Since there are many more things in the world that can kill a person and controlling all of them would be impossible my suggestion is to choose a more singular solution. Lets have our esteemed legislators, since they love passing laws, pass a law outlawing mental illness. I'm sure that will solve as many of the problems. (sarc)
Lets have our esteemed legislators, since they love passing laws, pass a law outlawing mental illness.Actually, I prefer a more singular solution that has proven to work. Treat the threat from deranged people retail exactly the same way as we treated the threat from deranged people wholesale in the 50s and 60s. I remember "duck and cover" drills, the mock evacuations to civil defense shelters during class time, the disaster drill I participated in as a Boy Scout (I was a "severe-burn victim"), the instruction on how to be prepared at home for a nuclear event, and so forth. Nobody died from a Dr. Strangelove event, but the "ounce of prevention" didn't affect my rights as a human being or cost an arm and a leg.
(Well, the civil defense shelter did cost the town a bit, but it was pitched as "multi-use" -- the shelter was built into a tunnel that crossed the main drag that split the school campus in half. The tunnel let students change buildings without having to contend with traffic...or the traffic having to contend with them.)
Some of the changes would require a bit of money: solid doors with substantial locks, for example. The teacher training could be included with the existing in-service programs, so the cost there is minimal. There is a *lot* that our schools can do to "be prepared".
Let’s have our esteemed leaders make laws that apply to them equally. They all travel with heavily armed security teams, disarm them first.
were you listening to Mike Church this AM?