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Originally Posted by fasternyou929
So your suggestion is maintain the status quo, because actually doing anything is essentially useless?
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A single police officer in a school might deter a little drug or gang activity, but not a shooter who is willing to trade his life for fame. The Secret Service is afraid that they couldn't stop such a person.
To do anything meaningful you would have to essentially consolidate police substations with schools. Can anyone envision that? Schools as armed camps? I really don't see teachers taking the place of trained law enforcement personnel who, when the chips are down and the bullets are flying, still make enough mistakes of their own.
Escalation is not the answer. It's dealing with the wrong side of the equation. What is really needed, is a quantum shift in how Americans look at firearm ownership. I constantly hear people screaming about their "right" to bear arms. Frequently I find that the people who most loudly proclaim such are precisely the people I really wouldn't want to be carrying a gun, when the shit hits the fan. The whole thing has to start with an understanding of the DUTY to keep and bear arms. The duty to be able to act as a member of a "well regulated militia." The duty to give proper reverence to such a weapon and to properly use, and NOT use it.
And, as I said before, issues like mental health care need to be addressed in order to curtail this sort of thing. By the time some nutbar decides that he wants to shoot up a school or shopping mall, it's already too late.