Posted on 02/15/2018 6:43:26 PM PST by Mafe
Whenever there is a mass shooting in the media, commentators rush to figure out on what to blame the latest violence. Predictably, those who want gun control blame gun control. Others blame mental illness — and perhaps a lack of government programs related to it. Some others blame racism or ideology, as was the case with the Aurora theater shooting when one ABC talking head concluded the shooter must a "Tea Party" member within hours of the shooting. And then there's the Republican politician who blamed the same shooting on “the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.”
The odds of dying in a mass shooting remain amazingly small, as Healthline notes "The lifetime risk of dying in a mass shooting is around 1 in 110,154 — about the same chance of dying from a dog attack or legal execution."
Nevertheless, the need to create a theory showing exactly what causes these shootings remains strong in many observers. Often, these theories are followed up with some demand for a change in public policy, whether it be gun control, more health care spending, or changes in education and social policy.
What all of the strategies have in common, however, is that they depend on very indirect solutions related to social engineering while ignoring the most proximate cause of the tragedies in question.
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I’m sure these people are looking for a violent means to kill.
The terror they are creating is part of what they want.
.....” We do not even have a school cop most of time”....
Heck downtown here there’s a grocery store that has a security cop walking the aisles...you’d think a school would warrant that.
He definitely planned it but I disagree with those who say it was well planned and he must have been smart about it. Nothing he did was particularly brilliant IMO. Just basic knowledge and basic logic was all it took. Same goes for most other incidents like this.
Sxhools are already g-d prisons.
“Why not just poison things?”
Even with ready access to nerve agents, it’s not that easy to deploy them.
WHY CAN’T GOVERNMENT PROTECT OUR CHILDREN?
They demand we send our children to unsafe public school, and then fill their heads with useless crap, like how many different genders there are.
SCHOOL VOUCHERS
yup - making schools even more prison like is not going to increase safety
Let me tell what doesn’t work;
Six unarmed adults using their bodies to shield 20 kids from Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook.
i mean they already treat parents and anyone going there like criminals that have to be badged in and crap.
“All schools now have buzzers at the front door...”
Not around here they don’t.
Things need to change.
hmmm
In hot Arizona, each school room opens to the outdoors like an outdoor shopping center.
my apologies... I had no idea...doesn’t seem like the best plan for a school
A Jewish school near us has burly guards in black suits out in the street in front of the school and at the driveway into the school. I suspect there are some well-armed guards there.
“Why Don’t Schools Have Better Security”
They did.
In 1800: “
“Children of the present day would be somewhat startled to go to school attended by large dogs, to keep off the bears and other wild animals, to study all day by the crackle of the great fire and back logs, to hear the howling of wolves at rollcall, and see the teacher take from its resting place over the door, a trusty rifle to guard the way home. Such were the first schools in 1800.”
‘Periwinkle’, “The Sentinel”, Feb 21, 1874 [”Ticonderoga Sentinel”, Ticonderoga, NY]
My
“Most educators don’t like the idea because they think it would be distracting or intimidating.”
A teacher packing heat might intimidate some of the thugs.
Something I noted about this shooting; there had been a practice fire alarm that morning. Then the kid comes and sets off the alarm again which confused the students. In this day and time of school shootings how much would it cost to have a different sounding alarm for an active shooter? If there is a “Take Cover” alarm that would mean all students into the nearest room. In this case the shooter set off the fire alarm. The staff would have known quickly that something was amiss and set off the “take cover” alarm. That might have kept the students out of the halls in panic. Just a thought.
Gun free zones in this day are an invitation to trouble.
Oh, yes it will! Some things I experienced in high crime area inner city schools that had NO PROBLEMS with school violence:
1. VALID student picture ID badges. You don't have one, you don't come in.
2. See-thru plastic backpacks.
3. Restricted building access ways with armed and trained personnel at each one looking for trouble and troubled students.
PS - as far as your "prison" comment, my wife worked for 13 years in the Texas Juvenile Justice education system with convicted murderers, rapists, and other dangerous juvenile whackos. She said she felt much safer there than in ANY inner-city high school. The difference? Restricted access and lots of trained guards.
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