Thursday, March 21, 2019

Two Ways to Handle the Gun Violence Issue

After last week's deadly mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, the country's government has banned semi-automatic and automatic rifles, and a gun buyback program will be instituted. This is what happens in a nation which has a government which is not owned by the arms manufacturers' lobby. Here, in the United States, there is a different approach to mass shootings- shoot teachers in the back with pellet guns as part of an active shooter drill. While this does nothing to promote school safety, it sure as hell shows those uppity teachers what could happen if they demonstrate for higher wages.

2 comments:

Ali Redford said...

>While this does nothing to promote school safety, it sure as hell shows those uppity teachers what could happen if they demonstrate for higher wages.<

}}shudder{{ I don't like it, but that's the first thing I thought when I read about it, too.

mikey said...

C'mon, you know the truth as well as I do.

Let's see, what might be the key difference between NZ and the US when it comes to firearms legislation?

Do you suppose our obsolete and desperately stupid constitutional guarantee might have something to do with it? We being one of only three or four nations in the world to have such a dangerous bedrock constitutional provision, and New Zealand (along with Australia, which also produced huge changes in firearms ownership after ONE horrific mass shooting) does not have such an obstacle to imposing the will of the people...