I agree with a number of his points, but I'd include some others.
Privatize government-schools and issue vouchers for the parents, so they can choose where the tax-paid tuition-money goes. That way, the schools will be forced to value the kids… or be boycotted into bankruptcy. As an extra bonus, competition will force schools to include all sorts of features & benefits. Back in the Philippines (where we rely on the private sector for education more), there's a variety of options: science-focused, general Christian, Catholic (Franciscan, Dominican, Jesuit, etc.), international (also accredited with the Ministry/Department of Education of Japan, mainland China, democratic Taiwan, the U. K., the U. S., India, etc.), etc.
Mandatory self-defense & emergency-preparedness classes for all students. My private-school back in the PH coordinated with our Boys Scouts & Girls Scouts for emergency-preparedness classes. Just a few years ago, our indigenous martial-arts became mandatory P. E. (How I wish I had this, when I was a kid!) But, the traditional East Asian martial-arts' focus on mutual-respect, virtue, self-restraint, and internal-peace should not be neglected, or you will only make more-destructive students. Mandatory defenselessness with no choice is no virtue. CHOOSING gentleness despite capacity for merciless violence is virtue.
For more extreme cases where only violence will result in justice, legalize (empty-hand only) dueling like Canada did, but with school authorities (or law-enforcement officers, in worse case scenarios) as referees to ensure fairness, safety, and binding outcomes.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/en-garde-dueling-will-soon-be-legal-canada-180963653/
https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/duel-canada-legal_n_17005032
Would you rather the bottled-up emotions explode with unpredictable bullets or a controlled environment with mutually agreed-upon rules?
My solution on guns is essentially the Founders' & Switzerland's: "We, the People" = "the Militia" cited in the 2nd Amendment, hence the "Militia Act of 1792" having all free, White male citizens of age to own a military-grade firearm and register, the “Militia Act of 1862” including Blacks, and the final “Militia Act of 1903” (Pub. L. 57−33, 32 Stat. 775) including all male citizens of age & foreigners with intent to become citizens, and differentiating between an organized militia (deemed the "National Guard") & the all the rest ("Reserve Militia"). I'd un-repeal it, and update it to include women (as per the Civil Rights movement's push for "equality"), too. Then, we the extra benefit of a safer, healthier, fitter, more emergency-prepared citizenry. Plus, probably lower vulnerability to the war-propaganda in "news" reports, knowing we ourselves and/or our loved-ones would be deployed if we bit into it. And if any traitor decides to open fire on the "civilian" citizenry, the fool would instantly be reduced to bloody Swiss cheese from shots in all directions! Justice & the wrath of the trained masses will be swift! Otherwise, the attacker (s) should hope the police rush to save them. lol
But, be comforted. The U. S. is fortunate. The attackers are generally 1 lone person with no military-grade firearms, training, reinforcements, or allies for coordinated assaults, with no plans of selling their hostages to the highest bidder overseas, conscript them to cartels as child-criminal underlings to abuse local juvenile-law, or profit from them as sex-slaves until they die of abuse or suicide. U. S. school-shootouts are a 1-day ordeal, and the thing is done. Believe you me: Even worse things happen outside U. S. borders, but they're too normal, boring, or inconvenient for U. S. reporters to include in their televised-narratives/reports.
My Philippines has tighter gun-control laws, but how on Earth do the cartels, the illegal Communist Party of the Philippines (C. P. P.)'s armed New People's Army (N. P. A.) terrorist-wing, and Islamic State subsidiaries (Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiyah, Ansar al-Khalifa Philippines, etc.) still illegally acquire armories' worth of handguns, rifles, explosives, and other weapons of war‽ They're ILLEGAL, for Pete's sake! And the odd thing is that Manila even had to kind of walk it back by re-arming civilians to form the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (C. A. F. G. U.) militia! So, skip the walk-back: Arm & train!
I understand that bullying is an issue, especially in school-shootings. (I was bullied, too!) In my case, either I switched schools (so the school lost my tuition-money for their revenue) or the bully & his gang went way too far to the point that the principal herself, our teacher, and my parent (their paymaster)… um, made him change his ways. I eventually moved again, but (from last I heard) the bully stopped bullying altogether from then on. Of course, it also probably helped that their last act (s) of bullying was in front of the assembled student-body & my resulting breaking-down on the way home igniting my mother's mama-bear wrath. But the potential of losing a student should cost the schools. They must fear getting a reputation as a bullies' nest and losing enough students to cause financial difficulties, or bullying will only be a minor issue to them.
He's exactly right, guns aren't the problem, it's definitely mental health. Again he is right, if they don't have access to guns they will use a different weapon. Our mental health system in the UK is terrible too, but its still 100x times better than the US. We don't have access to guns, yet kids still get kilked by other kids at school. All politicians are full of crap, but US politicians are more fulled with crap than most in the world, they are also some of the most corrupt.
Take guns away from the people who carry them legally, the crininals are still going to have them, but now the good people don't have a way to defend themselves.
They say it makes schools like a prison, I say it makes them like a fort... kids love being in fort.
It is what I keep saying, ignore the tool and go for the root... something is happening.
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Yeah. #1 thing I support is if a kid does anything illegal, the parents should be held 100% accountable just as if they did it. No exceptions. This would motivate lazy parents to be proactive about raising kids better & dealing with issues sooner. The parents should have the out of disowning the kid and sending him/her to a boot camp style orphanage. #2 Give any adult the right to slap the sh*t out of any kid who says something disrespectful or breaks the law in front of them. And the crowd that claims this would be bad are the same people who want to go soft on violent criminals & contribute to the decline of society today.
We need cops that are not afraid to go into an attack. So the question must be ask if not a cop a soilder
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