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"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.
Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.
http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"
This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.
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(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday August 31 2014, @09:21PM
I just think the summary is part of the relevant discussion, so if it's off-topic borderline-insane ranting, then discussion of that is fair game as well. Otherwise there'd be no point in allowing a summary at all. I elaborate on that in my reply to janrinok, so no point repeating it all here.
Same. I have no desire to own one, but I have no problem with others wishing to, or enjoying their use, and support keeping firearms legal because the tool isn't the problem, it's how a minority of people use them.
It's the same logic as the "I don't agree what you say but I'll defend your right to say it" idea, which I also adhere to, and is relevant to the story itself: even if someone disagrees with the subject matter of the book, they should be able to accept its existence and let it go. Books should not be criminal, because down that road is thought crime. Next up we'll have people incarcerated because Big Data knows you bought candy off Amazon and you looked up where day cares in your town are. The algorithms decided that means the person's a potential pedo, so better toss them in a prison just in case.
Precisely. A firearm is a tool, just like any number of other tools. Chainsaws are dangerous but as far as I know not illegal to own, as well as knives. You can create malware with a compiler, but that doesn't mean compilers should be banned. Some people argue that firearms are different because their primary purpose is offensive in nature, but that's not a feature unique to guns. If you're going that route, you'll have to start outlawing chemistry, too, but I don't see anybody arguing for that.
Better to bust the people that do the horrible things and restrict their future access to the tools based on prior misbehaviour. There's some inherent risk involved, but it's less dangerous than stripping freedom from everybody, piece by piece, because "it's for your own good, we promise", in my opinion.