Guns in schools
Thank you to the Puna police for taking the necessary precautions in preventing any potential gun violence at Pahoa and Keaau high schools.
Your presence on school property Wednesday was appropriate, considering the threats of firearm violence that were posted on social media.
Students, teachers and other school personnel need to feel safe and secured.
Shootings at schools are evil and must be stopped. We need to have armed security at schools. This could be accomplished by having volunteers of retired police officers, ex-military personnel and also by training schoolteachers and other school employees to carry firearms.
We ask our Heavenly Father, Yahweh, to give us the proper motivation to take whatever suitable actions are necessary to protect our schoolchildren. Amen!
James G. Borden
Hilo
Regarding service animals
State Sen. Russell Ruderman recently introduced a bill that would impose fines on people who falsely present their pets as service animals, saying, “There are two kinds of animals we’re talking about. There are the (Americans with Disabilities Act) service animals. Then there are the so-called ‘comfort animals’ or ‘emotional support’ animals.”
This statement, Mr. Ruderman, is false.
Physical disability service animals and emotional disability service animals are service animals. Both require a prescription from a licensed health care professional. Both are under the protection of the ADA. By targeting “emotional support” animals, Ruderman belittles mental and behavioral health.
The senator is not just targeting people who falsely present their animals as service animals. He clearly is targeting people whom he thinks as if do not have a valid disability. It shames me that a Democratic senator from the Big Island could be so very blatantly bigoted toward those in his district who have mental health challenges.
According to the Office for Adolescent Health, 30 percent of Hawaii teens reported depression in 2015, with 11 percent with at least one suicide attempt.
The state Health Department reported in 2006 that 4 to 5 percent of all adults in the state have had an anxiety and depressive order, and 12.4 percent of the population has experienced either anxiety or depression.
Hawaii County (your county, senator) had higher rates than Honolulu. People who suffered most from anxiety and depression had health issues, were lower on the socioeconomic scale and had less access to health care.
There was a bit of good data in that report, though. It showed that adults who had “the emotional support they need” reported the least incidence of depression and anxiety.
You see, Mr. Ruderman, our state Health Department has found that “emotional support,” the very thing you ridiculed, is beneficial in alleviating the symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Valerie Balken
Pahoa
Let’s just hope, if ever needed, the cops go in and engage the shooter and end it versus what the deputy failed to do in Florida.
Having said that, don’t you find it kind of amazing that you cant get on a plane with a bottle of water but a lunatic with an AR15 can get into any school?
If we need to do anything – its to effectively treat schools as we do flying.
PS:
If we are to offer “thoughts and prayers” to whatever man made up “god” one desires, should we not be praying to that man made up “god” to NOT allow a nut job with an AR15 to kill 17 innocent people instead of praying to that man made up “god” to give us more guns and police in order to protect our school kids?
It is long overdue for common-sense gun laws
to encourage willing teachers
to get better gun control,
trained accuracy and situational conditioning,
concealed carry.
When seconds count, police are minutes away.
Meaningful self-defense is a human right.
Instead of calling “common sense” gun laws to be that of training and arming teachers (which we love to NOT pay what they are worth) but how about we inact common sense gun laws like:
1. Are you nuts? NO GUNS
2. Not old enough to buy a beer? NO GUNS
3. On no fly list? NO GUNS
4. Beat up your spouse? NO GUNS
“Common sense” needs to be just that – COMMON SENSE!
Homosexual? NO GUNS
Keep them out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Homosexuality has nothing to do with this issue whatsoever.
Unless of course you are a right wing religious $hit for brains idiot.
Ah, so the Poofter reserves the right to arm this mentally ill group.
So much for all that not letting the mentally ill buy guns claptrap.
Well, if you crawl out from under your rock that you clearly live under you would realize that homosexuality is not a mental illness.
However, ignorance of that fact coupled with the belief in mystical “gods” and “virgin births” and “son of god” thoughts, one could be considered a very severe mentally ill person.
Post one reliable scientific study that states homosexuality is a mental illness.
Bible verses not accepted.
