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Excellent toon, Clay. Did Rat bring enough pizza for everyone?
The faux outrage of the NRA is so very telling. It’s too soon to talk about the causes of gun violence, whether they are drugs or transgenderism. Video games. Bullying. The pandemic. Cell phones. It’s certainly not the availability of guns, nor of ammunition. I see in today’s paper that the male parent of the 14 year-old transgressor and has been charged with several felonies. Perhaps they could charge the leadership of the NRA, as well. And the gun manufacturer. Come on, guys, lets set some precedent!
Listening to Alejandro Escovedo.
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I have to admit I have mixed feelings about the theme behind this cartoon. Don’t get me wrong, I like it but I have conflicting stances with both students having phones in class and with the NRA.
The Senate Bill 700 that recently became law here in Pennsylvania was introduced by State Sen. Ryan Aument (R-36) which limits use of cellphones by students in school buildings due to considerable evidence of low academic performance, increased cyberbullying, and growing levels of mental and emotional health problems in youths. Yet, parents are insisting that their kids have their phones with them at all times so they can be easily reached in case of emergencies though I hope the first number any parent calls for emergencies is 911. Because I work in classrooms, I have personally witnessed students constantly using their cellphones for texting, playing games, browsing social media, and watching movies rather than focusing on their expectations all while draining their batteries. The excuses for being on their phones are unbelievably lame, as well, with claims that they are doing homework and/or listening to music despite having school-provided laptops with internet access to their Spotify accounts, or they need to take photos of their work when their school-provided laptops have cameras, too.
A simple and very affordable suggestion to these dilemmas is to give students their own old-fashioned flip phones so they can still stay connected to their parents and to the internet while cutting down on all the nonsense that keeps taking their attention away from the world around them. I looked online and found that these phones cost around $30 and charge around $20/month for service.
Students and parents also insist that they want to stay in touch should an intruder get into the school building yet the state mandated among the necessary procedures for such an event include being absolutely silent so as to not draw the intruder’s attention, especially if the intruder is armed. Drills for these procedures are required to be practiced every month and playing with brightly-lit phones does little to protect anyone from an intruder. Besides, school faculty members have phones to call 911, too. This leads me to my next point…
The NRA needs to shut the f**k up. No, seriously, they need to shut up with the fake outrage towards phones and their constant, decades-long whining of the victimhood for unchecked wholesale of firearms. They have done nothing to limit the selling of guns to anyone without proper background checks, and thwart any attempts by the people towards responsible distribution of such deadly weapons. Most of the nation wants background checks, and every public shooting only emphasizes the need for it. These are the same as***les who want to tell us what books children read, what history and science should be taught in schools, and what women should be doing with their bodies but firearm ownership and distribution get carte blanche. That’s ridiculous, unacceptable, and un-American. Highest rate of gun deaths in the world but drag queens reading stories to children is what’s ruining our country? Disgraceful.
On a side note, isn’t it interesting that it’s Republicans who are pushing all of this nonsense going on with phones and guns in people’s lives? What happened to them being for small government?
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