No matter how well prepared the schools or wherever are, the attacker always has the advantage.
He would have still found ways to buy it illegally. Which makes arming teachers and administrators all the more important.
This was also the viewpoint of the administrator of a major mental hospital that I met some months ago in a medium sized Florida city. Florida was, at the time I spoke with her, 50th per capita out of the 50th states in expenditures on public mental health. Patients were also being bumped out the door as quickly as possible in a false economy.
If any kind of socialized medicine is to exist at all, mental health should be important in it because if that goes to pot (not intending a pun here) the person will likely let his physical health go to pot too -- not to mention the possibility of going off one's nut and committing an atrocity like a school shooting.
But the spiritual side of life matters too. Good mental hygeine, which is encouraged by good spirituality, can forestall lapses into bad mental health. With Florida such a hotbed for Christian fundamentalist followings, I wonder why there are not more -- far more -- public ministries. I thought they would proliferate like the proverbial Hare Krishnas and Jehovah's Witnesses... but it's a "circle their own wagons" situation. This, I believe, sends the Holy Spirit into grieved doldrums.
Are all Florida schools complying?
Make no mistake, the chief and primary concern of the educational establishment is maintaining control: NOT the safety of the students.
They cry poor mouth while legislating any armed individual on the campus be an employee of the school. Unpaid volunteers are always welcome...except for security.