I appreciate what you just said here and I also made a promise to Andrea and Dan that I would be nice. And as usual your response was considerate and well thought out.

You are correct that we need to figure out some way to work to together and I also appreciate that Dan (and you and everybody else) allows me to speak and I don't mind if you get angry with me at times. You are a well spoken individual with a way of thinking that isn't exactly like mine but I, like you wish we could come to an agreement. I know that no matter what I say to you though that nothing will ever change your mind. Ans as such everything I say will be met with arguments that make no sense to me and vice versa. But I think that as the last apparent muskateer that I should at least try.

First let us make this agreement though. Your and my president is Donald Trump and undermining our President offends me. I wasn'nt a fan of Obama but I didn't deride him anywhere during his 8 years in office and so I'd appreciate if you don't do that with Trump or anybody else in office right now. It is not productive, just as me trying to be funny offends you. I won't do that anymore either.

Now onto your points. Let's start with teachers. I am personally of the opionion that it is entirely a teacher's choice whether they want to be armed or not. I agree with you that in the US teachers are woefully underpaid and have a huge load as it is. You and I (our our teachers) ever even had think about these things though when we were young and in school. I've owned guns since I was young (was also trained by NRA before I was allowed to own one as a hunter when I was 10) and in a lot of schools it was no big deal that we had rifles ready to hunt after school in our cars in high school. Nobody then would have ever even thought once about shooting up the school. But doesn't that beg a new question?

What changed? Well, I posit that a lot has changed. The whole world has changed. We have angry people all over the place that were not raised right to begin with now. Let's agree on that. Everywhere we go now we have to have armed security. It didn't used to be that way. Just go to the airport for example, or a museum, even my own emplyers events are littered with armed guards. there are armed people everywhere to protect us. It didn't used to be a thing you worried about but it is now. Why?

I wish you wouldn't accuse me of not caring about those kids from the Parkland shootings because nothing could be further from the truth and that is unfair. I also realize that this post of mine is getting long and I would like to keep this conversation going and will do so if you stay engaged.

And so the next post will about those kids and how I feel that they really don't know about their own rights and their basic constitutional rights. I blame that on their parents first and foremost but also teachers need to teach them to protect themselves and that also includes their right to free speech. But why is nobody teaching them the truth?

But again, I appreciate your response and I hope you'll have patience with me as I try to help everybody here understand why much of what you think you want to do is misguided. This will take a while I fear. But I'll stay and talk if you'll continue to let me and I'll try to be nice.