Hmmm...Perhaps kids serving on Student Council or with the Latin Club or marching in the band can sell their images to the local Rotary Club. Yeah, I know, far-fetched. Or is it?

Heard a radio interview yesterday in which the host claimed a high school coach told him that parents are already "pimping out" their kids to other schools, i.e., "What are you going to be able to do for me to get/keep my son."

This is toxic.

You could say that youth sports in general are toxic in 2022. Just saw a tweet where a woman umpiring 12u fast pitch got rocked in the eye by a disgruntled parent as she was walking to her car to leave.

Parents are wild these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-irkxy9zhUY

Correct, BTC. But will only be temporary.

That or until a parent gets the courts involved.

Are you referring to the same folks who believe: 1. we don't need fair elections maps (which 75% of Ohio voters approved in 2018)?; 2. the right to vote should be suppressed?; 3. the teaching of the history of race in our country should not be allowed? . . .

Edit: forgot to mention the same folks who believe all Ohioans have the right to conceal and carry without training or a permit. But they'll be sure to have the young school children in Texas in "their thoughts and prayers."

Yep! Same ones!

According to this and several other sources I’ve seen the issue was not federal gun law but state gun law:
https://abc13.com/texas-gun-laws-legally-purchase-weapons... /

The good guys with a gun argument ignores the reality that most self proclaimed "good guys" that proclaim "if I was here" cower when the bullets start flying. Easy to be brace on a range.

Gotta keep the guns out of some hands.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/state-gun-laws-that-redu... /

It's not possible to answer this question because gun laws are so lax in so many states that there's essentially no such thing as an illegal gun. In fact, with only a few exceptions (automatic weapons, sawed off shot guns, and a few others) the only thing that makes a gun illegal is the fact that it's been used in a crime or is owned by a felon.

Where illegal guns do exist in large numbers, they're only illegal because legislation made them so. A gun that's illegal in Chicago isn't when you cross the border into Indiana which places no restrictions on unlicensed sellers making private sales. That's why the vast majority of guns used in crimes in Chicago originate in Indiana. It's why the vast majority of guns used in crimes in New York and New Jersey originate in Virginia.

There's a common misconception that illegal guns are purchased through illegal sales. It's not the case. There are several states in which there's no such thing as an illegal gun, and no restrictions on private sales. There is a huge, huge gun trafficking business where people purchase legal guns in one state and then sell them to felons (who can't own weapons) in states like New York, New Jersey, Illinois, etc.

People bring this point up as if it indicates that even when guns are illegal, people still get them easily. But they only get them because there are too many places in the country where there's no such thing as a legal gun. Had this country had sensible, common sense federal laws that required licensure, tracing, and regulated secondary sales -- like with automobiles -- we wouldn't have created a situation where there are more guns than people in the United States and no feasible way to track or regulate them. It would also make it much harder for guns to get into the wrong hands.

The policies of one party made this particular bed. Americans are paying the price.

90% of Americans support this.