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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: For the debate
Date: 09/09/24 6:36 PM
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He threw up his hands and said there's nothing that gun control laws can do. That the only choice was to harden the schools (which is not always feasible, and horrible in it's own right to do to children).

Again, no. Let's go to what he said:

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance said. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”

"I don't like that this is a fact of life" points to the next sentence: "if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets".

Which many are, thanks to school districts ostentatiously removing security. Like here in Seattle, for example:

seattletimes.com - Police presence at seattle public schools halted indefinitely

Following a rush of similar moves across the country, the Seattle School Board voted Wednesday to suspend a partnership that stations five armed police officers at Seattle schools.

Board members unanimously approved the measure.


...all done as part of the wave of wokeness that washed over the country in 2020.

The real fact of life is that 100% gun control won't stop the problem, which is that we have psychos willing to do this in the first place.

He is resigned to a nation where the only choice is to harden schools - to turn childhood places into fortified facilities.

No, he's saying we have a lot of psychos. That's clear from the sentence structure.

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