10 of the Top Political Pictures

These are some of the best pictures on Politicomments (291-300)

1996 Shooting in school in Scotland. 16 children and one teacher killed. Following year, UK banned private ownership of all cartridge ammunition handguns. No school shootings since.

Photo of David PetraeusImagine a world where Americans were as outraged by war as they are by sex scandals.

Frederick Douglass: It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

Four figures behind bars, one wearing American colors: Of the entire world's prison population 1 in 4 is imprisoned in the land of the free.

Photo of gay couple with twin babies: So same sex couples aren't good parents? When is the last time a same sex couple disowned their child for being straight?

College classroom: Corporations get $80 Billion in Tax Breaks from State and Local Gov. every year. Enough to hire 2 million teachers.

Photo of prison dormitory: Privatized Prisons - America's largest low-income housing project.

Teacher in Finland: We pay teachers like doctors, students enjoy over an hour of recess, and there's no mandatory testing - the opposite of what America does.

Bernie Sanders: When SS was developed 50% of seniors lived in poverty. Today that number is 10%. SS has done exactly what it was designed to do!