Walking out on the taxpayer's dime for a symbolic gesture isn't helpful.

That's what weekends are for.

@1:

Many of those same taxpayers are the parents of children who are - both potentially and actually - being gunned down indiscriminately and in mass numbers, and as the step-parent of a couple of those kids I'm pretty sure NONE of us consider ANY gesture made with an aim to convincing TPTB to address this scourge as unhelpful.

@2: Tax revenue does not grow on trees.

@3: But the city council is unethical in giving its blessing to disrupt school operations. That's a very bad precedent. It doesn't matter what the cause or protest is.

The City Council should not be in the business of supporting or opposing this type of thing

Let's of course remember that this "support" is, literally, just words on paper - there's no material support, no guarantee against school-retaliation, etc. No *actual* support in any type of concrete way.

Let's consider what it is about our political system in which our elected officials feel the need to prioritize such literally meaningless gestures. What do you think they're trying to accomplish? Do you think Cm. Gonzalez feels the students need the support?

@9 if you wanna support Family Values, cool, that's a valid opinion.

But don't support a family mandate. If BLM activists are out there saying it's OK to be from a single-parent household, that's fine. That's their valid opinion. There's nothing sacrosanct about The Nuclear Family. It's fairly radical by historical standards. And I don't keep my ear as close to the BML ground as you apparently do, but I don't see them out there advocating for the destruction of families - fill me in, tho.

@5:

Tell that to the parents of the children murdered at Columbine High School, Red Lake High School, Virginia Tech, Oikos University, Sandy Hook Elementary, Marysville Pilchuck High School, Umqua Community College, Aztec (NM) High School, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, or any of the literally hundreds of schools, colleges, and univ… where innocent lives have been taken. Go tell the grieving parents, spouses, children, friends and loved ones of those thousands and thousands of victims that they need to 'grab some dry panties", and then get back to us with how long however many teeth are still in your slacked jaw remain there afterwards.

@12 Tell anything to anyone who's lost someone. There are other things, which we happily ignore, that kill massively more people than school shooters (we're in the midst of the deadliest streak on record, and it's 400 kids over 6 years - not quite lightning strike territory, but you're literally 10 times more likely to die falling out of your own bed).

If your desire is to see more lives saved, there's zillions of things to do. Unless your goal is something else altogether, but using a comparatively obscure form of death as your moral foundation to threaten other posters suggests your real goal is something else altogether.

@16 What you wanna do, force people together? What are you doing that any different from BLM in regard to solidity of black families?

Or are you saying that BLM activists are out there separating parents to achieve their stated ideological goal of a single parent society?

Actually, I'm being a little dishonest with myself here: Go murder yourself, bitch.