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[–]dingoatemytaco 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

How would you feel about sending your kids to school in Texas?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/25/joe-biden/joe-biden-said-mass-shootings-tripled-when-assault

(This is why we have government, so we're not gunned down on a regular basis. But with 50 GOP in the pockets of the NRA, there is no justice. The 'fed' is the problem, because they're licking NRA boots, killing House Bill 8 two years ago, letting the AR ban expire, and now you want to call any challenge to these asshats fed bootlicking? No way Jose. Let's hope this is a BIG election issue in November. Time for a change, for a fed that works for the 99%.)

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I'm great with Texas. More legal gun owners means less crime.

[–]dingoatemytaco 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In elementary schools? Are you implying that those kids should have been armed, and now they've been shot because they weren't? 1st - guns are not allowd in school. 2nd - lax gun laws have lead to 3x more mass shootings, per the note above. That increase is also associated with Texas mass shootings. Read:

https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2019/texas-10-years-of-mass-shootings-timeline/

https://abc13.com/mass-shootings-in-texas-houston-shooting-deaths-violent-crime/10906137/

https://news.sky.com/story/texas-school-shooting-the-six-maps-and-charts-which-show-the-state-of-mass-gun-violence-in-the-us-12621141

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41488081

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101050970/2022-school-shootings-so-far

Anyway - none of this is meant as an argument, as you can search for this information as well as I can. I've bothered to respond because this issue should be important to you.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

The right to bear arms is very important to me. I'm sorry you're so emotional about this. It's gonna be okay.