re: How’s this for school security?

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Your solution would just lower the body count, which I don't have a kid but I assume even one child shot is one child too many.

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The "one is too many" mentality is turning us into a nanny state.

A free country cannot detangle itself from tragedy without giving up 100% of its freedoms.

I say this as a father of two.

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Okay but stricter gun laws have a much better chance of eliminating this.

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I've never seen a study comparing the likelihood of either succeeding, and until I do I have to consider this speculation.

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Your solution would just lower the body count, which I don't have a kid but I assume even one child shot is one child too many.

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I mean, if you agree my solution would help why not agree with it and then if you also want stricter gun laws pursue those as well. While I don't really agree with the gun laws I've seen presented, because they don't seem like they'd be effective without infringing on 2nd amendment rights to me, I still don't see why the two ideas are mutually exclusive.

As far as gun laws are concerned, the real thing you have to contend with is that a lot of people in this country (including the founders, as the constitution supports this, at least in its current form) believe that the positives of the fundamental rights outlined in the bill of rights, (including gun ownership) outweigh the negative consequences of those rights, whatever that may be. Until that fundamental right is overturned, I don't see how any effective gun legislation will be either condoned or constitutional.

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Couple this with armed national guard in the schools and I believe you drastically reduce the risk of a mass shooting being so mass.

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Children shouldn't have to go to school in a military compound under watch by armed guards. It's cost prohibitive anyway. Why is it that so many small-government conservatives suddenly want to raise taxes and increase government expenditures?

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I love how the solution to guns is always more guns. There was an armed guard in Florida and he stood outside while it went down. On top of that, if there are armed guards, you don't think the kids who plan this won't take that into account? They'll enter through another entrance, they could stash the weapons in lockers, a whole multitude of things that prob won't save many lives. On top of that, let's say the guards do go in and find him, he takes a classroom hostage and now what?

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Lot of words to tell us you're a coward.

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love how the solution to guns is always more guns. There was an armed guard in Florida and he stood outside while it went down. On top of that, if there are armed guards, you don't think the kids who plan this won't take that into account? They'll enter through another entrance, they could stash the weapons in lockers, a whole multitude of things that prob won't save many lives. On top of that, let's say the guards do go in and find him, he takes a classroom hostage and now what

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That’s really dumb.

Because of possible problems with the defense against psycho mass murderers, you’d rather leave the kids defenseless.

I don’t enjoy being rude, but it’s just a stupid way to see things.

I’m not implying anything

That’s what I said

maybe they could use some of the money being used on $70mm plus football stadiums for school security and other improvements........


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