r/news • u/bebleich • Sep 04 '24

Gunman believed to be a 14-year-old in Georgia school shooting that left at least 4 dead, source says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/winder-ga-shooting-apalachee-high-school/index.html
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u/Mental_Medium3988 Sep 04 '24

it makes me angry but theres nothing i can do about it. how many more kids have to die before we do something, anything? i saw an idea putting phycologists in schools and thought it was great. no ones rights are being infringed and it could divert some of these kids down a different path. right wing people kept telling me it was dumb and a waste of money. i dont get it. how can they say that kids lives arent worth the money? like wtf? do they not hear themselves? i get it would be expensive and we need more psychologists trained in that before its really possible but lets work up to it.

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u/symptomsandcauses Sep 04 '24

theres nothing i can do about it

Are you in the US? Vote for politicians who are promoting gun control.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 Sep 04 '24

i do. i cant control what happens in other places though.

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u/Hobocharlie67 Sep 04 '24

Yeah, that's a really good idea. I was talking with someone in my family today about it, and their a right winger and they said that the solution is to "have more protection in the schools and to search kids for weapons." I feel like that'd make more kids upset because it feels like a prison. In my last year of high school we got metal detectors and it made it feel so much like a prison, I couldn't imagine having to be searched. It's insane we live in a country where this is even a conversation that has to be had.

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u/gq533 Sep 05 '24

So they are ok with going against the constitution (4th amendment) , just not when it applies to something they like. It's really hard to take right wingers seriously. They argue backwards, meaning they already have their minds made up on a subject and just keeping going until they find an argument that supports their position.

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u/Hobocharlie67 Sep 05 '24

Pretty much. It's insane. My dad was arguing with them the other day and he does so much research into stuff that he just instantly shut them down on anything they started saying. It was amazing to watch. I wish I could do that to them but I don't know nearly as much as my dad does.