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Chemist45 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:14 pm https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/10/13 ... ad-n584734

Rafe wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:20 am I mean, color me ignorant, but what exactly did you think the response from the IDF and Mossad would be if you broke through the border and slaughtered more than 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them unarmed civilians including women and children? That they'd invite back over for cookies and milk to talk about your feelings?

chasfm11 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:44 am

ajwakeboarder wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:17 pm My wife's a teacher. She has a student that isn't coming to school tomorrow because of "the war". Its a little bit concerning...

Normally, I scoff at the JTBS (Just to be safe) crowd. They are the ones who wear masks in a car when they are driving alone or recoil from the idea of being anywhere near a gun because it might accidentally go off. They are the ones who got every Covid shot, booster, hid in their homes and many of them have had more then three cases of Covid while I, who did none of that, have not been infected once. The human disease resistant systems are best when they are "exercised" by exposure to normal germs and viruses rather than when they are keep in sterile environments and the germ fighting cells atrophy.

But I have to say that the current school situation gives me pause. School administrations have shown a callus disregard for even minimal safety protocols. They put procedures in place which inconvenience normal people but have been demonstrated to be lax in overall enforcement. Add to that the several demonstrable failures in law enforcement units to address real situations in a timely way and the "bad guys" have been shown that if they are reasonably good at their attempts at mayhem, those attempts could be successful.

The additional appalling factor for me is the number and dispersion of sympathizers with those responsible for the atrocities in Israel. The sympathizers seem to be everywhere. They are clearly anti-Semitic. But it is deeper than that. They are also anti-Christian. And they take it to a fanatical level. As a result, I view our current environment as ripe for copy-cat/me too incidents. These nut cases would be the types to get their jollies from video taping their attack and sharing it online. And they are cowards so they will pick the weakest target that they can find. Too often, that is the schools.

I was listening to Dan Bongino on the radio yesterday. He was commenting about those who might be reluctant to go to a church or synagogue this weekend. He said that he was going because that is "who he is." I echo that. I'm not going to be driven away from living my life because of all of this any more than I was driven away by the Covid debacle. But I completely understand why a parent might not trust a school to keep their child safe. Personally, I have would home school my child rather than have that worry. But I'm more sympathetic to it now that I might have been a couple of years ago.