On the topic of carrying concealed weapons on campus...

[pyat]

There's a movement in the U.S. to permit students to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, in order to defend themselves against school shooters. One problem with this idea was raised by the police chief at the University of Cincinnati:

"I shoot everybody with a gun, who doesn't have a uniform on."

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Re: preaching choirwise

[heron61.livejournal.com]

The thing that gets me is the American attitude towards taxes. It's as though we don't understand that;...

This is not an accident, this has been a deliberate 25+ year effort by "starve the beast" libertarians and neocons high up in government to spread these attitudes. This attitude largely didn't exist before the mid 1970s - the vast majority of people complained about taxes, but didn't consider them to be evil or unnecessary. The most ludicrous extension of this was the late 80s phrase "tax & spend Democrats" - I remember my dad's comment on that "Isn't taxing and spending what the government should be doing?" We've had 25+ years of people deliberately attempting to destroy the entire idea of progressive government - from the supposed evils of "activist judges" (I don't want any other kind), to "tax revolts" to similar sorts of equally vile nonsense. I'm hoping that the current economic problems (which show every sign of getting worse), combined with the equally disastrous war will help turn people away from this madness.