General Discussion

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Reality: America is a gun culture. About 25% of America strongly disagrees with that. Around 50% either own one or none, but object to the right being impinged. AND about 25% own multiple guns (and we can assume where they stand).

Reality: America is becoming more Hispanic by the year. Simply requiring Spanish speakers to learn English does not address the real issue -- that English speaking European descendants dislike Hispanics having another language (that they don't understand) at all. They may be plotting an overthrow, you know (said facetiously).

If we choose to address reality, while we try to change it, then I propose that ALL children in U.S. schools be required to learn about gun safety, and also be required to learn Spanish. Spanish for obvious reasons of national and hemispheric cohesion, and guns so that they can understand the destructive potential involved with firearms and have some grasp of how thick a piece of concrete or wood needs to be to provide survivable cover, in a theater, a school, or a church/temple/synagogue, in the unlikely event that someone barges in with a gun.

This proposal gives something to the left AND the right by acknowledging that neither one is going away. In the bargain, the rising generation will become less xenophobic, and maybe 30 or 40 people a year will survive the toxic side-effects of having a gun culture, who otherwise might perish.