Arm everyone. Mass shootings fall under the soft target category, same with malls, some infrastructure like water plants, etc. What they all have in common is being gun free zones and very easy to access by nature of their intended purposes. A hard target would be a national guard armory, nuclear material (including medical like a cyclotron), maternity wards, etc. where access is restricted, and several guards rotate on shifts with security system exemptions from OSHA to lockdown facilities.
Crazies trying to get attention, send a message, live their delusion or whatever will go for the easiest target. Very rarely are hard targets hit (even more rarely are they infiltrated). Hell, rarely are even gun stores hit though the security is lax, access is easy, and there is a lot of value that is easy to move. If everyone is armed, the only easy target left is for them to just go kill themselves.
It would be pretty simple to implement as well, bid out a project for a.380 pistol that simply needs to be reliable, the cz frame would be best, supply one pistol, one magazine, and a box of 50 rounds of ammo at the completion of a safety and basic marksmanship course, every 3 months go to the local police station to shoot using your 50 rounds, every year a new safety course and inspection to see if the weapon needs to be serviced, replaced, whatever. An old lady can shoot.380, so that would be fine. In a way it would be gun control.
"Gun control" is NOT going to rid our society of firearms regardless of one's position on that topic. Also locking down schools has a lot of problems. If some teenage person with BPD or ASPD gets ahold of a firearm something that is easy to do even with tough gun control laws on the books, there is nothing to stop them from hurting others. If they can't do it at a school, what about a bus stop? Or a mall where teens hang out? Or a movie theatre while teens are waiting to see a movie? I have no issue with schools having a resource officer as well as metal detectors in place. The problem I have is thinking gun control or locking down schools makes teens safer. I honestly don't think either does.
Prisons can also be called "Forts" not only does it protect against shooters but kidnappers to.
Many times, non custodial parents pick up kids or take them. Could also be random strangers doing it to.
Besides, we already have complex gun control, so we'd need less laws to make it simple and not remove any rights... or else they'll never stop, give an inch more and more will go.
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Neither. Gun control only keeps guns away from law abiding citizens and doesn't affect criminals.
The security wouldn't work unless there were armed guards around the perimeter and kids all had to go through a metal detector to get into school.
The only reason there aren't FAR more school casualties when someone decides to attack a school is because it is often the students themselves doing it and they aren't very intelligent. As someone that has worked in schools for 12 years, I am glad that the school attackers haven't figured out the ways I have realized would be most damaging and harmful for a school attack.
No guns used at all, and only items that are easily accessible and not illegal for kids to have would be far more deadly if they thought of what to use and how and when to use them.
The best way is to prevent incidents by having discussions with students at the beginning of the year explaining the importance of reporting any harmful devices or weapons brought to school by anyone, even their friends, or reporting conversations where students discuss doing harmful things on school grounds. They can also reduce casualties by properly training school staff how to respond so the initial room/location where an incident occurs is the only place it does and denying criminals access to the rest of the rooms/buildings.
Since we keep doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results, maybe we acknowledge that guns aren’t going anywhere and we start focusing on school security and mental health. Encourage firearms to be locked up at home by providing tax reductions for firearm safes and gun locks/cases. Implement school resource officers and bring in therapists for children to be able to confide in. We need to rethink education as a whole in this country because it isn’t working.
schools should be prisons. it would certainly teach the kids you never want to fail and repeat. dropouts might be high but they were gonna fail anyways. the bullying would be close to zero because kids could tell the guards. it's a great idea
Neither. Nothing kills more Americans than other Americans.
Al-Qaeda just needs to get into the American gun market to cause more problems and make more profits.
gun control no guns, no shootings. simple as that. I don't know how those NRA nuts always manage to convince people that weapons can't possibly be part of the problem.
The answer to gun violence, isn't more gun violence
That's the NRA' answer to everything, to profit
You lost the ability to claim you care about children's mental health when you advocated for Covid restrictions.
Gun control doesn't work even a little bit. I would say armed security and mental health care.
Mass security go and gun control go, we dont need those things but sadly we do in 21st sentury because of bad people
It’s not that simple…. It’s not one or the other…
s security and weapon control.
I reject your premise and narrow options...
Metal detectors.
gun control
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