Schools now have M16s

[Suu]

So schools need M16s...because of riots?  Yeah, I'm sure that will turn out well.

Also, how does a school cop having an M16 help more against rape than a school cop with a pistol?  Does the M16 have a special "bullets which only kill rapists" firing option?

No, they don't need them at all. I said I was playing Devil's Advocate.

Even my gun nutty brother, another product of this school district, is saying it's absolutely bullshit.

[LMNO]

Look, let's just cut all the bullshit and stress and issue everyone with a grenade at around age 5 or so.

Why? Well, in confined school shooting environment I'd trust a grenade to shut shit down faster than any gun. Who's going to try and shoot a classroom full of kids when they know after the first shot they're getting 20 grenades coming their way? No-one, that's who.

It's not just school violence that stops overnight, it's everyone being a dick. Goes away, just like that. Driving like a fool in heavy traffic? Well there's a grenade through the window, you won't be doing that shit again.

It'd make everyone a damn sight more considerate of everyone else. And they to you, because you've got a grenade too.


So here I announce my presidential campaign.

One Person - One Vote - One Grenade.

I'm LMNO, and I approve this message.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Everyone's being very clever and snarky and all.  And at the end of the day, there will be Arms Lockers containing assault rifles in schools.  Which is sort of a model for American (and British, to some degree) behavior, these days.

Wingnut proposes something stupid.  All the other wingnuts agree.  Two or three rational people say, "Hey, nowl...", but the nutbags do it anyway.

Then the next big thing comes up and everyone forgets about the stupid thing, which becomes accepted wisdom, which neither side will challenge.

[hooplala]

I guess I'm one of the wing nuts in this scenario. I suppose I earned it honestly.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I guess I'm one of the wing nuts in this scenario. I suppose I earned it honestly.

This country is sick.  One of they symptoms of that illness is wanting to turn schools into National Guard Armories, to combat a problem that doesn't really exist, by making it exist.

[hooplala]

I guess I'm one of the wing nuts in this scenario. I suppose I earned it honestly.

This country is sick.  One of they symptoms of that illness is wanting to turn schools into National Guard Armories, to combat a problem that doesn't really exist, by meking it exist.

Excellent point. I have a history of going off half-cocked.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I guess I'm one of the wing nuts in this scenario. I suppose I earned it honestly.

This country is sick.  One of they symptoms of that illness is wanting to turn schools into National Guard Armories, to combat a problem that doesn't really exist, by meking it exist.

Excellent point. I have a history of going off half-cocked.

So do most people.

Most people also have an "it's a done deal, we have to move on" attitude.

So once you get something, rationally reconsidering it is an impossibility.

Evidence:  By 2004, James Carville's main complaint with NCLB is that it wasn't being funded properly.

[P3nT4gR4m]

If you can come up with something that's even a half way step to solving this problem, I'm all ears. In the meantime I'll be right here on the floor, laughing hysterically because, when I get depressed about it, it's a kinda buzz kill. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

If you can come up with something that's even a half way step to solving this problem, I'm all ears. In the meantime I'll be right here on the floor, laughing hysterically because, when I get depressed about it, it's a kinda buzz kill. 

I have no urge whatsoever to solve it.  The USA is moving towards a crisis.  I approve of this.  Let someone else save the world, I have joined the P3nt Popcorn Club.

[P3nT4gR4m]

No one is going to save the world. The world is so far beyond fucked we're actually in the aftermath of game over and 99% of the population is 100% convinced that the solution is to fuck it harder.

Human civilisation is a burning scarecrow, trying to put the flames out by dousing himself in gasoline.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

No one is going to save the world. The world is so far beyond fucked we're actually in the aftermath of game over and 99% of the population is 100% convinced that the solution is to fuck it harder.

Human civilisation is a burning scarecrow, trying to put the flames out by dousing himself in gasoline.

America is driven to jam a cattleprod up the rhino's butt and trigger it, just to get the rhino's attention.  You see it on a national level, and at every level, all the way down to this board.

And it works.  You get the rhino's attention.  The fact that you might not LIKE the attention is immaterial.  The only strange part is the American inability to connect the action with the result.

[P3nT4gR4m]

You know what really drives me insane. It's the reason I sometimes entertain notions that maybe there really is a hell and I'm in it. This shit is glaringly obvious to me. Now I'm no einstein but when something is that obvious, it doesn't take a retard to figure it out. So how come billions of people (many of whom are presumably capable of reading and writing and feeding themselves and shit, are utterly blind to such an obvious fact. And then it occurs to me they're not really people. They're some kind of automatons and the world would be better if they were all dead.

So I'm not actually certifiably insane (anymore) and I know to start murdering people in cold blood because they seem like automata is some really screwy and twisted thinking so acting on it is totally out the question. Not just morally but rationally. I'm fine with this but this niggling feeling persists. So every now and again I turn on the teevee and I watch them killing themselves and each other en masse, for the most hilariously dumb reasons that you couldn't even make up and it makes me feel a bit better.

This is my guilty secret. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

You know what really drives me insane. It's the reason I sometimes entertain notions that maybe there really is a hell and I'm in it. This shit is glaringly obvious to me. Now I'm no einstein but when something is that obvious, it doesn't take a retard to figure it out. So how come billions of people (many of whom are presumably capable of reading and writing and feeding themselves and shit, are utterly blind to such an obvious fact. And then it occurs to me they're not really people. They're some kind of automatons and the world would be better if they were all dead.

So I'm not actually certifiably insane (anymore) and I know to start murdering people in cold blood because they seem like automata is some really screwy and twisted thinking so acting on it is totally out the question. Not just morally but rationally. I'm fine with this but this niggling feeling persists. So every now and again I turn on the teevee and I watch them killing themselves and each other en masse, for the most hilariously dumb reasons that you couldn't even make up and it makes me feel a bit better.

This is my guilty secret. 

If this were hell, nothing would work right.  Not even the systems used to punish people...I don't mean governmentally, though they are included.  I mean the day-to-day grind. 

[hooplala]

Individual humans are ok, and capable of rational thought. Groups of humans are dumb, dumb, DUMB. The problem is, due to tv and the internet, we're always a group now.

[Ben Shapiro]

I APPROVE OF THIS! On account it pisses off the RWHN's of the nation, and their precious snowbirds. Plus it keeps the King of England out of the school's face.

Damn that king! We already got rid of the buggerer once, we don't need that slovenly git back! 

WE HAVE THE SCOTS ON OUR SIDE!
It's about time we funded the SCOTS to shit all over Britain.  Small price to pay for giving us One Direction.