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1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 18:59:30 EST kaniini

   oh great the Democrats are spamming me again with messages about getting rid of all guns instead of actually solving school violence
   https://mastodon.dereferenced.org/media/Hc1dCATDeun6Y6z4HgU

   1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 19:00:44 EST kaniini

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      as a reminder, all of the gun control in the world won't solve the fact that you can look up how to make a pipe bomb online

      1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 19:02:04 EST kaniini

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         as such, the solution to solving school violence is to actually solve school violence

         1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 19:13:49 EST kaniini

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            this unfortunately is a much harder problem to solve, because it requires many things:

            1) increasing funding to schools and universal healthcare

            2) using some of said funding to provide mental health support services

            3) conflict de-escalation training for all staff

            4) doing a 180 on these zero-tolerance policies and giving kids criminal records etc. (all this does is remove trust in school staff to help with their problems)

            if problems are found and mitigated early, then school violence will, for the most part, solve itself.

            1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 19:16:17 EST kaniini

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               in other words, i am tired of hearing the typical liberal line about gun control

               i want to hear actual proposals about reducing school violence

               common-sense gun control measures are a tangential issue

               i do support some forms of gun control, but do not support school violence being used as a catalyst for pushing gun control because it will not solve school violence

               1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 19:18:17 EST kaniini

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                  when somebody pushes gun control as the solution to school violence, ask them how gun control will stop the student from making a pipe bomb and bringing it to school instead

                  1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 19:20:57 EST kaniini

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                     "oh we will make pipe bombs illegal"

                     they're already illegal

                     will "pipe bomb control" solve school violence?

                     what solves school violence is to sit down and actually understand the problem, only then can actual solutions be made

                     but politicians of all kinds rather use tragic events to push marginally-related policy instead

                     1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 19:26:20 EST kaniini

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                        what will solve school violence is fundamentally shifting education to counteract the toxicity of WASP culture

                        as i have said before: education needs to be about challenging beliefs, teaching empathy and compassion, teaching responsibility for one's place in the world and finally teaching respect for one's peers

                        various primary education formats already exist that do this, look at the immersive native schools, waldorf schools, etc.

                        school violence does not exist in those places

                        seriously: if there is ever a school shooting at a native school or a waldorf school, i will eat a hat

                        1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2018 19:34:07 EST kaniini

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                           the fundamental takeaway here is that if we make schools actually a pleasant place to be with a well-rounded, academic and empathetic education, then those schools will for the most part, not have bullying or any other precursor to school violence