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Teachers Fake Gunman Attack
Anti_Climax writes "Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to these teachers after the charges brought against students in recent months."
We need to submit this to the Darwin awards and then wait for the children to grow up and sue the fuck out of these teachers.
There is just a line where stupidity goes from a mistake to outright malice. This crossed the line, turned round and started to pee on it while singing "it's raining men" and tap dancing.
I like muppets.
two words: mob rule. 60 little gremlins armed with sharp pencils or pens descend on the gunman. The gunman would not have a chance.
Simple: when anyone of legal age who wants one has one. If you don't want one or don't want to carry one, then nobody will force you to carry one.
Except that cannot happen.
You cannot name a major single city or country where a person cannot fairly easily obtain a gun and ammunition. Not one! You can _talk_ about theory until you're blue in the face, but Britain, Canada, Japan, Russia (every country) still have shootings. Get my drift?
And why, if the populace is unarmed, should police have guns? IIRC most of Britain's police don't carry firearms.
Can police be trusted with guns? Statistics show police are less accurate than civilians in shootouts and harm more bystanders than civilians.
And police can often be very liberal in their use of firearms, since almost no jury will convict a police officer of shooting a civilian.
Most importantly, police cannot protect you from criminals. They are usually not present when crimes are committed.
Furthermore, the courts have held that police are not legally liable if they do not protect you from crime and that the police and government are immune from lawsuits stemming from police failure to interdict crime.
The only ones whom you can trust to protect you are yourself and your family and friends.
I would say common sense very much does exist, and the GP was indeed saying that Americans seem particularly prone to lack of it. I have never visited the US, but I haven't managed to avoid coming a little bit to the same conclusion, in particular after talking to a few exchange student friends who spent a school year there. Americans have a strange tendency, for all their claimed ability to cut through the bs and simplify issues, a weird habit of needing to regulate things that make the rest of us go "duh". Another example is a tendency to irrational paranoia... it's probably because there is a deep-seated insecurity in the very culture about other people who are "out to get you". Witness the red/terrorist scares.
My first guess would be that it has something to do with common sense being at least partially a social norm (excluding things like "it is not smart to jump off a tall building"). Americans are supposedly disapproving of them, and therefore would just simply grant each other the freedom to be an idiot. This, on the other hand, isn't quite credible, as Americans are surprisingly socially conformant, in particular when it comes to the God/country/family stuff.
Europeans are often derided in the US for creating a nanny state that encourages people not to think for themselves, but it is my impression that we are MUCH better at a lot of the unwritten rules... and this is partly why we are better at "community". You just intrinsically know what is appropriate and what is not, as you are more attuned to what the other people around you are about. You also can anticipate their behaviour better, which means you don't have to "think for yourself" and come into sometimes ludicrous, and wrong, conclusions...
I want to play Free Market with a drowning Libertarian.
One can only hope that these teachers get fired and have all their teaching credentials stipped from them... They commited an act of terrorism and should be charged accordingly. Seeing comments talking about "poor judgment" just makes it sound like they're going to give them a slap on the wrist and let them go.
Ah, irony. Like silvery and goldy, but sturdier!
Actually I was mostly kidding about the whole "down south" thing. You know the whole stereotype -- the gangly southern sherrif, the mysterious backwoods guys, the doomed foreigner (or yankee!) who has NO IDEA what he's about to get into...
It was a funny thought. Envision Dieter the German Film School Nihilist walking smack-dab into a back-woods Cajun town, complaining to the guy that runs the hotel about the sheets and window treatments... One wonders what terrible fate would await him...
Poor Dieter!
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The OP IS American, as far as I can tell. But you have, with your inability to either THINK or allow for the fact that possibly, just fractionally possibly, Americans (or anyone else for that matter), might be capable of viewing their own country critically.
>> Riiight. Stereotypes of Blacks and gays are a crime against humanity, but Southerns are fair game. Got it.
Good! Because you ARE fair game. First of all, you guys are the worst abusers of "stereotypes of blacks and gays" on the planet. You trade racist jokes like us Yankees trade complaints about the weather. Your southern states have horrendous human rights records, you have a long history of institutionalized racism, you voted George W. Bush in TWICE because you were afraid "them homos were gonna get hitched", you're COMPLETELY gun-crazy, your laws are backward and religiously fanatical (like that poor guy who got ten years in prison in Georgia for going down on his wife?) and in general, you've demonstrated a remarkable lack of intelligence and culture.
Why SHOULDN'T we make fun of you? You've earned it over and over again. Vote democratic next time, then we'll talk.
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