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HOLY SHIT!

That's a set of balls.

HOLY SHIT!!!!!

That's a set of balls. My heart started to race just watching that.

HOLY SHIT!!!!!

That's a set of balls. My heart started to race just watching that.

Those cops had some balls for sure.

Now Ban Gay!

I don't follow your point. Are you advocating for stricter gun laws in Tennessee and banning all white men from access to guns? Are you saying we need more mental support services for kids with gender confusion?

As of last night there was still a lot of conflicting information. The Chief of Police at the press briefing called this Audrey Hale a "Transgender Woman". What does that mean? Did they start out as a guy and want to become a woman, or did they start as a girl and want to become a guy????

I thought they had confirmed she was a man being a women but now I’m not sure and even more confused, they still were also Confused.

I think she was born a girl.

That's some seriously competent police work right there. These guys earned their pay.

Not like those useless pant-loads at Parkland.

I don't follow your point. Are you advocating for stricter gun laws in Tennessee and banning all white men from access to guns? Are you saying we need more mental support services for kids with gender confusion?

*“Transgender killer targets Christian school,” the cover of the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post blared in giant letters, while the #TransTerrorism hashtag trended on Twitter.

There have been dozens of mass shootings this year, and researchers have found that [98% of such attacks]('https://www.theviolenceproject.org/key-findings/') are carried out by men. But some far-right politicians and activists used the Nashville shooting to baselessly claim there is an “epidemic of trans/non-binary mass shooters,” as Donald Trump Jr. [put it on Twitter]('https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1640520340630585345').

Some conservatives including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Fox News host Laura Ingraham suggested hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness were a factor, despite no public information about whether the shooter was taking such drugs.

“Everyone can stop blaming guns now,” Greene tweeted.*

[Some on the right blame gender identity and not guns for Nashville shooting]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/blame-gender-identity-not-guns-195350846.html')

[AZCentral | The Arizona Republic]('https://www.azcentral.com/')
Opinion
[HEADING=2]These overlooked aspects of the Nashville shooting should bring us to our knees[/HEADING]

There was something extraordinary and something ordinary about the Nashville school shooting on Monday that should throttle our sense of wellbeing and fill us with dread.

Audrey Hale, who Nashville police described as a 28-year-old “biological woman who, on a social media profile, used male pronouns” carried a small arsenal of weapons and ammo into a grade school and opened fire on children and adults, killing three of each.

Given that description of the shooter, national media were quick to describe Monday’s shooting as [a black swan event]('https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/us/woman-shooter-nashville.html'). The New York Times noted that there have been only four female perpetrators of mass shootings going back to 1966, according to The Violence Project’s national data base.

On Monday, that was much of the talk in America. But it was not the most extraordinary or surprising thing that happened Monday in Nashville.

Not at all.

[HEADING=1]Those bullets weren't just aimed at kids[/HEADING]

Because nothing startles us like an American adult, be they man or woman, looking into the eyes of a child and, without an ounce of remorse or tender feeling, lifting a gun and firing.

With every student killed, Audrey Hale was not just aiming at a child, but at a mother and father, sisters and brothers, grandmothers and grandfathers, cousins and playmates – all of whom also took the bullet and will suffer psychologically for years to come.

How does any person become so thoroughly drained of humanity that they take the lives of children and inflict so much pain on those who loved them? How could anyone take something so precious from a mother?

Such depravity is painful to comprehend. Thus, the most shocking aspect of any rampage shooting is not the gun.

Not the bullet. Not the suspect. But the faint electrical impulse sent from the brain to the trigger finger that finally tells it to squeeze.

From such minute movements come monsters.

But what made the monster?

[HEADING=1]Shootings tell us our culture is broken[/HEADING]
A rampage shooting provokes instant fear, but based on the numbers, they’re the equivalent of a lightning strike.

There are [115,576 schools in the United States]('https://www.weareteachers.com/how-many-schools-are-in-the-us/'), according to the idea-sharing site WeAreTeachers.com.

Before Monday, there had been [at least five mass killings at K-12 schools]('https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/27/nashville-shooting-covenant-school/') in the last 10 years – one every two years, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.

It is small comfort, but the odds of this happening at your child’s school are infinitesimal.

Because these shootings are shocking to behold and starting to happen in intervals we sense something is seriously wrong with our culture.

Some of you will reflexively say it’s the guns. You’ll get no argument here. We have way too many guns in America in the hands of people who are irresponsible and malicious.

Audrey Hale is a prime example.

