Why can’t Republicans ever create a decent counter narrative about gun control? They play defense on AWBs and offer nothing workable in return. Trump and the dum-dums should have been pushing a “School Safety Act” within the first 24 hours with:

-Funding for security cameras, keyed entry, and armed guards.
-School safety inspectors to conduct periodic safety reviews and assign schools letter grades to be posted in public areas and sent to parents (like restaurant safety ratings).
-National tip line for school violence and bullying
-Registration of all unlicensed machine guns to ensure these weapons do not become involved in school shootings.

Add a $0.15 national gas tax to pay for it with strict stipulations that it’s used for only these purposes. I would like to see anyone oppose that, filibustering it would be political suicide…

There is a project in the works to counter the calls for more gun control.
I'm of the opinion that it should not be a Republican response, but a commonsense reply to statism and controlism.
There are plenty of R's and D's on the controlist side of things... D's are worse on gun control, but it is not limited to them.

Those dum-dums didn't have one ready to go? Did they think they think this day would never come? Do they ever plan ahead?

Seriously, they suck soooooooo much at this.

Those are great idea, smjeyre. Send that shit off to Whitehouse.gov and the RNC home office. Since we have a blue state, that is your only recourse for having that opinion heard

Educate me here, i was under the impression that there wasn't really such a thing in America anymore as unlicensed machine guns.

Also, I dont believe new taxes are necessary to pay for security, there is plenty of waste already in fed gov spending.

That's giving them a bone, to grind and dull their teeth, but has no meat on it (unlicensed machine guns). It sounds great! And you haven't lost one additional thing that hasn't been surrendered in the '68GCA.

The tax thing hits the pocket book and may dull the appetite.

I would be amazed if they even looked at it.




It's a cute way of saying "MG amnesty". Agree on spending, but this makes it easier to sell.

They'll never look at something never sent.

So the Fed gas tax can go up .35. AWESOME!!!!!!!......

I added that as an incentive for republicans. Apparently, they're really into raising the gas tax right now so they should love this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/trump-r ... s-tax.html

Because a nuanced issue requires a nuanced response; unfortunately, the audience has the attention span of a 3-year old, so the GOP comes off sounding like a bunch of boring policy wonks. Most people want 5-second sound bites and bumper-sticker slogans; they don't want to understand the nuances. It's not that the Republicans don't have a narrative, it's that no one wants to listen to it.

The product of state controlled indoctrination....er, i meant "education".

Right?

Now they're getting $20k per student per year.

Classroom of 30 pupils =$600,000

Teacher pay (they say) $50,000

$550,000 per classroom left per year. There are 2541 pupils in Curtis High this year.

2541 X~18,333= $46,584,999.9999 for three grades in one single school.

You'd think with all that money they could have any kind of security system installed with left over petty cash.

Wheres all the money going.?

I thought a good rough number was $10k/student per year. Even so, a lot of money. Where did you find $20k/year?
Also, if we're assuming middle to high school, the teacher cost would be x6.

Just finished a good book by Mark Levin (Plunder and Deceit) that had a whole chapter on education in the USA ... I guess I should do a book review.

Im stating to get the impression that they may be futile given the low amount of traffic to that thread. If no one really cares besides the four that have posted in there so far I am inclined to not waste my time. I like doing them, but not if no one gives a damn.

ETA: Yes, the last feeler I had has been wounded.