Every so often, you'll see a lot of different accounts suddenly start making identical or nearly identical posts, raising the same points that often aren't even that impressive. This is usually a case of someone sending them to certain political influencers and then repeating them verbatim. No thought went into this on the part of the influencer, of course, but someone out there thought it was a zinger.

Over the weekend, a new one dropped, apparently, and it's all that you could have hoped for.

If only America would protect school children the way it protects Teslas.

— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) March 22, 2025

And, of course, there are indications that Tristan here wasn't the only one who got the memo.

If only Republicans cared as much about protecting kids in school as they do about protecting Teslas.

— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) March 22, 2025

It's possible this whole thing is just some kind of organic growth, to be sure, but it doesn't really matter where it originated. It's ridiculous.

The firebombing and shooting up of Tesla dealerships are domestic terrorism, which involves political motivations, so those are inherently going to be treated differently while being investigated.

But let's think about how we're "protecting" Teslas.

Teslas have something called "sentry mode" that monitors the vehicle's surroundings are records if someone approaches. That's how we have so many videos of Teslas being keyed or otherwise vandalized.

A lot of this vandalism is probably not even investigated because it's such a petty crime. If an identity comes up, the cops might go and ask a few questions, but this is probably not very high up on their list of priorities, particularly in cities with high crime. Frankly, I get it.

Now, let's think about what we do with our school children.

I don't know about Tristan or Jo, but I personally want every teacher so inclined to have a gun to help protect those kids. I want school resource officers in every school as well, just to help protect those school children. 

If someone hurts a school child, they're hunted by every law enforcement agency with relevant jurisdiction--and the others would love to hunt that party but generally can't unless the suspect crosses into their jurisdiction.

But let's go back to protecting schools for a moment, though. Note where I stand on that protection. Many of you agree with either part or all of what I laid out.

Do you know who doesn't?

That's right, people like Tristan and Jo, that's who.

When the subject of armed teachers--hell, even the subject of metal detectors at the door--people like those two lose their minds. They fight such things tooth and nail, screaming about how it creates the wrong environment and how everything will be awful. They rage against school resource officers, screaming about the "school to prison pipeline" and oppose those left and right as well.

Pretty much everything that might actually protect school kids gets shut down by the same people.

And then they have the nerve to push this kind of talking point? It's insulting, infuriating, and absolutely idiotic.

We know what they want. They're trying to leverage this into justifying gun control. They think this is a dunk on gun rights.

And it's even dumber than the talking point on its own because of that.