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hunter

(38,310 posts)

10. So long as we are imagining things...

Reply to firecop70 (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 04:50 PM

Dec 2012

... how about we imagine a public health care system that catches lost souls like Adam Lanza before they start shooting? How about we imagine a nation where guns are scarce and people who have gun fetishes are regarded with deep suspicion and even disgust, the same sort of disgust we reserve for pedophiles and others who crap on the innocence of childhood?

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Armed School guards - impractical, expensive, ineffective, illogical [View all] MANative Dec 2012 OP

Yes but... firecop70 Dec 2012 #1

And this is not Boston in 1787 nor California in 1845... MANative Dec 2012 #3

So What is the situation "as it is" as you see it? dballance Dec 2012 #9

So long as we are imagining things... hunter Dec 2012 #10

Sounds like a wonderful idea! Michigan Alum Dec 2012 #13

Stopped? How?? Zoeisright Dec 2012 #12

You should include dangerous. These wont be fully trained regular police IMO. rhett o rick Dec 2012 #2

"impractical, expensive, ineffective, illogical"? Turbineguy Dec 2012 #4

Can't argue with that observation! n/t MANative Dec 2012 #5

I could have added Turbineguy Dec 2012 #14

What could go wrong? RomneyLies Dec 2012 #6

And as many of us have already noted: MANative Dec 2012 #8

I think you're overreacting. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #7

I'm overreacting? I live five fucking miles from Newtown. Tell my community that. MANative Dec 2012 #11

Obama's kids school has something like 10 armed guards. Why shouldn't my kids have the same? jal777 Dec 2012 #15

Go away. n/t MANative Dec 2012 #16