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President Biden and Vice President Harris Announce Additional Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Save Lives.

www.whitehouse.gov FACT SHEET: President Biden and Vice President Harris Announce Additional Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Save Lives | The White House

New Executive Order Directs Federal Agencies to Combat Emerging Firearms Threats andImprove School-Based Active Shooter Drills Today, President Biden and

FACT SHEET: President Biden and Vice President Harris Announce Additional Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Save Lives | The White House

The 19th: Active shooter drills can have traumatizing effects. A new Biden rule aims to improve them.

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Here I'll fix our problem
Pay teachers more
Build more schools to reduce class sizes
Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day
Single payer healthcare
Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don't turn to suicide
Improve safety nets
End the war on drugs
End for profit prison system
End qualified immunity
Hey look gun violence has dropped like a hot rock...
But no please keep doing the same shit and spend political capital on shit a very large portion of the usa doesn't want.
- While I agree with you, any politician with an R beside their name is going to actively obstruct everything you just listed.
  So then it becomes what takes more political capital, one thing they'll fight tooth and nail or ten?
  
  If the dems had a spine they'd use their antigun capital on getting single payer passed. It would probably cut gun deaths in half alone.
- Just an FYI, you gotta add a blank line between each item if you want them to display like a list and not a giant run-on sentence. Assuming it's like reddit, you should be able to do bullet points with an asterix and a space before each item on the list if you're into that.
  Would make your comment much more readable
  
  Yea I wrote that in the AM without my brain having been fully awake lol fixed the formating cause that was a hot mess to read.
- Turns out that some random Lemmy poster actually has better answers than both of the major political parties.
- Pay people more. Make it really fucking hard to be a billionaire anywhere in the world.
  
  hard to be a billionaire
  You're gonna need to tax people's income for real. Comically that's the one thing from the 1950s USA they don't wanna MAGA. They want the racism, the sexism, the authoritarianism, the mcCarthyism .. but not the taxation that built roads.
- I'm voting for this guy in November.
- Pay teachers more
  Build more schools to reduce class sizes
  Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day
  Single payer healthcare
  Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don’t turn to suicide
  Improve safety nets
  End the war on drugs
  End for profit prison system
  End qualified immunity
  Civilized countries only have most of those and don't have the gun problem. It seems like you can get by with just a smart subset of this as a base.
  
  Even just single payer would drastically help our citizens health
- Ending the war on drugs doesn't. I disagree
  Sorry. It's the exact opposite. Here in Australia we have a serious meth problem and we are full of assholes who are incredibly toxic and drugged up. Ending the war on drugs just makes addictive drugs even more accessible, so people are more likely to try them and encourage others to do so
  Highly addictive drugs should not be legalized, and it certainly isn't the reason for school shootings and such
  What protects us is gun laws, and you guys need stronger ones
  
  The war on drugs is a euphemism. Ending It doesn't mean stop drug legislation, it means stop putting parents in jail for 10 years and putting their kids in care because they smoked weed and the kid accidentally told a cop when the cop visited their school and told them if they didn't rat out their parents something worse would happen.
- Or do all that and ban private gun ownership. Yes amendments can be changed or removed.

Republicans: “How can we sabotage this and also make the overall situation much worse?”
- Quick, mail everyone a free glok for being a valued customer of the military industrial complex. Bullets/file not included, for safety.

Summary: Previously Biden/Harris threw money at law enforcement. But, now they're wanting more active shooter drills in schools and to throw money at virtue signaling through a task force focused on 3D printing.
Editorial: They'll do anything but take from corporations to provide hope for the children's future.
Edit: Most of you are idiots. Someone upvoted. Despite this being very anti-Biden/Harris, all of you follow and no one engages meaningfully. This breaks the dominant false dichotomy of supporting whatever leadership chooses because, "It's not Trump". Consistency would deserve more respect than mindless agreement.
- Yesterday my 5 year old came home from Kindergarten and when asked about his day he said "We did a drill where we hid in our room because someone might come in and kill us".
  This is the world we live in now.
  
  Decades ago they were hiding under desks fearing nuclear bombs. To a 5 year old, why's it any different?
  Before that some groups were assaulted for attempting to go to school. Before that there was hardly any school and instead kids worked jobs.
  So this is the world we live in now? What does that really mean? It implies things are worse. They're not worse. Just different.
  
  "Someone": another young person who correctly perceives no hope for a life of dignity.
- They want research done on the cost / benefits of active shooter drills, and how they can be improved. Nowhere in this does it say "Let's do more of these drills."
  The gun stuff isn't just about 3d printing but all emerging technologies that can be used to produce illegal firearms. They are again trying to gather information on what can be done about it.
  There are also a bunch of suggestions like lock up your guns and funding for counseling and red flag laws.
  I would also like to point out that one of Harris's policies is to raise the corporate tax rate, but that's not what this executive order is about.
  
  Alternatively, we could at least provide a vision of a future decent enough that children couldn't perceive the shallow lies. But, neolibs gonna' neolib. And, you're drinking the Kool Aid even children reject.
- Working dead-end jobs for those corporations is the children's future and they don't want to change that.
- Aww dangit

Everything but banning guns lol.

Why would I ever take these genocidal creeps seriously? Are they going to disarm the cops and dismantle the MIC? Because that's the root of the violence.

In Palestine right?

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