School shootings on the rise

[barbara]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The Alabama state Senate voted 23-3 Tuesday in favor of allowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed on public property. While touting the successful passage of the bill he’d sponsored, Republican State Senator Gerald Dial remarked that the Christian monument could help prevent school shootings... “I believe that if you had the Ten Commandments posted in a prominent place in school, it has the possibility to prohibit some student from taking action to kill other students.”



http://www.newsweek.com/ten-commandm...ian-roy-827195

I think better gun laws would be more effective.

[Chicks]

Florida legislature backs new gun restrictions after Parkland school shooting

Good for them!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...815_story.html

Florida lawmakers bucked the National Rifle Association Wednesday to pass new firearms regulations and create a program for arming some school employees in a rare act of Republican compromise on the divisive issue of gun violence.

The response to the slayings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., signaled a major shift for a state known as a legal laboratory for gun rights activists. It could become a blueprint for other states looking at new measures to address mass shootings.

A bipartisan vote of 67-50 in the state House ended an emotional three-week process, in which the state’s legislative leadership toured the bloodstained hallways at the high school, and thousands of students marched on the state capital in Tallahassee to demand change.

After weeks of debate, lawmakers approved a bill that would impose a three-day waiting period for most purchases of long guns and raise the minimum age for purchasing those weapons to 21. The legislation also includes millions of dollars to improve school security and train and arm school employees.

[barbara]

I can see some holes in this legislation. But, I am sure it pacifies those who want to see something done.

[Rajoo]

Does not look like the students are going to give in to this pacification. They were looking for an assault weapons ban and if they agitate enough till the elections, a lot of these legislators beholden to the NRA are going to lose en masse.

[Oerets]

In my state (IN) they (GOP CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE) are going after a FREE CCP for everyone who passes a background check every five years. NO CLASSES TESTING JUST A FREE 4 ALL BACKGROUND CHECK.....WTF!!!! NO CHECKING OF WEAPON TRANSFERS....

HOPEFULLY IT WILL NOT PASS!


Barney

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The Alabama state Senate voted 23-3 Tuesday in favor of allowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed on public property. While touting the successful passage of the bill he’d sponsored, Republican State Senator Gerald Dial remarked that the Christian monument could help prevent school shootings... “I believe that if you had the Ten Commandments posted in a prominent place in school, it has the possibility to prohibit some student from taking action to kill other students.”

http://www.newsweek.com/ten-commandm...ian-roy-827195

Perhaps shaped as pairs of large commandments tablets to be used as bullet shields.
Waiting for the editorial page cartoon.

[finnbow]

(CNN)Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February 14.
The law, known as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, tightens gun control in several ways but also allows some teachers to be armed.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/09/us/fl...ill/index.html

So, immediately the NRA sues Florida:

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/ne...law/412365002/

[Rajoo]

This lawsuit may have to go all the way to the Supreme Court and NRA could win this.
As long as the NRA is opposed to any and every common sense legislation, nothing will ever change as far as gun ownership.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

This lawsuit may have to go all the way to the Supreme Court and NRA could win this.
As long as the NRA is opposed to any and every common sense legislation, nothing will ever change as far as gun ownership.

I don't know that they'll win this. It is legal to limit the purchase of handguns to 21 years. The Constitution makes no distinction between handguns and long guns.

[Chicks]

Don't see the NRA winning this. States have age-restrictive laws on alcohol, cigarettes, driving, voting, enlisting, marriage, sex... plenty of precedent.