Not reading anything…I’ve nearly evolved into some combination of nihilism and disdain for everyone.

whatever...you're splitting hairs...the good guy with a gun should have been the cops in this situation...

but bullshit your way along that fence ID....you always do.

Again...and I don't' care anymore...you win...save some energy for the next one. I mean it. I'm not even advocating a position except yours is dumb and not worth spending anymore time on.

The good guy with a gun arrived about when the cable guy would have…way later than he was needed and a few dozen people too late.

Anyway…save some energy for the next school shooting ID.

We are already numb to it. Look at all this outrage that will ultimately lead nowhere. It will lead literally no where.

The American school is anything but a school these days. It's the crossroads of everything that is wrong and sick with American culture. It's where all the parents who don't want to raise their own children meet. It's where these same parents expect the schools to raise children and get outraged any time the school does anything even remotely disagreeable.

It's a place where all of the corners or our socioeconomic spectrum meet. And they don't meld together, it accelerates the process of children splintering off into their own sects and alliances. The politics and drama of teen years is top priority. It's never more obvious to an adolescent who got the inside track in life and who didn't in the American public high school. In fact, it's waved in faces almost as if to taunt the majority who are clearly not on the inside track of American life.

It's a place where teachers are completely controlled (or at least attempted to be controlled) by policies that control curriculum down to the minute level. It's a place where curriculum is altered so as not to offend anyone with any particular knowledge or whose sensitivities might be challenged. In fact, in many places in this country, schools are about indoctrinating people into accepting the American system and way of life. A typical history curriculum in this country will leave out details like: George Washington had slaves! The problem is indoctrination doesn't require teaching someone to think. In fact, it requires the opposite.

It's a place where the special needs population is grossly underserved. A child with special needs in this country can make it through 12 years of schooling without learning a single new skill.

And as schools in this country slowly look more and more like prisons in which factions of 'gangs' fight over hallways like the French and the Germans fought in trench warfare in WW1, the solution to gun violence gets lost. And the secondary and tertiary problems surrounding it all become increasingly unaddressed. Fuck...we can't even agree that there is a problem in the first place.

Battling inflation is something both parties agree on….but neither do anything about.

This scares me for two reasons….we are once again attacking each other. What we won’t do is look for solutions. And two…more frightening is that there may not be a solution.

Make no mistake about it….the price of oil by the barrel is less than it was when Trump was president…but gas is more expensive. Why?

I accept school shootings are Americana now.  Why not? We don’t give a shit about each other. Guns have more rights then people.