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If you think not being allowed to carry backpacks is an oppressive policy (and yeah, you may have a point there), think how it would feel like to watch news of

If you think not being allowed to carry backpacks is an oppressive policy (and yeah, you may have a point there), think how it would feel like to watch news of school shooting every month, and still having to go to school every day, while watching grown-ups blaming everything but the prevalence of guns to make it sound normal. Maybe the next generation of Americans would be finally fed up enough to do something with the gun culture.

c0m 3y ago
It's probably also the mental health [1], less intimacy with their peers (imo reflected in [2] teen sex plummeting), less face time with peers in general in part due to increased homework loads (if you went to school in the 90s, your kid is prob doing 2x the hw you did) [3] which is of dubious effectiveness anyway [4]. I'm not saying it's not the guns. But I am saying that the US is the only developed country with the problem on this scale and it's a probably a far deeper cultural issue than just access to weaponry. Forcing students to wear clear bags is ridiculous security theatre to the particular detriment of students with needs from (possibly undiagnosed) scoliosis etc. Thank God that there are no winter coats which could easily hide a pistol and several mags or a knife! All this policy achieves is scaring people. 1: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/american-teens-sadness-depression-anxiety/629524/ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/amer... 2: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/28/teenage-sex-declined-covid-19-pandemic/11755467002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/28/teenag... 3: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/02/20/the-way-u-s-teens-spend-their-time-is-changing-but-differences-between-boys-and-girls-persist/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/02/20/the-way-u... 4: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/homework-research-how-much/585889/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/homewo...
oicu812 3y ago
So if it is already illegal [1] for anyone under 18 years of age to possess a handgun in Michigan, what laws do you think the next generation are going to pass? [1] https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/firearms/statewide-handgun-regulations https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/firearm...

c0m 3y ago

It's probably also the mental health [1], less intimacy with their peers (imo reflected in [2] teen sex plummeting), less face time with peers in general in part due to increased homework loads (if you went to school in the 90s, your kid is prob doing 2x the hw you did) [3] which is of dubious effectiveness anyway [4]. I'm not saying it's not the guns. But I am saying that the US is the only developed country with the problem on this scale and it's a probably a far deeper cultural issue than just access to weaponry. Forcing students to wear clear bags is ridiculous security theatre to the particular detriment of students with needs from (possibly undiagnosed) scoliosis etc. Thank God that there are no winter coats which could easily hide a pistol and several mags or a knife! All this policy achieves is scaring people. 1: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/american-teens-sadness-depression-anxiety/629524/ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/amer... 2: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/28/teenage-sex-declined-covid-19-pandemic/11755467002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/28/teenag... 3: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/02/20/the-way-u-s-teens-spend-their-time-is-changing-but-differences-between-boys-and-girls-persist/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/02/20/the-way-u... 4: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/homework-research-how-much/585889/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/homewo...

oicu812 3y ago

So if it is already illegal [1] for anyone under 18 years of age to possess a handgun in Michigan, what laws do you think the next generation are going to pass? [1] https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/firearms/statewide-handgun-regulations https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/firearm...