A year after she was shot by her 6-year-old student in a Virginia classroom, former teacher Abby Zwerner said she still worries about the other children who saw it happen, and wonders how they’re faring.
Wounded by a bullet that struck her hand and chest and punctured a lung, Zwerner rushed the other first-graders into the hallway before she collapsed in the elementary school’s office.
“I hope that they are enjoying school, enjoying their second-grade year,” Zwerner, 26, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper. “I hope that they’re still kind to their classmates, kind to teachers. I hope that they still have happiness, and that their happiness wasn’t completely stripped away.”
LiberalGunNut™ here! Not too many ideas out there for laws that actually make a difference and will stand up to 2A challenges, but I got one.
Drop the fucking hammer on anyone who allows a non-authorized person access to their weapon(s). No idea how this actually looks as a law, but I’m sure you get my drift.
I’ve heard arguments pro and con regarding safe storage. For example; I’m not one to legislatively tax poor people for exercising a right. But lockboxes are plenty cheap enough. If you want to step up from a cheap lock-box, $80 and an hour of work, and you got a Harbor Freight wall safe installed. (They’re great BTW!)
And such a law doesn’t need to specify containment! “Anyone gets hold of your gun, concrete and steel box for you.” Bet people would pay fucking attention!
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Reducing the disparity in wealth has a direct impact on the amount of people who want to lash out at society by killing indiscriminately.
Give people reasons to live so they don’t make up reasons to kill.
Unfortunately, liberals and conservatives love to unite on greed because they’re both in on it.
My dude I don’t think the six year old that shot her was economically anxious
My point still stands.
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The parents were though
Is this true?
What data are you using to back this claim? Most school shooters seem to come from middle class to rather affluent families. How do you guys manage to pivot every thing to class warfare?
I was walking down the street and I stubbed my toe: “Ow how can the proletariat suffer the injustice of tripping over uneven sidewalks while the rich continue to exploit us!”
This is like a meme level comment at this point.
Edit: to everyone downvoting: Prove me wrong. Give me the data. Show me that income or class had a considerable impact on these active school shooters.
The closer we get to the root of the problem, the more people we’ll find that contribute to it and the fewer we’ll find that are willing to acknowledge it.
I’m sorry you’re too innocent or delusional to believe that money doesn’t impact nearly every aspect of our lives.
You willfully neglected the whole point of my comment. Show us the data that school shooters are influenced by income or class warfare? Not even Marx would stoop as low as you guys do to frame every. Single. Issue. Through. One. Single. Lens.
I’m not here to argue with you, lol.
Because you don’t have an argument. All you have is “class warfare”. You don’t have concrete paths to solutions. Just virtue signaling. That’s it. That’s all you got.
Okay. Believe whatever you want.
Give me something more than “the class warfare of the burgeosie is indicative of the increased prevalence of school shootings”. Im always open to changing my beliefs
Clearly!
There’ve been a bunch of initiatives the past couple years (since Biden took office) to provide free gun locks and lock boxes. There’s really no excuse not to have one.
I have not heard of this at all.
Yep. A bunch of police departments give out cable locks if you just ask. I bought one for $4 because I don’t want to go to the police department for any reason and I use it to lock my helmet to my motorcycle.
It’s not a perfect solution but it’s cheap and helpful.
I’d like to know more!
That may or may not work while not reducing rights. Hmm… I’d give it a go.
“But I need my gun at the ready at all times! Plus there is one time I saw the lockpicking lawyer pick a gun lock and I’m certain all thieves have seen it.”
I’ve seen that shit argued soooo many times. Unless it is 100% failsafe, there are still a stupid amount of people that will think it’s useless. It reminds me of people who do not wear seat belts because they heard about one person who was saved because they were thrown from a car. They will use that 0.01% of times to curse their own irresponsible behavior.