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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Reading, Writing and Target Practice

AN EDITED VERSION OF THIS POST IS SCHEDULED TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE RECORD, A BERGEN COUNTY NEWSPAPER


("Trump Promotes Arming Teachers, but Rejects Active Shooter Drills")


It is a call to arms. Our nation, having created a monster, dealing not with the cause but the effect.

And so the President would turn our teachers into an elite fighting force, willing to throw in a bonus or two for a job well done, if not in educating our young, at least in excellent marks in target practice.
Reading, writing and bullseyes.

And thus we declare war on those AR-15ers. But not by taking away their  weapons. No, we choose to engage them in mortal combat in the classroom. Does that sound anything less than insane?

And if the gunmen should move away from the halls of our elementary and high schools and instead mow down a bus full on their way home from work or enter a library or the million other sites that we are not protecting with our finest teacher/warriors? What then, do we turn our street corners into war zones? Do we become a citizen army, our Second Amendment rights turning every restaurant, every concert hall, every nook and cranny of this nation into the next gunfight at the OK Corral? Every mother, father, grandma and grandpa into John Wayne wannabes? Every 18 year old with an itchy trigger finger, scratching?

Where does this end? If we plug one (bullet) hole there are surely others to follow.

We need to face the devastating reality of what we have permitted in the United States. We need real solutions, not shootouts, to end this scourge.

10 comments:

Sacco said...

Devastating!

Anonymous said...

It’s probably no surprise that the Presidents new budget actually reduces money for school security.

SL

Anonymous said...

Another “bullseye/on the mark” for you....sad and angry as you must have felt putting the words together.
He is beyond insane.
😢

EA

Anonymous said...

Did you see Times list of who got NRA money last year
Several over 1 million dollars including little Marco

FL

Anonymous said...

So well said. This tweeting moron and his party have subjected us to more stupidity than the country can possibly handle. --RE

Anonymous said...

Right on, as always. PB

Anonymous said...

Needs saying. Did it well. Nat

Anonymous said...

this is so good!!!!

JS

Anonymous said...

Spot on. Sharing this with others who don't get your posts or the Bergen Record. What troubled times we live in.



Helen

Anonymous said...

Great. Congrats. Seems to me that the next gunman should have the sense to kill the teach before the teacher can grab the gun, and then deal with the students. Very stupid idea to make them targets like that. And almost all of these guys expect to die in the shootout anyway. The one 10 days ago was an exception.

L