It sounds like you are a Boomer. It also sounds like you are not familiar with current conditions in schools, or with the mental health conditions that are affecting many of our youth. It sounds like you also don't understand that the rifles you might have had access to back in the 50's or 60's or whenever are not the semi-automatic handguns or AR-style rifles that are causing so much carnage now.

Stop perpetuating the Historian's Fallacy and learn more about the actual issues and conditions affecting people now before taking up informed people's time online.

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Writing on the Wall
Writing on the Wall

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Suzie Null is a former middle and high school teacher and former Professor of Teacher Education. Follow her on Twitter at WritingontheWall @NullSet16

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