SSAD was correctly termed a disorder until political pressure from homo groups coerced the APA to change that. A large percentage of psychiatrists still are of the opinion it is a disorder, as do most normal people when confronted with just what goes on between homos. Your very high rate of STDs is a clear indicator of your deviancy.
If you enjoy it, your choice, just do not try to pass it off as any sort of “normal” behavior.
The change occurred in 1973.
It is now 2018. 45 years have elapsed.
That just shows you are incapable of understanding new facts and statistics.
STD rates have nothing at all to do with this subject matter. Your point is irrelevant.
What one certainly can define as NOT normal – is the killing of 17 high school kids in Florida.
And yet – you are OK with that. Just use the issue to promote your anti-homosexual agenda.
As well as deny your religious brainwashed stupidity.
While I understand your role in life is a paid by Russia Trump Troll whose mission in life is to incite – please understand it does not work
What your ignorance proves is that you are just an ignorant idiot – void of any redeeming quality that makes you fit to live in America.
That is, assuming you live in America.
Enjoy your caviar and vodka tonight!
You prove – you are clearly the problem and can’t possibly be part of any solution.
I’m 43 years old now. I been engaging in a homosexual intercourse for 23 years now. I’ve been having homosexual intercourse with my husband for the past 13 years exclusively and I have never had an STD and neither has my husband. You know your statistics are not actually statistics, They’re actually lies that you tell yourself to justify your bigotry. People like you belong an insane asylum or in prison to protect good, honest, law abiding, Americans from the dangerous threat that you represent.
Are you a degreed psychologist?
Or just talking out of your huge fat a$$?
With your worthless useless bible in your hand?
For a guy who has his mouth firmly planted around Trumps ball sac I find it ironic you desire to discuss homosexuality
Can you provide the “large percentage” number of psychiatrists with back up from a credible source?
PS. keep replying with your inane babble.
It proves to everybody reading this that you do indeed have your head shoved up your a$$.
Also my $hit for brains a$$wipe idiot – but the term “poofter” is not a term used by English speaking Americans.
Which again shows you clearly do not live here so quite frankly, nothing you say really applies.
Not that anyone with a function brain would ever really listen too anyways.
An Atheist is much more likely to be a Christian, based on what they say and do every day….than your average Conservative who claims to be a Christian.
Hell is full of James Bordens….blinking in confusion for a second…realization dawns…..horror spreads across their faces as they realize their fates.
But then again, if we add homosexuality to the list we would have to also add pussy grabbers, child molesters and rapists.
But that’s 85% of all republicans so that most likely won’t fly.
so you would not be allowed to own a gun….ok, sounds sane.
Christian? Jew? Muslim?
NO GUNS!
Keep them out of the hands of the willfully ignorant and self deluded religious psychopaths like you and Borden.
Just for your information 4% gun violence is committed by people with diagnosed mental illness but the mentally ill are 11 times more likely to be the victims of gun violence. It’s not melly ill people everyone needs to be afraid of. If anything the mentally ill should be armed so to protect themselves from the dangerously corrupt and greedy christians desperate to prey on them and siphon their money and personal liberty away from them.
Over 80% of murderers in American prisons are self-avowed christians. Its dangerous racist, fascist, homophobic christians with deeply twisted desires to Inflict their willfully ignorant self deluded religious beliefs on to everybody they can at the end of a gun barrel who should be PERMANENTLY denied firearms altogether.
I say, “Live by the gun, die by the gun.”
I also say, “You pathetic simpletons will never find “salvation” Because it doesn’t exist and it especially doesn’t exist in a willfully ignorant, self deluded belief twisted from a book of lies, written 1500 years ago and “interpreted” for the express purpose of conning gullible idiots out of their money and political power and funneling it into the hands of an elite few who use it against your own best interests.
Wow did this thread ever get the homos stirred up.
Enjoy your coprophage poofters…………..and stay in Hilo bathhouses and out of the high schools recruitidng,
Here’s a dinner offer for you… come and eat the Coprophage out of my fat behind. It’ll be the best meal you’ve ever had.
No better “christians” than the ones ground into dog kibble so they’ll be useful for one in their worthless lives.
