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This looks like an XY problem[0] on a massive scale.

Because the grown-ups can't figure out how to solve the top-level problems, they are instead dealing with the low-level symptoms and applying band-aids.

It also reeks of political pork to me.

I admit that enumerating the top-level problems is politically fraught, but I think they can be neatly condensed into:

* that mass shootings occur, ever

* that we cannot control childrens' use of the internet in any meaningful way

* that children are seeing through the thin veneer of meaningfulness that life in the US is supposed to have (notably traditional career paths and religion)

I don't pretend to have easy answers, but see-through backpacks is security theater that is the stuff of Bruce Schneier competitions.

[0] https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378/213169




wont doesn't mean can't. gotta make sure all the board members, directors, principals, and book companies cash in first otherwise were all communists it says so in this book I needed a code for it must be true.




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