Comments by "B Bodziak" (@B_Bodziak) on "Cuomo: America is living in a twilight zone | CUOMO" video.

  1. Making teachers carry guns is the most ridiculous "solution" I've heard by the GOP. Remember the kindergarten teacher who was shot in the Virginia school -- Do they expect her or any teacher to aim and fire at a 6 year old?? The Louisville bank had a "good guy with a gun" inside, but he wasn't able to stop the shooter. In fact, he was shot and he died.
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  2. I think you're to the country's leaders, atp. You are not alone in your frustrations and your sadness. Both sides of the aisle have to first agree to actually negotiate, and both sides must come to the table WILLING to compromise because taking away all guns is not a viable solution and doing nothing is also not a viable solution. Over 80% of gun owners and an even higher percentage of people who don't own guns agree that someone with a history of violence shouldn't own a gun. So, can we at least require "Violent History Checks" before buying a gun? A bill with nothing else in it other than requiring people to pass a violent history check before a gun purchase would probably pass in Congress. The problem is that Democrats won't propose just a single item like that because they fear if the GOP agrees to pass it, then the GOP won't be willing to discuss additional legislation on gun control. That causes Democrats to propose additional gun control laws that they already know the GOP won't agree to do. BOTH sides must be willing to compromise. Some of the solutions I've heard from politicians are downright disturbing. Making teachers carry guns is the most ridiculous "solution" I've heard. Remember the kindergarten teacher who was shot in the Virginia school -- Do they expect her or any other kindergarten teacher to aim and shoot a 6 year old?? I live in a large metropolitan area and at least twice a month, if not twice a week, there's a news story about a teacher being arrested for doing something. I'm not hating on teachers. I used to be one. Just last week a middle school teacher was arrested at his school for drinking in the classroom. He had a soda bottle filled with whiskey and his blood alcohol was twice the legal limit. That's the second time in 3 months that a teacher was arrested for drinking on campus. Last month, a middle school teacher was arrested for placing a hidden video recorder in one of the student restrooms. I remember 3 being arrested as part of a sting operation regarding child pornography. One politician thinks it's a good idea to require all teachers to carry guns on campus, but I sure don't. Another solution was to require schools to have only one door going in/out. I don't know what he thinks that's going to accomplish, but let's hope there are no fires in the science lab. Then, there's the solution of having an armed officer roaming the halls in every school. Well, the Louisville bank had a "good guy with a gun" posted inside, but that good-guy police officer wasn't able to stop the shooter. In fact, he was shot and killed by the shooter. Data shows that mass shootings nose-dived shortly after the 1994 bill that banned new purchases of assault rifles. Shortly after the ban was lifted, mass shootings, esp in schools, shot up again. There were over 650 mass shootings in the US just last year. We now have people who have experienced more than one mass shooting. The leading cause of child death in the United States is guns. It's difficult to wrap my brain around the fact that more children are killed by guns than die in auto accidents. I don't know what the viable solutions are, but I do know "doing nothing" isn't working.
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  3. It's difficult to have any solutions when one side has continuously refused to compromise from their position at all. Both sides, first, have to be WILLING to negotiate and WILLING to actually compromise before workable solutions can even be discussed. We already have hard data that shows the number of mass shootings nose-dived shortly after the ban on assault rifles was put in place and number of mass shootings skyrocketed shortly after the ban was lifted. There's actual evidence to support the statement that banning assault rifles will slash the number of mass shootings, esp in schools. Approximately, 69% of current gun owners support reinstating the assault weapons ban. Over 80% of current gun owners support a "Violent History check" requirement before purchasing a firearm. That's two things that the overwhelming majority of Americans already support. So, why can't Congress pass them as a start? It's not because of their constituents. It's because the NRA keeps their pockets filled. As voters, we are no longer the constituents of our country's political leaders. Corporations have become our leaders' constituents. Corporate donors have controlled a lot of legislation (or the absence of it) for a century, but Citizens United kicked it into high gear. Every time there's a news story posted online about another mass shooting, maybe people should repeatedly post a list of politicians who've accepted NRA money and how much. Perhaps, voters who are tired and sad and angry from mass shooting overload will see one of their senators accepted $1.4 million last year from the NRA and will re-evaluate who they'll support on the next ballot. If it wasn't for NRA money in the pockets of politicians, we wouldn't be the world champ of mass shootings and the #1 cause of child deaths wouldn't be guns.
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  4. Before anything can be done, both sides have to sit down to negotiate and be WILLING to compromise. If one or both sides aren't willing to budge from their position, nothing will change and the problem is going to get worse. Pretty soon, companies are going to need to grant employees paid "mass shooting days" to attend funerals because it won't be long before everyone has a friend or family member that was killed in a mass shooting. People HAVE to be willing to compromise.
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  5. COVID was worldwide and many countries had much stricter lock-downs. Why is this happening only in the US? After the 1994 ban on assault rifles was put in place, mass shootings nose-dived. As soon as the ban was lifted, mass shootings skyrocketed -- more than doubled in a short amount of time.
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  6.  @hmq9052  That's right.
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  7.  @detector2guns  I like him, too, but after watching News Nation, I no longer care for Dan Abrams as much as I once did.
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  8. We had 647 mass shootings last year and we're at 146 this year. They've become so commonplace that unless it's a school, most mass shootings only make the local news. So, these shootings that make national headlines are a very small percentage of the actual number. We have an average of two mass shootings per day. Most countries don't have 2 a year -- we have 2 each day.
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  9. #1: 400 million guns .... 330 million people USA #2: 70 million guns.....1.4 billion people India
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  10. STOP calling them "Red Flag Laws" and start small. Call them "Violent History Checks" -- that is one thing nearly all of us agree on and politicians will have a difficult time arguing against it. Some of the "solutions" I've heard are crazy. Making teachers carry guns is the most ridiculous one I've heard by the GOP. Remember the kindergarten teacher who was shot in the Virginia school -- Do they expect her or any teacher to aim and fire at a 6 year old?? The Louisville bank had a "good guy with a gun" inside, but he wasn't able to stop the shooter. In fact, he was shot and he died.
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  11. Both sides of the aisle have agree to negotiate and be WILLING to compromise before anyone even thinks about possible solutions. If our political system didn't allow corporate donors, things would have never gotten to this point. Whoever has the most money makes the rules. Citizens United is a ruling that needs to be re-evaluated, esp since it was a 5-4 decision and one of those 5 have just been exposed as directly benefitting from that ruling to the tune of a million-plus dollars every year for decades
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  12.  @jluther1755  You're attempting to call him out and negate everything he said because he said "cartridge" instead of "magazine"? Wow. Thanks for making it a bit more clear on where part of the problem lays.
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  13. Please don't start with that tired wornout "guns don't kill people, people kill people" line. Cars don't kill people, it's the driver's driving them, but we still put parameters and safety measures in place to lower the risk of fatalities in car accidents. One political party is claiming it's all mental health, but that same party recently refused to pass legislation to fund mental health programs. I can't wrap my brain around why those same politicians won't even agree to making a "Violent History Check" a requirement to purchase a gun. More than 80% of current gun owners are in favor of it, but those politicians still won't agree to it. I'm sure most politicians would actually like to have stricter gun control laws but they like the NRA dollars more.
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  14.  @citacita7889  Like any metropolitan city, Chicago has safe areas and not so safe areas. I loved living downtown in my 20s and now my daughter just bought her first home in Chicago. I don't worry about her being in Chicago any more than I worry about my other daughter who doesn't live there. The three largest cities in Ohio have higher murder rates per capita than Chicago or New York City.
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