PS. No one cares what you think. We only care when you’ve been EXTERMINATED like the sub-human vermin you are.
If anyone needs to stay out of high schools for attempting to recruit innocent children….. It’s you Christian pedophiles. Always lurking searching seeking for the willfully ignorant self deluded fools that you can prey upon. Nobody preys on children more than christians. Nobody uses children as political pawns more than christians. It’s you psychopathic delusional idiots who need to be forced to stay away from all children. We homos don’t have to recruit children. It’s like saying women try to recruit more women. You can’t beak recruited in to homosexuality. You CAN be recruited into the willfully ignorant, self delusion known as Christianity. You can be lied to and manipulated into believing that idiotic nonsense. No one is born Christian. Everyone has been recruited into Christianity. I love how you mentally ill religiously deluded idiot always project your own and negatives on to your opponents just like Donald Trump does. Christians recruit children because there’s no other way to make more christians without trying to prey upon the innocent. Christian manipulate and sexually abuse children every day. If anyone needs to stay away from children if you willfully ignorant self deluded dangerous BEASTS…. Who need to be forced to stay away from children at the end of firearms. The best christians in America are the ones that are ran out of this country at the end of a gun. No better christians in America than the dead ones.
I’m happy to protect the children of Hawaii island from you dangerous predetory, child molesting, Child abusing, wife abusing, criminal christians. And when I protect children from you predatory criminal scum….. I will be lauded as a hero and you will be derided and laughed at much as you are today.
Remember your lot in life. Remember what the majority of people on this island think of you and Borden. You’re a useless idiot who lives on WELFARE so you and your fellow predatory scum bags can focus on recruiting as many children into your idiotic and delusional, religious belief as you can.
When is the next time you’ll be at the park with Borden so I’ll be able to tell both this to your face. I bet you don’t have the balls to meet me in public. I dare you to meet me in public. At the park downtown, where you predators always hang out trying to prey on innocent children in the park, so I can record myself telling you what a fvcken miserable piece of krapp you are.
You don’t have the testicular fortitude to confront this Homo.
Not at all. It showed that you are not a person who lives in America as well as proved you are a head up your a$$ idiot.
There are no bathhouses in Hilo and there were 2 recent threats on social media by idiots stating they were going to shoot up 2 schools.
So, your comment, once yet again, is totally bull$hit.
As are you.
I am far more concerned about a catholic priest molesting a young boy than any homosexual person in or near our schools.
Mr. Borden is precisely correct. What I would add to his wise words is that each school needs volunteers to stand during school hours on the perimeter of the school to be the “EYES & EARS” to report/prevent entry of questionable individuals. Unless the perimeter is patrolled, the children are in jeopardy.
zig heil much?
“NAZI!” the anonymous blogger explained.
An Atheist is much more likely to be a Christian, based on what they say and do every day….than your average Conservative who claims to be a Christian.
You can call yourself King of Mars…you can call yourself anything.
Hell is full of James Bordens….blinking in confusion for a second…realization dawns…..horror spreads across their faces as they realize their fates.
Still no talk of the cause, just the desired tool used by the confused and frustrated perps.
advanced conservatism? just look at the middle east….homeland of the conservative….religious freedom….pretending to be devout…..open carry guns…..tradition without progression….sounds like your forefathers?
James G. Borden,
The Fake Christian who wants guns in schools…..the Hypocrite Jesus warned us about…..Hell is full of these people.
In addition to being a fake christian, he is also a convicted thief!
But that goes hand in hand
btw Lizzy borden…..why not ask Jesus? What did he say? and what did Jesus say after one person did take up that sword?
An Atheist is much more likely to be a Christian, based on what they say and do every day….than your average Conservative who claims to be a Christian.
You can call yourself King of Mars…you can call yourself anything.
Hell is full of James Bordens….blinking in confusion for a second…realization dawns…..horror spreads across their faces as they realize their fates.
Linking an atheist to any religion is like calling bald a hair color.
That said most religious devout people are really more atheist in reality.
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Worked out great today with the teacher in Georgia.
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN PARK, HILO
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