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Have to disagree with your analogy. That is way, way different than them purchasing a gun for someone who folks were concerned would go on a killing spree.

Biden is a such a loser.

I just thought about something else and admittedly, it’s apples and oranges as compared to this case, however, when we’re driving and an accident occurs and if we do not stop and render aid to another driver that can be and often is a felony offense, in Texas. The parents failed to stop and render aid first to their son in ignoring his mental issues. Then you could possibly get the parents for manslaughter for increasing the potential for the son to get a firearm, while knowing he was nuts and they had been made aware he had thoughts of murdering other kids. I am all for everyone being held accountable for their actions. In my opinion, the son needs to be sentenced to death and the parents definitely need to be punished for their actions and inactions. Common sense.

This is a terrible situation. We all have to be responsible for our own actions and one day we all will answer to God for our lives all by our lonesome, no help from mom and dad. As a parent, you do have a huge influence over your children, but they make their own decisions and take their own actions. The kid should be held accountable for these killings. NOW, I do believe the parents made extremely negligible decisions and took very poor actions in making available a firearm to their kid who’d made it clear he had the propensity to kill. They probably knew deep down he may hurt someone or multiple people and / or himself and did nothing. This is a very unique case and I actually have no problem with also punishing the parents in this particular case due to their inaction; they did nothing to prevent this tragedy when they very likely knew something was going to happen. Ultimately, sentencing each parent to ten years in prison for something someone else did (even if they should’ve taken some sort of action to help prevent this) is way overboard. What their punishment should be, I’m not too sure, but prison time is way too harsh. Maybe ban them from owning guns, because they don’t know how to responsibly and safely possess firearms since they let mentally struggling individuals have access to them.. You could also fine them and utilize the money for charity for families who’ve lost loved ones to school shootings AND force them to go speak with the parents of the other children who lost their lives due to the actions of their son. I believe we all must be responsible for our actions AND inaction when we know better, while also remembering the parents didn’t pull the trigger. Super tough situation, great thing to debate. If I were the father I would be ashamed of my son and myself.

Raising the minimum wage is only ever going to raise the costs of the goods being sold, that’s it. Quit trying to raise minimum wage. Kids and very young adults are meant to work at jobs that pay minimum wage not people like you and I. Minimum wage paying jobs are meant to be stepping stone positions. Please quit acting like everyone works minimum wage jobs and the man is holding everyone down. Corporations are meant to make money and when you force them to pay their minimum wage employees a higher minimum wage you and I (AND THE MINIMUM WAGE EARNERS) are going to pay more for the products, period. Why Democrats can’t see it as an endless cycle they can’t control is beyond me.

Thanks for posting those links, Blah Blah. I did read them and that second link from The Hill was actually just a report on findings that Americans’ opinion that greedflation has increased. There was no evidence of it just that Americans feel it is happening more now. The focus of any for-profit business is to increase profits, but you can price yourself out of sales. It is absolutely impossible to get everyone within any market all onboard to collectively raise prices of their goods/services to keep a greedflation scenario intact for a long period of time. It may be able to sustain for just a little while, but when a new company in a market enters and they have no customer base and they’re trying to compete against longstanding providers within their market the VERY FIRST thing they’re going to do is offer lower and often much lower pricing. It happens all the time, which then gets those mainstream manufacturers or service providers to reduce their costs some of even dramatically so they don’t lose some of their customers and market share. one of our largest and best manufacturers we represent like to tell us to “Protect the Brand”. Protect the brand is a multifaceted approach with the overall goal of retaining market share. To retain market share for this giant within our industry, we work with our loyal customers to gain visibility into where our competitors and often upstart competitors are gaining traction and outperforming us in lead time and costs. Retaining share isn’t just about who has the lowest prices, but that is a component of it. There will always be a company or individual out there who is willing to undercut in costs in order to gain new customers, which keeps the big guys in check. The big companies may not have the lowest prices, but they still have to be competitive enough not to lose too much market share.

@BarryLaverty, one sentence stated this may be the end of capitalism. I’d like to address that by saying I believe that is 100% inaccurate. In all markets there will always be a company or individual who is willing and able to gain business by offering a lower cost than their competitors, which keeps costs from getting out of control. Greedflation, I think there may have been some of that during and shortly after covid. Our manufacturers made price increase announcements during and shortly after covid, and I think some of that was a lot of put on and greed. However, currently trying to keep Biden from accountability for inflation by blaming corporations for rising costs is big time reaching. See, greed works in the other way too. You can be greedy and offer lower costs to customers in sheer volume. The manufacturers we represent have been asking us for pricing feedback again versus our competition for several years now. Greedflation, nay, does not hold water.

@BarryLaverty, always twisting his words equals no one believes your Dems’ or their lapdog media’s lies about his comments. The bloodbath comment was obviously about something completely different and the media and Dems try to claim it’s something else. Just completely ignorant, much like the laws Dems pushed that allow for squatters to move into a home, while the family goes on vacation. Then the family returns and the cops are not allowed to remove them; those are the stupid policies of your Democrats. The policies of your Democrats have also allowed our southern border to be overrun and for some incomprehensible reason you Democrats actually like it and then the D media (MSNBC this time) blamed it all on Trump, literally said it is Trump’s fault. I mean, how flipping dumb do you have to be to believe their lies. Trump wanted to build rhe wall and defend our border for years. Dems fought him tooth and nail claiming shutting down the border was inhumane and other nonsense, then the idiots turn around and say the chaos at the border is Trump’s fault, unbelievable. So over it.

Should’ve been playing linebacker at that size.

Hahaha! It definitely flew over his head.

Dang.

Oh my!

I understand, change is a tough thing to wrap your mind around. If I were y’all I would still run a similar offense, but hire a coach who actually uses the forward pass somewhat regularly so it’s not almost totally foreign to the players.

You want to purposely reduce your coach search down to one man or only a Joaquin alum? In my opinion, that’s not the wisest choice JISD can make in this situation. A coach does not have to have graduated from Joaquin in order to understand how important J football is to that community. Do you want someone from within so you can keep the / a run heavy offense intact?