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Old 24-02-2018, 14:36   #171
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Re: Florida Shooting: 17 Students Shot dead in another Mass Shooting in the U.S

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And who has a hold over the NRA? The manufacturers? And maybe...
FBI ‘investigating whether Russian money went to NRA’s campaign to help elect Donald Trump’

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I certainly think that's more sensible than arming teachers but would you not just relocate the problem to McDonalds, cinemas etc and not prevent it?
Of course that’s what would happen. To be frank, if arming teachers had a deterrent effect that, too, would result in disaffected loners targeting their classmates in McDonalds or the cinema instead.

The solution is to spend the next generation progressively rolling back gun ownership in the USA. The problem with enacting such a solution is that the debate has been very effectively framed by the likes of the NRA as an issue of personal freedom and the very definition of what it means to be American. The protesters need to re-take control of the national identity before they can effectively influence the gun ownership policies that flow from it.
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