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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 07:37 PM Feb 2018

One idea - insist the NRA leadership gets to that school now. And as many NRA supported

politicians as can be rounded up. Have them clean up the crime scene. Have them talk to the families of the dead so they can explain to them why guns are so important - and why NRA money is so important.

And don't let them leave - any of them, until each one of them has talked to each parent.

Nowhere to hide for them. Nowhere.

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One idea - insist the NRA leadership gets to that school now. And as many NRA supported (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 OP
Novel Idea....NEVER Happen SoCalMusicLover Feb 2018 #1
I know where youre at with this. MontanaMama Feb 2018 #2
when 20 6 & 7 year old kids are mowed down & nothing happened Motley13 Feb 2018 #3
Something similar happened before SCantiGOP Feb 2018 #4
I suspect that they wouldn't respond to the request. fescuerescue Feb 2018 #5
My idea is that it would NOT be an option - it would be mandatory. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 #6
What would be the mechanism to make it mandatory? fescuerescue Feb 2018 #7
I am blue sky brainstorming here and in no way it would even remotely possible in these sick times NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 #8

MontanaMama

(23,315 posts)
2. I know where youre at with this.
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 07:47 PM
Feb 2018

I know people will say it’s a pipe dream and maybe it is....but I get it. I was fantasizing that the NRA should have to pay for metal detectors and staff to monitor them at every freaking school in the country. The fact is, however, if someone aspiring to murder children makes it out of their car and across a parking lot with a semi automatic rifle...there isn’t a metal detector and monitor that can stop them. If they make it through the doors at school, somebody is going to die.

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
3. when 20 6 & 7 year old kids are mowed down & nothing happened
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 07:58 PM
Feb 2018

you know NOTHING will happen with 17 high school kids mowed down, unless it is one of the congress people's kids, that might mean something to them, obviously nothing else does, just the NRA

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)
4. Something similar happened before
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 08:23 PM
Feb 2018

After the fall of the Nazis and liberation of the death camps Eisenhower forced the residents of nearby towns to go to the camps and help bury the dead. He did this for two reasons:
So no one would ever be able to deny the enormity of what happened,
And, because he was disgusted by those townspeople claiming that they had not known what was happening there.

While we know it couldn’t happen, it would be just and fair to require the gun makers, NRA, and their Congressional supporters to visit the sites before the bodies are removed. See if they can look on the broken, dead bodies of those children and say, “Just the cost of freedom.”

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
5. I suspect that they wouldn't respond to the request.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:23 AM
Feb 2018

The NRA has certainly mastered public relations and I bet they would spot that trap in about .1 seconds

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
7. What would be the mechanism to make it mandatory?
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:31 AM
Feb 2018

I'm guessing a law or ordinance, but I suspect that it might run afoul of other constitutional issues.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
8. I am blue sky brainstorming here and in no way it would even remotely possible in these sick times
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:42 AM
Feb 2018

We've jumped the shark...gone through the looking glass.

Makes absolutely no sense. Then again, little has since the election was stolen a little over a year ago.

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