Article from Reason by Robby Soave.
“Guns are for the police and the government,” a 13-year-old girl confidently assured me.
She was one of the hundreds of thousands of people taking part in the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. She was flanked by two friends—another 13-year-old, and an 11-year-old—who were equally confident that violence in schools was the problem, and banning guns was the answer.
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Marissa, a teenage girl from Michigan, told me she felt unsafe in school, and thought more security would help. Teenager after teenager testified that their fears of death were all-consuming, ever-present, and more justified than ever before.
Missing from these conversations was any awareness of a very basic, indisputable fact: Gun violence has declined precipitously over the past 25 years, and most Americans are much safer today than they were a generation ago.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
I would add to Benjamin Franklin that they will LOSE BOTH.
Liberty is like a roll of salami, if you have a roll of salami and someone comes up and cuts a slice off, you get mad but it’s not worth fighting over. Then he cuts another slice off and you’re mad again, but it’s not worth fighting over. This continues until all you have left is the string and THAT’S NOT WORTH FIGHTING OVER EITHER!
They have little reason to be afraid since school shootings are extremely rare. The only reason they sense danger is leftists hammer the issue every minute of every hour of every day. A few armed individuals in each school would end this nonsense totally and permanently. The democrats ought to be ashamed of frightening the children.