Canon Shooter
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But do they not all have to go through the process of protecting themselves. You or someone else pointed out you cannot tell who is going to be attacked.
All schools take security measures, yes. I would be willing to bet my last nickel that they do that in Scotland, too...
or you might change
I'm not sure what I would change. I haven't done anything...
I would do something about what makes it so easy for them to do it and that is the guns.
What would you do?
I understand you needing them in the old days but now you have police.
Seriously?
During the shooting in Texas, the police waited almost an hour to confront the shooter.
An hour.
The only way the police can stop a school shooter is to already be on school grounds before the shooting starts, and you've already said you don't want the police in schools...
Also in the old days you could not just move it about and several people fall down dead. Obviously the other thing is to look at why people are choosing schools and see if something can be done there.
Because schools are soft targets. Schools are "gun free" zones. As such, someone who wakes up and decides to go on a shooting spree knows that the odds of him being thwarted are lowest at a school. If it was understood that teachers can be armed if they choose, it's likely fewer maniacs would choose schools as their target...
Of course.
Okay, so no guns in the classroom unless a shooter enters your grandchild's classroom, is that right?
Got it.
It's hypocritical, but I got it...
I just am glad they do not have the stress of any of that. They never think someone would come to their school and kill them. It could happen but it is soo unlikely they do not need to ever think about it.
It's also "soo unlikely" here, too. Again, there are over 97,000 public schools in the United States. We have over 3,000,000 public school teachers. That's more than half of your entire population. Imagine 3,000,000 people who are prepared and ready to defend someone's life...
There has not been a situation of copy cat school shooting here and it did come about...
You're somewhat confusing here.
There has not been a case or there has been one?
Prior to that we had had several of these shootings of random people on the street. It was becoming not a surprise. Then there was the Dunblane mass murder of primary school children, an almost immediate change in our gun laws, no more school shootings and the end of the random shootings in the street. Well worth it to me. We made the right choice.
And that works for Scotland.
We have cities with larger poulations than Scotland. What is workable there may not be workable here. Gun confiscation in this country would lead to a civil war. It'll never happen...