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US school requires students to carry clear backpacks after shooting last month

he superintendent of Broward County Public schools, Robert W. Runcie, sent a letter to the families of Stoneman Douglas High students to alert them to the new rule which is similar to security measures at airports and professional sports venues.

He said any student without a clear backpack would be provided one at no cost after spring break, which takes place next week.

Students will also be required to wear identification badges at all times while in school while staff members have badges as well.

Mr Runcie told families the district was considering using metal-detecting wands at school entrances and installing permanent metal detectors.

Other steps designed to better protect students including evaluating “code red” active-shooter protocols and drills and upgrading surveillance camera systems.
 
Its Ok folks, they've got the problem sorted! You really couldn't make this shit up.

Students get stones to ward off shooters

This idea actually sounds slightly less insane than armed teachers - I think a classroom of teenagers armed with medium-sized rocks would probably fare better against a shooter with an assault rifle than a 55-year-old teacher who's not sure which desk drawer the handgun is in. And it's ammunition kids have experience with, when I was 8 years old I could probably have taken somebody's eye out with a piece of gravel from 20 yards away.

But this is all probably helping to create another fucked-up generation - in the '80s, there were nuclear drills which scared the shit out of people, but they were because of some recognised dispute between countries, and there was a peace movement people could be a part of. Now there's active shooter drills, etc., and it's not because of the threat of war, it's because somebody might turn up at any time with a big gun to kill you for no particular reason.
 
Pretty big MarchForOurLives demo at the horrible new US embassy in London earlier. I have a feeling it’s going to be much larger in the US than people are expecting today.

The Guardian's live coverage should be decent - they've got the student staff of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school newspaper as special correspondents. They let the students guest edit their US site yesterday too, which is pretty cool imo.

March for Our Lives: hundreds of thousands demand end to gun violence – live
 
The Guardian's live coverage should be decent - they've got the student staff of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school newspaper as special correspondents. They let the students guest edit their US site yesterday too, which is pretty cool imo.

March for Our Lives: hundreds of thousands demand end to gun violence – live
My prediction is that marches in major cities will go fairly smoothly, but as soon as the sun goes down, in at least one smaller city away from the coast with a militarised police force and a reasonably sized black population, a bunch of kids are going to be teargassed.
 
Looks quite a turnout in DC, and elsewhere. Good stuff.

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Amazing what awful shite people come out with:

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What kind of sociopath do you have to be to even think of something like this? Even if you disagree, you have to remember that this a a minor child, who survived a horrific crime.
 
Amazing what awful shite people come out with:

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What kind of sociopath do you have to be to even think of something like this? Even if you disagree, you have to remember that this a a minor child, who survived a horrific crime.


Seen similar message, but there is a man in uniform training his gun on a mother and her children scrunched down in a ditch. I figured that the man in uniform was natzi and the family was Jewish. "this is what happens when they take our guns".

My fb trumpiziod posts the image with several different slogans.
 
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Amazing what awful shite people come out with:

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What kind of sociopath do you have to be to even think of something like this? Even if you disagree, you have to remember that this a a minor child, who survived a horrific crime.
Here's a rather good talk by an annoyed German talking about this myth of "Nazi gun control":

 
Wasn't Germany awash with guns in the period leading up to the Nazis taking power? Surely it was one of the factors that led to their swift rise? There were militias out marauding, backed by the Nazis.
 
Wasn't Germany awash with guns in the period leading up to the Nazis taking power? Surely it was one of the factors that led to their swift rise? There were militias out marauding, backed by the Nazis.
yeh there were militias of all hues, not just fascist. there were rather more guns floating about in the years immediately after the first world war, what with the freikorps and that. i've not seen anywhere cite availability of firearms as a cause for the nazis' rise, but go on and find some evidence.
 
yeh there were militias of all hues, not just fascist. there were rather more guns floating about in the years immediately after the first world war, what with the freikorps and that. i've not seen anywhere cite availability of firearms as a cause for the nazis' rise, but go on and find some evidence.
I have only read one book about the Nazis' rise to power but it mentions the post war availability of arms and the prevalence of militias. (Richard Evans)
 
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