Armed with semi-automatic weapons, along with a large supply of ammo, Hale might have killed many more children and school staff had Nashville Police not heroically stopped the carnage.

[HEADING=1]Guns alone don't explain mass shootings[/HEADING]
But guns alone can’t explain this.

We have a culture that is producing enough dead souls who kill without remorse that mass shootings are becoming the outlier that keeps on happening.

Which raises a problem far more common and that eats away at our culture like rust on an engine. With every one of these shootings now, Americans have leaped into political combat before even acknowledging the human loss.

Much of this was birthed by the internet, whose connectivity with every vulgar person and vulgar thought has made the online universe brutish and dehumanizing.

These qualities have carried over to the real world and have made us cruel.

Soon after the Nashville shooting was announced the exhibitionists were already out on social media, seizing the advantage and shaping the news to their political agenda.

Victims get lost in such moments as rivals play their game of “Which Side Wins the Day?”

[HEADING=1]As long as we exploit pain, we'll never recover[/HEADING]
Just as Americans were beginning to comprehend the news, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blamed Republicans for the Nashville shooting.

“How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban?”

Soon after, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, blamed Democrats. “If early reports are accurate that trans shooter targeted a Christian school, there needs to be a lot of [soul searching on the extreme left]('https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1640501236343382016').”

These were more mannered ways of exploiting the tragedy of children and families, but they were exploitation nonetheless. The social media universe, by comparison, was a cesspool.

America has become “the sick man” that we used to see in other flagging nations and cultures, such as Soviet Russia or Chavista Venezuela.

As long as our first impulse after every mass shooting is to ignore the shooter and blame the Americans we don’t like, we will remain bedridden and infirm and will never be well enough to end the violence.

Now Ban Gay!

Maybe, or not. I can tell you what all these shooters do have in common is that they're f-ing nuts and need mental help. It doesn't matter what type of weapon a psycho bent on destruction has. When they walk into a place where nobody is capable of challenging them, they're going to wreak havoc. But let's exploit the tragedy to keep calling for useless things, because agenda, instead of going after the real cause.

It also doesn't help that the radical left is exploiting the above group of mentally ill people and denying them the help they need by pretending their issues need to be celebrated instead of treated just to further their agenda.

Maybe, or not. I can tell you what all these shooters do have in common is that they're f-ing nuts and need mental help. It doesn't matter what type of weapon a psycho bent on destruction has. When they walk into a place where nobody is capable of challenging them, they're going to wreak havoc. But let's exploit the tragedy to keep calling for useless things, because agenda, instead of going after the real cause.

It also doesn't help that the radical left is exploiting the above group of mentally ill people and denying them the help they need by pretending their issues need to be celebrated instead of treated just to further their agenda.

the USA does not have a monopoly on sick sons of bitches. We do have a monopoly on mass shootings (especially in schools) by those sick sons of bitches. WHY?? Because we have the most GUNS in the world and yet have only 5% of the worlds population.....so could it be the GUNS??? Nah!!

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The U.S. continues to grapple with [devastating mass shootings]('https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/three-children-two-adults-dead-after-shooting-at-nashville-school'), with dozens killed as a result in March alone, per data from the [Gun Violence Archive]('https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?page=1').

By the numbers: At least 57 people have died in 38 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this month, with another 133 injured.

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The U.S. continues to grapple with [devastating mass shootings]('https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/three-children-two-adults-dead-after-shooting-at-nashville-school'), with dozens killed as a result in March alone, per data from the [Gun Violence Archive]('https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?page=1').

By the numbers: At least 57 people have died in 38 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this month, with another 133 injured.

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the USA does not have a monopoly on sick sons of bitches. We do have a monopoly on mass shootings (especially in schools) by those sick sons of bitches. WHY?? Because we have the most GUNS in the world and yet have only 5% of the worlds population.....so could it be the GUNS??? Nah!!

I just explained that. There's plenty of mass killings worldwide, guns or not. The agenda is focused on the wrong thing.

Thats outta control
These peeps are over the top and might as well just put their kids in dark padded rooms so they don’t have to see whats in the world or learn how to exist in it

Ah, the "clot thickens"...

[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Visitors flock to see David sculpture after Florida uproar[/SIZE][/HEADING]
[pressherald.com/2023/03/28/visitors-flock-to-see-david-sculpture-after-florida-uproar/]('https://www.pressherald.com/2023/03/28/visitors-flock-to-see-david-sculpture-after-florida-uproar/')

By TRISHA THOMAS March 28, 2023
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Visitors stand in front of Michelangelo’s “David statue” in the Accademia Gallery on Tuesday in Florence. Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press

FLORENCE, Italy — Visitors flocked to see Michelangelo’s David sculpture in Florence on Tuesday, following an uproar over a Florida school’s decision to force the resignation of the principal over complaints about a lesson featuring the Renaissance masterpiece.

