In the previous post I mentioned that most of the employees at public schools are women. It wasn’t meant as a drawback, and I wouldn’t send my young children to schools where the majority of instructors were men. I meant mainly that they were probably physically less strong than a psychotic male, teenage shooter(they’re pretty much all male). Despite that, their level-headedness during these situations; locking the door, keeping their class quiet is heroic. Again, assigning private security according the number of students would be a fairly wise step in the right direction.
Now. The FBI was tipped off about the Florida shooter’s desire to massacre a school a month ago, but “didn’t follow protocols”. Someone close to shooter Cruz apparently detailed to the FBI Cruz’s crazed social media posts and clear desire to shoot up a school, but nothing came of it, and now Florida governor Rick Scott is rightly asking FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign following such a massive screw-up. And if Wray were decent, he would do it. But in all probability, he’s not, and he won’t. Because, after all, the FBI is working overtime to pin a fantastical Russian conspiracy theory on Trump, and doesn’t have time to devote to real situations. And their lack of attention to true pressing matters has resulting in 17 kids dead at the hands of someone that they could’ve stopped.
BUT. But. This is all to place an unjustified faith in our government to keep us safe. And this is clearly an example of how our safety isn’t their priority, which means it’s up to us to keep ourselves and our children safe. Asking Trump to “do something” is meaningless. Clamoring for stricter gun control is meaningless. The problem most of us have is an unjustified faith in ‘other people’ to keep us and our kids safe. That responsibility falls on us, as is the responsibility to not believe government when it says it will keep us safe. ‘Gun control’ isn’t what prevents society from devolving into some Mad Max-style dystopia. Governments do little more than steal from and surveil those that elect them. Our safety isn’t their priority, so we should stop pretending it is.
Ed: This site gets a flurry of clicks sometime after 8pm, and continues to go up until around 2am. I appreciate the night owls, as I am one as well. I’ll continue to post every morning, but I will also begin tailoring/increasing content for the night crowd as well. Thanks for the views.
