Way ahead of you
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Ah yes, the way to tackle school shootings is clearly to repeal the amendment giving young adults votes, instead of – to pick a purely random example – the amendment giving everyone guns. That’s not so obviously specious you could see through it in a fog at midnight. 
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Under common law, the legal age of majority was 21 years old. Minors under the age of 21 had no standing to rights enjoyed by parents.
So, no child marriage any more?
Oh, wait, that’s for men. Women are property. Silly me.
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Yeah, I’ve got nothing.
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Sebert and School Board President Kelly Piascek said the “subject matter addressed by the song’s lyrics” didn’t meet “the age and maturity level of the students”
I was singing songs like the following one in administration-led sing-alongs when I was in KINDERGARTEN.
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I still listen to that song regularly (in one of my playlists) and now it makes me sad. We had such high hopes.
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Again with the Death Star?
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Can some cities secede from Texas before it secedes from the union? 
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The preemption bills also provide for a private right of action, which effectively allows any business to sue a local entity or official over any local regulation it dislikes.
brought to you by the party of tort reform. 
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We need a middle finger reaction emoji.
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Yeah. That’s why we have legislation, and also constitutions. Because common law is out of date and needs changing and is incapable of doing so. Common law then develops around that constitution and legislation and aids its interpretation. Until that interpretation needs to be fixed by new legislation, amendments, or new constitutions.
Hate to break it to you butterfly but the entire system of law has been set up to deal with what you are framing as a positive, as a problem to be fixed. Laws need to be changed in an orderly manner which allows predictability for business.
ETA not you of course @anon33932455
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These are the same people that point to England/UKoGBaNI and say “but they don’t have a written constitution!”
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They have one you can amend by writing a strongly worded letter to the Times!
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Ugh:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/power-grid-substations-accelerationism-white-nationalism
TW: uh, pretty much all of this is fairly trigger-y, sorry
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Heh.
If only.
Austin woulda done that years ago.
Instead, we are mostly targeted for Very Specific Example-dom with each state legislature session. It’s amazing how reliably those twitchy good ol’ boys think Austin is so un-Texas-like.
Meanwhile, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton and their junta brethren like to stir things up around here, on a two-year cycle, I can’t imagine why:
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It is so head-slappingly infuriating that so many of the same people who want the Pledge of Allegiance to be mandatory seem so willfully ignorant of what the word “indivisible” means.
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