School Bans Backpacks

With expected results...

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-fears-school-ban-backpacks-students-improvise-1633820

I think the school administrators need to be banned, next...

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Stopmakingsense · 61-69, F

Guns need to be banned, obviously-. Unless you prefer to keep the gun harm.
When I told my parents a backpack was required in third grade they called me a liar, of course. When I told the teacher I didn't get help at home with homework and didn't have a backpack she called me a liar, of course.
I decided to become a liar and never do any homework again. I lied about why every day-. Until my dad found out and boy was I in trouble. Our family had to give up TV for a year. I was the reason for a whole year.

mikeylyksit · 41-45, M

@Stopmakingsense It's not that simple. A gun ban would LITERALLY back-fire. Criminals don't respect the law, and they don't respect gun bans. You want to send us back to the wild wild west, all you got to do is ban guns....

And overnight, gun violence would increase about ten-fold...

Stopmakingsense · 61-69, F

@mikeylyksit government cash has a way of cleaning up the neighborhood and rounding up all the guns and ammo.

mikeylyksit · 41-45, M

@Stopmakingsense I think you need to study U.S. history a little better. Our fore-fathers planned for ....for just such an emergency...

Stopmakingsense · 61-69, F

@mikeylyksit bull. History isn't really just about what certain people intended. History includes the experience of getting rid of guns and becoming safer that other countries such as Australia went through. Cash for guns would help our communities.

mikeylyksit · 41-45, M

@Stopmakingsense That's a really strong opinion, motherhubbard. And I won't disagree with you. I will simply state that there are other opinions firmly footed in history that would win the day over your valid opinion.

mikeylyksit · 41-45, M

@Stopmakingsense Man, that sucks. I mean, that you lost TV for a whole year. YEs, what you did was bad. However, there was a good reason for your bad behavior. You weren't getting the support you needed either from your parents or your teacher. The way you handled it was wrong. But you shouldn't have been in that situation to begin with. So faulting you for dealing with it in an immature manner was wrong. You were a child, expressing frustration in a childish way. But you had reason to be frustrated, and that is the point that all the adults missed...

My son was caught cheating on an English assignment. Yes, I was disappointed and YES, we had a conversation that was not pleasant for either one of us. But I knew it wasn't like him, so I had to figure out why. Turns out, he just needed a little extra help keeping up with the other kids in English. I got him the help he needed. He excelled in school after that...

Or I could have taken away his computer for a year. But that wouldn't have solved the problem.