What can be done about mass shootings in America?

This is why something can't be done about mass shootings in America.

Laura Ingraham cares about the Crumbley's about as much as she, or her employer, cares about Kyle Rittenhouse, but they're definitely going to use them to push their narrative.

The Crumbley parents allowed their son access to guns, they even bought him one and when the school found him researching ammunition while at school, his mother laughed and told him to not get caught. He killed students and Laura thinks holding the parents responsible for enabling to do so is going too far.

Think how many steps back you would have to take from putting forward such a position to be even in the same room as talking about preventing mass shootings. And Laura, and her channel, are massive opinion makers in conservative America. They, the NRA, the gun companies, the politicians all know exactly what is going on

I'm sure it has been said throughout the thread but nothing can be done about the shootings. If they didn't do something after toddlers were blown away at sandy hook, then that's all the evidence you'll need to show it will never change.

Jesus Christ but the conservative mindset is a strange one. Laura Ingraham pretty much went down the same path with this nonsense, blaming the school and even the DA for charging the parents.

Did the school buy the gun the child used? Did the school ignore the child researching ammunition? Why is the school responsible when it comes to stopping fatal shootings, but the same people demanding this of them refuse to let them allow to have the kids or teachers mandated to wear masks in schools?

As for suggesting metal detectors at schools because they are at Hollywood awards ceremonies. Do you have any idea how many schools there are across the country? Where will the money come from for this? Conservatives would be more than happy to see less materials and resources in the classroom and metal detectors in the halls I imagine, but sane people should be appalled at the thought.

In many states it's not illegal to buy a gun for your child. Manufacturers such as Keystone Sporting Arms make Cricket rifles that are specifically designed for youths to use. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/crickett-rifle-marketing-kids/

The laws around pistols are more strict though. Each state is different but the rules are pretty lax in some states. Even Fedral law can be lax enough. https://faq.sll.texas.gov/questions/42870

I wouldn't be blaming the school in any way here. I'd be blaming the parents for allowing unsupervised access to the firearm and I'd be blaming the kid for being a nut job. We always had firearms at home when I was a kid and I was allowed to shoot with my Dad but there was no way I was allowed to go near a gun when he wasn't there.

I'm fine with a 15 year old doing something like target shooting etc. under supervision but there's no way I'd be giving them free access to a gun to carry around with them whenever they felt like it.

BS. This line in particular is just crazy.

How do you even write that without thinking for a second about what actually happened. The evidence is that the parents were gun fanatics who encouraged their son both to use guns, and to hide his behaviour from the school. The signs of mental disturbance which the student displayed were also picked up and actioned by the school, not the parents.

The parents should have seen what was right in front of them, given they actively helped created it. And I'm not just talking about ensuring the boy was born, but the access to guns, the right to have guns mindset, the advice to hide a desire to use guns from the school, were all the work of the parents.

As I said yesterday, your conservative brethern won't thank you for strongly advocating a schools responsibility ahead of a parents given their position on topics such as the wearing of masks to reduce the impact of Covid and the accurate teaching of history etc, etc.

California taking a lead from Texas's decision to impact womens healthcare choices.

I visited my sister in law in New York in Dec19. Her son's school had a permanently manned NYPD desk just inside the door! I'm sure its repeated across the city in most or every other school.

I've just heard that a 22 year old police officer has been shot dead with one other police officer critically injured in the Harlem area of NYC. He was on call duty to a domestic dispute between a mother and her son in the borough.

I also seen tonight on CNN that there was a woman who attended a school board meeting in the state of Virginia formally charged with officially threatening to bring in a loaded gun into a public school. And she made this threat to the school as she was against her kids being forced to comply with the covid mask mandates being enforced in that state.

The U.S. is truly one f*cked up country if they have people coming in as parents of a children attending a public school to come in to the ground of the facility potentially threatening to open fire on people who are just doing their job in enforcing these mandates on them.

Stuff like that would make you go utterly crazy if you did not have your wits about you at the most critical time. It's not just the young kids coming as school shooters. It's the parents of these kids, or maybe innocent kids, that are coming in & doing it as well.

Tell me what could you think would be the right to do in that situation. Could you go nuts seeing that potential incident unfold right in front of your eyes or would you have the bravery to try & be as calm & collected as possible while the police try to diffuse it when it happens right of you or other innocent people?