just one more step towards indoctrinating the young ones towards passivity. Punish all thoughts of violence with public humiliation, psych drugs, counseling, and possible jail terms.
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Originally Posted by hulk
Let's see what the court says about it.
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this is one of our major problems today. we look to black robed tyrants to tell us what we have as rights and what we can and cannot do.
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Originally Posted by manic
I'd be willing enough to agree that any situation in which a student threatens the safety of anyone - especially in exceptionally tragic ways like we've witnessed in Columbine and the VT shootings - they should be pulled from society until a proper psychological examination and threat assessment is done and they are determined to be fit for normal schooling.
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should we have a federal agency established to produce a new social contract on what is and what isn't 'normal' societal behavior? would that make everyone feel safe?
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Originally Posted by analog
If jail was the punishment for all people with a severe lack of tact and common sense, the jails would be tenfold more full than they are now. Someone should slap him for being such a tactless moron as to write THAT just a week or two after the VA Tech thing. I mean come on... he needs to grow a brain.
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I realize that not everyone has common sense, or at least enough of it, but do we suspend the first amendment for 2 weeks after a VT tragedy? If so, how long should we suspend other rights in the face of things like 9/11?
Bottom line folks is how much further does society want to walk down the path of making government make our society safer by forcing limits on our behavior and conduct? Limits that will not work anyway.