I'm so sick of reading about what gender/sex programmers and engineers are. Color blindness is the key to ending racism, and highlighting the gender/sex of people in this field is doing anything but helping end sexism.

So that's why characters kept dying in Game of Thrones...

I'm only speculating, but I'd guess that people think that it would upset the current ecosystem.

Maybe "unethical" is the wrong word...again, only speculating

Hiring school security is exactly what I was proposing.

So the idea is dead because schools can't fit "Protecting our children from being dead." in the budget?

I think this conversation is dead.

I can respond to a, b and c with the same comment. Do not give them to random people. No one mentioned anything about random or untrained people.

Guns are currently in this world. Some people do terrible things with them. If the solution to protect children is to bring in an armed good guy, the armed good guy can be on premises at all times.

I wish I had mod points to mod you up. I don't understand how this solution isn't obvious. In short, the problem is that the only person with a gun is the bad guy. EVERYONE'S solution is to call in good guys with guns (cops). This article admits that a step in the right direction is to get good guys with guns to the scene faster. WHY NOT HAVE THEM ON SCHOOL GROUNDS AT ALL TIMES!?!?! It seems painfully obvious.

Because they're generally better?

Another is that he's just moving on with his life...

Maybe I'm too late commenting and this isn't going to get any attention, but I was under the impression through reading articles about the situation that wildfires worsening in California is mainly due to the fact that we suppress what would ordinarily be small routine burns that need to happen to keep forests healthy. By suppressing these, the buildup of undergrowth makes the ones we can't control much worse.

I'm not saying global warming couldn't be one of the factors contributing to worsening conditions, but I don't think it can shoulder the lion's share of the blame.

That makes good sense. This is one of those things that you don't know, you didn't know it until someone tells you about it. :)

TIL CTRL+INS, SHIFT+INS works the same way as CTRL+C, CTRL+V. Who knew!

Pedantic. If you pretend to not know what "West Coast" means in the US people are going to think you're a moron.