Archy Bunker, if you think past your cigar fogged idea, you will see that is not the solution for dozens of reasons.
Interesting opinion, considering that it has been working here in Colorado in a number of school districts for years and years since Columbine. :shrug:
Doesn't get much Press because a) the Press isn't interested in what works, they want to sell ads and fuel dissent, and b) the Districts who did it, did it long ago and relatively quietly and sanely before the recent brouhaha of the mob mentality vs. asking professionals and experts how to do things.
As far as ammo goes, I've found some WWB and Blazer Brass for our classes and range time plinking. It's out there. Not great prices but not awful. You do have to hunt for it.
What I can't find is a magazine, not even a magical special no-death non-evil California 10-round version, that comes complete with unicorns and rainbows, for Karen's gun for reload practice and not having to waste range time reloading. Sigh.
I was being polite and keeping my FB and Twitter conversation relatively civil up until my own State's representatives not only penned some of the stupid-ass legislation but co-sponsored it.
There never was any intention to have a reasonable discussion or ask any experts what should he done, even though all the anti-gun folks keep saying that's what they're all about. If they were, they'd be asking their Representatives to stop and think.
So now that there's proposed legislation that has zero basis in fact or science already written and proceeding, I'm no longer being nice about it. These proposed laws are pure Asshattery intended to attack law abiding folk. That's all they are.
Watch how fast this all happens -- and keep it in mind for how fast aviation will be changed. If the system works and the Constitution is upheld, I'll be quite surprised.
When you can't trust your neighbors with firearms, because you don't even know them (name ten neighbors, forst and last names... go...) or anything about guns at all (majority of the commenters online and in the Press), you're probably scared all the time, and hope someone will make you feel better.
Personally, I refuse to live that way.
I watched three drivers TRY to run people clearing fallen ski gear out of a busy intersection an hour ago. I'm not kidding. Run the vehicle up to their ankles and honk at them. Two women, one male. The male ran over some of their gear on purpose. If a cop had seen it, they'd have cited them.
THIS is what's wrong with our society today. Bunch of selfish *******s so self-important they couldn't put their Hazards on, make the intersection safe for their neighbors and fellow Citizens, and WAIT one measly green light cycle for them to pick up their gear. "I'm in a hurry. F--- you and your ski gear all over my road."
I can see why people who live like that and think like that wouldn't trust their neighbors with any weapon.
(Hoplophobia I believe it's called.)
They know they personally have zero self-control, and even less brain cells active just sitting in an automobile, let alone with a weapon in their hands. Don't even ask them about their consumer debt load. Might show how mentally deficient they really are if that were public knowledge...
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