in the U.S. are almost at a record high. This means shooters will be receiving return fire and will retreat.

That is pure logic, Mr. Mayor. What prevents gun massacres in this country is fear of being out-gunned by superior weaponry. If we were not so heavily armed, it would be like handing our country over to the crazies.