As usual, when a meme says “Let me get this straight” they, in fact, do not get it straight. This meme makes it appear like this is somehow a response to shootings like Uvalde, but it’s not. And the well meaning program goes back decades.
▪️The Texas Legislature passed this bill in Sept 2021, well before the Uvalde shooting. It provides DNA and fingerprinting kits to school districts to distribute to parents. The kits are totally optional, no parent is required to use them.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB02158F.pdf
▪️These kits from the Child ID Program were developed back in 1997, and more than 70 million have been distributed in North America. It began with kits given out at college and NFL football games, but has since expanded.
https://childidprogram.com/about-us/
▪️In fact, back in 1999 the Texas legislature passed a resolution supporting the program and outlined efforts offering every child in TX a kit. Other states as well as the US Congress have also passed resolutions praising the program.
https://journals.senate.texas.gov/sjrnl/76r/html/4-26.htm
▪️These kits are primarily used for missing children, although could be useful for other emergencies. The kid’s DNA isn’t sent to the government. Parents keep their child’s fingerprints/DNA at home in a secure envelope. If their child is ever missing, they then have it to give law enforcement.
▪️The whole thing is a non issue and seems to be a well meaning program unrelated to school shootings that somehow got turned into a political issue after media reports skewed its coverage and politicians like Gavin Newsome and Beto O’Rourke hyped it up.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
