Re: In 2022, with the school shooting past and present in mind

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May 27, 2022, 7:33 AM

1-100% agree with metal detectors with limited access and locked doors--after all, it took just one unsuccessful shoe bomber on a plane to change the way we fly.
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2-it looks like having armed AND well trained in house resource officers is needed, but if they take the job, which no one is forcing them to do so, they and local police must be willing to rush the shooter at their own peril. Not only do minutes count, but seconds.

3-Honest gun control discussion and legislation that will probably do little to no good. There are almost 400 million guns in the US now, there are 15 million AR-15's in circulation. Assault weapon is a very misleading term, shotguns and pistols can be very, very devastating in close quarters.

4-I could personally go with age 21 to purchase any firearm with an exception for active duty military.

5-The Second Amendment is a serious impediment to significant gun control legislation and I am thankful for that, so politicians need to be honest about what they say and be accurate. In fact, Biden was once again wrong when he said at the time that the Second Amendment was passed that cannons could not be possessed by individuals. There was no such prohibition at the time that the Second Amendment was passed.No, I am not advocating for cannon possession.

6-Our society is THE problem. We have brought up several generations of disaffected young and angry boys and men without strong male mentors. Babies having babies and the erosion of the nuclear family is a big deal. Discipline and morals are important. Unless we address the rot that continues, violence will continue to plague us.

7-Better social media monitoring. I was kicked off Facebook for several days, inside of a day, for posting that we in the US are trashy, meaning litter bugs. BTW, no longer on FB, but this kid made no secret of his intentions and yet here we are.

This is a very complicated issue and we do need a dialogue on violence in general and gun violence in particular, but things have changed when people brazenly carjack, smash and grab, push folks in front of trains and randomly assault people on our streets just for kicks.

This problem goes far beyond guns which is simply a tool that sick and evil people use to harm others.

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Okay, fair enough. But 1st, swear on an oath you are doing everything and by all means necessary to keep my kids safe both monetarily and documented policy/ practices and training. What does the current training agenda look like? Is the training and policies in each school being practiced.

2. Can I count on someone (aside from teachers staff ) as they are supposed to be teaching and not wrestling with active shooters? How is it fair to them to put the sole responsibility on their shoulders? Why not have professionals on site and inside !

3. Will my child be subject to disciplinary action if he or she can’t focus at school work due to them feeling unsafe at school because other “fail safe”mechanisms have failed at other schools?

4. Finally, not being open to suggestion is just plain biased and arrogant. In an event where 1 innocent child has lost their live due to a hate filled perpetrator who ripped them from the face of the earth wether it was racially charged, mentally charged or whatever the motive was is completely wrong. If you set back, refuse to listen to reason, come to logical and sensible answers then we will keep repeating the same stupidity over and over.

You said that bringing in specially trained individuals, or as you called it Heavily Armed forces” (when you failed in your subtle attempt to put words in my mouth) was an overkill. Would you call it an underkill if the only person on site to take down an armed male teenager was feeble ole Mrs Smith? I’ll take the overkill on this one in reference to safety concerns.

In 2022, with the school shooting past and present in mind