This Moment in Freaking U.S. History...

These days it's easier to become a cop than a nurse or teacher.

They have to test clean for drugs ( Walmart carries a drug test deceiving kit).
They can't have a felony on their record.
They train for six weeks.
Now you're a cop.

Nah dawn. When it all goes to shit New Zealand is the place to be. I’m packed and ready

I don't think any of those keyboard warriors on the Politics board have the faintest conception of what a Civil War would really be like.

Are survivalists the same as doomsday preppers, Dawn? I saw some of them interviewed (they lived in Smoky Mountain, Tennessee) in a TV program a few months ago.

I'm on the opposite end of the state.
I looked at property on that end (the east) but couldn't afford it.
It was so much prettier than the west end
(where I am).
And Dollywood is in the smokies!

I love this tweet


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no, you've got it right, although i don't know yet what the texas shooter(s?) were using. there was also explosives on the school grounds.

I've just written a post on there asking what drives young people in in America to do this kind of thing. If.as the gun lobby insist, it has nothing to do with easy access to guns, then what causes it? It doesn't happen in other countries.

Penny~ I was reading your posts in the political "I hate libs" forum. I don't post there.

I think the US does overmedicate active boys (and sometimes girls).

I'm not saying this is why they shoot each other.

I grew up in a place where parents beat the crap out of boys who were hyperactive. They didn't call it ADD or ADHD. They didn't get a prescription.

Sometimes teachers recognized these boys were highly gifted, and they saw that they needed challenges. Their misbehavior wasn't considered "asshole boys".

I remember some of them, when we had mediocre teachers, were punished. Sometimes we would bully them. (Especially when the entire class was punished).

I can't imagine these boys (1970s/80s) would want to kill everyone at school.
20 years later, when my kid was in school- I could see these medicated children, and bullied children, and I can look back and see it could have escalated.

Statistics are kind of meaningless because we don't know how many people share meds, steal meds (I remember parents stealing *their own kids* Ritalin!) or obtain meds without a prescription.

You would be hard pressed to watch public tv here for 30 minutes without seeing at least 3 pharmaceutical commercials, 3 sodas and 3 fast food commercials. (I think I will test out my guess later and let you know).

When I was a kid they pushed cereal and toys.
Now they push meds and fatty fake additives and soda (which have all proven to be addictive).

I think that's the problem, along with social media and bullying, and crazy rhetoric from parents on meds or fast food or sodas or using social media and bullying. (You should see American parents at their kids sports games).

Just think about some of the posts you read in the political forum, there are real people behind those words and that board is one of many social media posting places. Many of those people have kids and those kids hear that rhetoric (assuming the parent is paying attention to them and not on the internet).

Add all of my ramblings together- we're going to hell in a hand basket and we are never going back to the simpler times. This is the new normal.

There's other way to kill people besides guns- but guns are the easiest to find.

I read a story about some girls luring a kid into the woods and stabbing the kid multiple times (20 something I think).
And there's bombs, poison, strangulation etc.

When I had a kid in my house, our guns were locked in a safe that required a key and a combination to open it.
One of my kids friends put a bomb in a mailbox (the kind that sits on the corner for all to deposit mail).
That kid was the type that would have taken one of our guns if they were not locked up.

After that incident I forbade my kid to continue the friendship.

firearms are not locked away in the country, though

I'm pretty sure there are no laws about keeping guns locked up. It's done by choice.

I don't think there are laws in all the states about it being legally required to report a stolen gun. (14 states have it ?- don't quote me on that).


Here's how I bought 3 guns~

1. A gun show - I bought a hand gun. I was not allowed to pay cash. Paper trail mandatory. They did a background check that took about half an hour.
(Side note: people were selling guns in the parking lot for cash with no questions asked)

2. Through an ad in the paper - I bought a rifle. Went to his house, paid cash. He checked my ID and wrote the info down. He made me sign a form indicating I was taking possession of the gun.

3. On my road - I traded my chainsaw for a shotgun with my neighbor.

I shot the handgun a couple of times to see what it was like.

I got these guns because I was peer pressured into it. I also bought a deep freezer, A generator, solar panels, the list of stupid things I bought goes on and on. More peer pressure LOL

I got rid of these guns after an incident. An incident that made me have stronger feelings about God and being a Christian.

The bottom line is I would rather be killed than to kill. The reality is that if someone were to break into my house they would use the gun to kill me not the other way around.