Tourists, many of them Americans on spring break or studying abroad, posed for selfies in front of the giant marble statue, which features the Biblical David, naked with a sling over his shoulder and a rock in his hand, ready for battle with Goliath.

Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia, which houses the sculpture, reopened Tuesday after its weekly Monday closure, and both tourists and locals alike couldn’t get over the controversy.
“It’s part of history,” said Isabele Joles from Ohio, who is studying French and Italian art with her school group. “I don’t understand how you can say it’s porn.”

She and other visitors were reacting to the decision by Tallahassee Classical School board to pressure Principal Hope Carrasquilla to resign last week after an image of the David was shown to a sixth-grade art class.
Carrasquilla believes the board targeted her after three parents complained because they weren’t notified in advance that a nude image would be shown, while a third called the iconic statue, which is considered the height of Renaissance sculpture, pornographic. The school has a policy requiring parents to be notified in advance about “controversial” topics being taught.

Over the weekend, both Florence’s mayor and the museum director voiced incredulity over the ruckus and issued invitations for the ousted principal and the school community to come and see the sculpture for themselves.

“We are talking about the roots of Western culture, and ‘David’ is the height, the height of beauty,” museum director Cecilie Hollberg said in an interview Tuesday, as tourists brushed past her snapping selfies with the statue.

The controversy wasn’t only a topic of conversation in Florence. On Monday night in Tallahassee, a large crowd showed up for a school board meeting with public comment on the issue of the David statue controversy lasting over an hour, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. Some parents and teachers criticized the board and even asked chairman Barney Bishop to step aside.

“Given the dissatisfaction of all these parents with your leadership, would you be willing to lead us by integrity by resigning?” asked teacher Ben Steigner.

Bishop refused, saying he intends to remain as chairman through the end of his term in May and then another year on the board, the newspaper reported. The five trustees are elected by themselves, not the parents, and serve three-year terms. New Principal Cara Wynn told the school board that nine students had left the school since the David controversy began, but that three had enrolled.

Tallahassee Classical is a charter school. While it is taxpayer-funded and tuition-free, it operates almost entirely independently of the local school district and is sought out by parents seeking an alternative to the public school curriculum. About 400 students from kindergarten through 12th grade attend the three-year-old institution, which is now on its third principal. It follows a curriculum designed by Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Michigan frequently consulted by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on educational issues.

The Florida Department of Education, however, has distanced itself from the controversy and the school’s decision.

“The Statue of David has artistic and historical value. Florida encourages instruction on the classics and classical art, and would not prohibit its use in instruction,” the department said in a statement. “The matter at the Tallahassee Classical School is between the school and an employee, and is not the effect of state rule or law.”

At the museum on Tuesday, tourist Brian Stapley from Seattle Washington said he was sad for the school’s children.

“It’s one of the most incredible parts of our history,” he said as he waited on line to get into the museum. “I feel incredibly sorry for the children that don’t get to see it.”

This is dangerous. How do we know it's a drill & not preperations for the real thing?

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The Russian Foreign Ministry initially said Moscow would keep notifying the U.S. about planned test launches of its ballistic missiles, but Ryabkov's statement reflected a change of course.

“There will be no notifications at all,” Ryabkov said when asked if Moscow would also stop issuing notices about planned missile tests. “All notifications, all kinds of notifications, all activities under the treaty. will be suspended and will not be conducted regardless of what position the U.S. may take.”

This is dangerous. How do we know it's a drill & not preperations for the real thing?

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The Russian Foreign Ministry initially said Moscow would keep notifying the U.S. about planned test launches of its ballistic missiles, but Ryabkov's statement reflected a change of course.

“There will be no notifications at all,” Ryabkov said when asked if Moscow would also stop issuing notices about planned missile tests. “All notifications, all kinds of notifications, all activities under the treaty. will be suspended and will not be conducted regardless of what position the U.S. may take.”

Cause only 15 million world wide terrorists walked over the border. Still a lot more to go.before the great purge.

I just explained that. There's plenty of mass killings worldwide, guns or not. The agenda is focused on the wrong thing.

[HEADING=2]The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined[/HEADING]

SO what focus is wrong?? If it's not the GUNS...what is it? windmills?

Not good

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