Ha! Try the experience of realizing that the scholarship that allows you to attend a certain school is endowed by the family of one of your classmates. So you are a XXX Scholar, but Cornelius XXX is sitting next to you in class. Awk-ward.

I always enjoyed meeting people at my school and casually wondering “hm, I wonder how they got in here”

I mean.

I'd be on board with an auto mechanic that lets me do anything while I'm waiting around other than smell a heady mix of motor oil and body odor and leaf through back copies of Bass Fishing Monthly.

If you have to learn to protect children, you are a fucking monster. I have not one maternal bone in my body, but I'd step in front of a train for a child.

Truth. This kind of stuff, along with the Magdalene laundries, is the context behind Sinead O'Connor ripping up the picture of the pope on SNL back in the 90s. Also for the anger any Irish woman who identifies even slightly as feminist feels for the Catholic church. Except for a few older Catholics, I've never met…

This woman has done a tremendous amount of activist work regarding international human rights and refugees, and you want to silence her for something she did 14 years ago? Ok.

This is what my grandparents think college looks like for art majors.

I was also getting an icky feeling from his usage of that word, and you hit the nail on the head. I think it can also be a very stigmatizing, victim-blaming word. In the context it's being used, here, there's a very condescending tone to it, as well.

"She is damaged."

He looks like the Aaron Carter that Aaron Carter always wanted to be.

I think that information regarding perpetrators of violent crimes or crimes of a sexual nature should be left in perpetuity, yes. Drug offenses or DUI's? Meh.

Agreed. It's nice to be kick ass, but this is no help to the young, elderly, sick or disabled.

Fuck you, people that thing "gun control" is the same thing as taking away all of the guns. Most people I know just want to make it hard to get a gun to weed out the crazies - not take it away altogether. So fuck you, people who get upset over nothing.

I'm in but I wouldn't even know how to start organizing. Would organizing a march in Washington even help?

Hard not to notice the difference between today's mass school shooting and mass school stabbing.

Worked pretty well in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

Let us not stop at the obvious. We should also politicize this tragedy an another reason why a country with an every-person-for-him/herself societal structure simply won't work. Let's control guns, but let's also push the agenda for affordable access to effective mental healthcare. Let's focus our resources on…

Because it's important for people to remember how they feel today when they do into the debate.