Maybe you’re rich, I don’t know. If so, you may be rich enough to have agency. I am not, and neither are any kids who attend public schools.

My 7 year old told me it’s crazy that “normal people” (aka not police or military) have access to guns. She just didn’t. My kid wins the logic and empathy game.

That’s exactly the problem. As long as weapons are easily available that can “mow down a bunch of kids”, there is an issue.

Oh, I’m sorry, is your child mentally ill, evil, or hell bent on killing people? I’m sorry if that’s the case and I offended you.

I hope the school administration walks out

So we shouldn’t try to reduce gun violence by making it harder to obtain a gun? Having a mandatory wait time or adding a class requirement doesn’t change your right, does it? What is the harm in trying?

It is like buying milk actually! I went to a gun show in a state not unlike Indiana, showed them my OUT OF STATE driver’s license, gave them an American Express, and voila, I walked out with a glock .40. I was 20 years old. I have never shot a handgun before then. The whole entire process took less than 5 minutes.…

Each school should organize for everyone to walk out together.

I’m so sick and tired of this argument. Because some people will find a way to get a weapon and hurt people, we shouldn’t do anything to make that harder for them? It’s all or nothing?

Your 9-year-old deserves better a better influence than you.

Hey fuck face, Indiana is a 30 minute drive to Chicago, with lax gun laws. People go there, buy guns, and bring them to chicago. This is not hard to understand.

Direct action gets the attention of the entire community, which is what gets politicians to care. And more than that, it tells the kids who are traumatized and need protection right now that 1) they have agency and 2) people care about them. Actions like this promote community and prevent PTSD.

I hope school staff everywhere walks out too, their lives are in danger as well.

Although I greatly admire the actions of this young man, he’s about to learn the hard life lesson that the GOP members of Congress don’t give a single fuck about him or any other student in America and will gladly see their lives violently sacrificed at the altar of their NRA masters.

I mean, Catholic lady up there spent her morning at Mass praying and look where it got her.

Yeah, that makes no sense at all.

What phase of doing absolutely nothing are we in? “Thoughts and prayers”? “Don’t make it political”? “The bodies aren’t even cold yet”? “More laws won’t change anything, criminals will still break the law”? I just want to know so I can adjust my expectations accordingly.

“I SEE YOU’RE MAKING LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY FOUR. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU’D LIKE TO SAY TO THE ‘HATERS’ WHO DOWNGRADED YOU FROM A CATEGORY FIVE YESTERDAAAAAAIIIIIEEEEEeeeeeeee”

One of the reasons why I left the profession (I was in print, not TV, for what it’s worth, so at least my shame wasn’t caught on camera) was because I just came to loathe the inhumane ways in which my bosses expected me to treat people. Here’s a prime example: We got a report into the office late one night about a…

Too bad that’s not grounds to put her kids with a better parent.