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oregonjen

(3,316 posts)
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:41 AM Jun 2014

Reynolds High School teacher's post on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/seth.needler/posts/10152305971767933?fref=nf


Today I endured the nightmare I had feared for the past fourteen years, since I started teaching public school – a school shooting. I guess in some ways I’m lucky, or dodged a bullet, since I was never near the shooter, got home safely and didn’t even know the student who was shot and killed.

It was absolutely terrifying to sit in my classroom, on the floor, in the dark, with a group of 40 or so students crammed into the corner against the wall, silently reflecting that all four walls of the room are made of some kind of flexible bulletin-board material (great for hanging posters, but I’m sure any bullet that exists could go through easily), and thinking of my wife and child at home. The lockdown lasted for close to an hour, before we were evacuated by police in riot gear. All of us had to walk out with our hands up and get patted down, twice. All backpacks and bags were confiscated. I spent the rest of the day feeling alternately sad, worried, scared and confused, wanting to know what was really happening.

But, now that I’ve had time to process my thoughts and feelings, I want to be clear about what my reaction to today is going to be.

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Reynolds High School teacher's post on Facebook (Original Post) oregonjen Jun 2014 OP
THANK YOU for this post Bigmack Jun 2014 #1
" Isn’t it time to put the NRA in its place? If not now, when?" etherealtruth Jun 2014 #2
Excellent read BrotherIvan Jun 2014 #3
 

Bigmack

(8,020 posts)
1. THANK YOU for this post
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:55 AM
Jun 2014

I'm a retired teacher and I TOTALLY understand what this teacher has written-posted. I reposted it on my Facebook page and I urge others to do the same. Ms Bigmack

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)
2. " Isn’t it time to put the NRA in its place? If not now, when?"
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:01 PM
Jun 2014
I don’t blame this on a mentally unhinged youth, although that might be what it was, or on lax security, or even on society’s general decline. This was a case, like all the other recent school shootings, of gun violence due to lax gun regulation, and the proliferation of military assault weapons in the hands of everyday citizens.

I’m sick and tired of hearing gun enthusiasts claim that any kind of gun regulation is an attack on the second amendment, or that the solution to gun violence is more guns. I completely fail to understand how one organization, which is the lobbying arm of one industry, can control every politician in Congress to the extent of preventing any action at all on gun control, even after polls show that 90% of Americans are in favor of it.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
3. Excellent read
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 09:16 PM
Jun 2014

I did not know that Israel has the bullet control I've been advocating:

"In Israel, people outside the army who want to own a gun have to take a training, and if they pass, are allowed to buy a once-only, lifetime supply of 50 bullets."


This is exactly what needs to happen for all non-hunting rifles. If guns are for self defense, then one only needs enough bullets to defend oneself. Target shooting can be with non-lethal rounds, such as the ones made of plastic. Apparently they are less expensive as well.

We have such a strange interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. If we're tired of innocent victims, we better get on the regulated part very quickly. The NRA has so much power because gundamentalists will not vote for anyone with low NRA ratings. The majority who want regulations needs to communicate that we will vote against any who will not make them happen.
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