Ciarán Ferrie on Nostr: "It feels like there are echoes of the well-trodden US response to mass shootings in ...
"It feels like there are echoes of the well-trodden US response to mass shootings in schools to these recent spate of deaths. Mirroring the call of the gun-rights lobby post-Sandy Hook to send children to school with bulletproof backpacks so as not to be future victims; the Road Safety Authority continued with its evidence-free call for pedestrians and cyclists to be visible and adorned in hi-viz."
This is a must read from Keith Adams of the JCFJ
#RoadSafety
https://www.jcfj.ie/2023/08/24/choose-your-weapon-cars-or-fists/Published at
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