Posted on 02/18/2018 5:01:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Idea i saw on FR yesterday...put gun safes in every classroom...let ccw teachers keep their guns there...let potential perps guess which classrooms have guns in safes and which dont.
I don’t disagree with you, although your statement that no one would have considered bringing a gun to school contradicts the many your age and older who said people often had guns or knives, they just didn’t attack others with them.
However, you are talking about a drastic change in society, not a “simple step” for anything. When a society has lost its moral bearing, when there are powerful forces in place that want this and more of the same ... nothing is simple.
How many of those gun deaths were Suicides?
You have the right idea. With today's technology, there is no reason to force hundreds of kids into a single space to learn what they need to learn. The internet provides ample assistance and access to web-designed schooling that kids can go through at their own pace and from the comfort and safety of home. Yes, there are a few hands-on type courses that require attendance, but the vast majority of education should be converted to web-based applications.
I also think there needs to be a law ensuring that the family of a shooter be held responsible. Families who have a disturbed family member should not own guns. It’s tempting fate. If they have an immediate family member who is mentally ill or who has cognitive challenges, they should accept that they cannot own a gun. If they choose to own a gun anyway, they need to suffer legal consequences if their gun is used for violence.
The Sandy Hook shooter should NEVER have been exposed to guns, and neither should this latest disturbed person. There were so many signs along the way that these shooters had mental and emotional disturbances.
That is all true, but unfortunately many do pass the background checks. Until that becomes stricter not much will change
“1. Metal Detectors In Every School: This maintains such common sense it’s impossible to believe that it doesn’t already happen.”
Um, school shooters would simply shoot the person operating the metal detector first and continue on.
THAT is common sense. Metal detectors are not.
If you think you need metal detectors then you’ve got a bigger problem than you are addressing.
“Take the instant personal fame out of the equation, and the motivation will drop to nil.”
Unfortunately, social media allows the fame before they take their first shot.
Yes, they are. A radio talk show host in Atlanta talked about most of these same ideas and added computer monitors inside the school with every access entry watched by camera and manned every single hour of the school day.
I wish I had the radio host’s name but I’m not a regular listener - only when I’m running errands and am in the car. It’s not a household name...
Excellent.
To clarify.. one guarded entry point once school is in session i.e. after everyone is inside... figured that obvious.
There ARE online K-12 schools.
So true...The devil is always in the details...
They will require some effort, and no little expense...About like the effort already employed in other public buildings, or in protecting the elites on Capitol Hill...
Respectfully, I believe he meant straightforward, if not exactly simple...Cheers!
Then maybe the public execution should be posted on Facebook, and live-streamed on YouTube...With mandatory watching in every middle school and high school classroom in the nation...
People once upon a time took their kids to view a hanging for good reason...A lesson if not always learned, seldom forgotten...
Many people have many sensible suggestions which would make an attack less likely or less harmful. I doubt any of them will be implemented.
When I was a kid scared straight was a tv show
it took troubled kids to jails to talk to inmates.
After seeing what jail was like I tried real hard to
be good. maybe we should be showing that show to all kids
at lease let them know what jail is like . then they can decide before they become criminals.
Why not ask parents to volunteer as armed security?
Vet them for psychological stability, train them in response protocols, and let them take duty on their off days with an open schedule. They’ll even watch each other. My workplace has been using this program with first responders for almost twenty years, and it works beautifully.
Voila! Committed security force for FREE!
Why?
We can't!
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