When you want to know why, you are told it is because they are afraid of being sued for doing their job. That’s right – they don’t do their job because they are afraid of being sued, so you have to sue them. This is what passes for logic in the US these days.

Then they turn around and claim we need tort reform because they keep getting sued.

Malpractice insurance is very high. The claim is that we have to have tort reform to prevent people from suing for malpractice, rather than, we need to police doctors to reduce the incidence of malpractice. [BTW, the reason malpractice insurance is so high is because the insurance companies have lost a bundle in the stock market, and have nothing to do with the number of malpractice lawsuits.]

The country has gone insane.

Bingo!

No one has any common sense either.

When I went to school down here, every boy had a pocket knife, but that is illegal now. I’m not sure if they still have drafting/mechanical drawing in school anymore, but there were enough “weapons” in a drafting kit that they have probably been banned. No one has “judgment” anymore, so everything is “zero tolerance”.

My father, in his role as a middle school counselor, once disarmed a severely disturbed student who concealed a gun in her coat, intending to kill the principal. Dad recognized the image of the gun under the coat. In those days, possibly 40 years ago, the incident was thought unusual. Today? I wonder.

It is a sad commentary on our society that teachers, counselors and administrators in schools need self-defense skills.

And no one… no one… other than a police officer should be permitted to carry a gun into a school. I don’t remember reading of any constitutionally protected Right to Arm Students. They’re kids; they’re not fully responsible… and they have access to guns at home. That’s a recipe for disaster.

She reminds people when their rent is due, and to take their meds.

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