take a long political fight. While that’s going on, several hundred million more guns are manufactured, advertised as one’s key to manhood or needed in the coming unrest, etc.

People basically don't give a shit until it's their kids' school that gets shot up... and even then life goes on.

I grew up with air raid drills and the threat of nuclear war. Of course that threat remains but that's another story.

I read about lock-down and active shooter drills. I read about turning our schools into armed fortresses. Everyone seems just fine with the status quo.

Nothing changes until enough people get pissed off enough to either vote the useless assholes out of office or have sustained mass demonstrations (aka Vietnam) that force action. Mass demonstrations aren't going to happen. People can't be bothered.

Vote the assholes out? Maybe but that implies that people are truly disturbed by the endless mass killings.

The United States was just fine with a bunch of first graders getting blown apart in school. What more needs to be said.

It is a sad commentary on our society.

call your congress person. no gun legislation, no vote for him her next time

What if teacher's unions across the country staged a walkout and held a strike until the laws are passed?

How many days could they hold out?
How many schools could be affected?
Would it be enough to cause disruption and put the pressure on lawmakers?

If not the teachers, who? You know kids and parents would likely picket too...good optics. 😉

The publicity, + pissed off parents.....

It used to be that we smoked in planes and restaurants and anywhere we wanted. Then, something in our culture changed. How did that happen?

It used to be that drunk driving was more or less a “fact of life.” Now, it’s not. How did that change come about?

It used to be that joking about bothering women, abusing them, insulting them was acceptable. Now, it’s not.

It used to be that racist language was much more acceptable in our society. Now, it’s not. His did this change happen?

Change has happened in the past and can happen again. How can we make that happen??

It started in a living room in Summit, N.J. Regina Carlson decided she had has enough. For a couple of years, she went from town council meeting to meeting. At first she was laughed at. The Tobacco Institute said she was "like being pecked to death by ducks."

She wrote letters to her town paper (remember those?). People started approaching her at the end of her presentations. They wanted to work with her.

About a year later, she started N.J.G.A.S.P. (Group Against Smoking Pollution). She got radio interviews, along with callers from surrounding states, wanting to make their states smoke free. Towns began issuing smoke free ordinances which were challenged in courts and sustained.

And on and on, until the NJ legislature passed Smoke Free N.J. Bill.


THE PROBLEM IS - we already have national organizations But we have corrupt legislators and a corrupt court.

Yes. Where do we go from here?

release by families of crime scene photos if in their possession, or authorization for their release, would kick-start some movement

With a few notable exceptions conversations down here are often very cordial.

(Ironically, the name calling and death wishes I have experienced have not come from the "amosexuals&quot

Quite a few of my proposals get alerted and removed. People don't want to hear things that do not comport with their understanding of life. Instead of questioning what is posted, people click "alert."

unlikely perhaps, but it would get attention and isn't impossible, so not ridiculous.

I understand; I recently faced an alert storm by some who did like what I was saying. Interestingly I had a very pleasant PM conversation with the person I was debating. They were upset that someone had alerted. Our public conversation was passionate, but we found mutual respect for each other's passion though we were in overall disagreement.

Personally, I much prefer outside the box thinking over those whose beginning, middle and end solution is "ban". The more I think about it, I believe your idea has merit.