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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Why are school shootings a sole unique American problem?
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There is very little that American youth experience that other countries youth do not experience.
The biggest difference is their access to guns.
Everything else is present in every other country
The biggest difference is their access to guns.
Everything else is present in every other country
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I don't think that's the biggest thing. Most American youth do not have ready access to guns. But all American youth endure the harshness of the essential dog-eat-dog nature of American culture, which is singularly the worst of any Western nation. American high school culture is barely above prison culture in its personality-degrading nature, and well below military culture.
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Protecting our children takes a huge chunk out of school budgets. Our district has its own police force, and wants to have a full time security officer on each campus. Secure entrances, bulletproof glass on windows, new door locks and doors are expensive.
Money that could be spent on education instead were it not for America's gun obsession.
College students keep phones handy for text messages telling them to take shelter during campus shootings.
I'm not saying "Jesus take the wheel." My prayer is more focused. Jesus, take the guns.
Money that could be spent on education instead were it not for America's gun obsession.
College students keep phones handy for text messages telling them to take shelter during campus shootings.
I'm not saying "Jesus take the wheel." My prayer is more focused. Jesus, take the guns.
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