If gun ownership is the problem, then this behavior would have been the norm since the beginning of this country. Schools would have always been targets. Yet, many here can say that our parents never spent one minute worrying about our safety when they sent us off to school. In rural areas like mine, guns were brought into the schools for safety and hunting classes. Rifles on gun racks, in pick ups, in the parking lot, during hunting season, and no one thought about mowing people down in class.
This seed isn't being sown by the right to own guns.
When we kicked God out of our schools, guess who waltzed right in to fill the void. Stop teaching 5 year olds they can be whatever sex they want. Instead, teach them how to write, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" in their hearts, in crayon, then in pencil, then in pen. Print it on their diplomas so they take it with them.
Now we need to train and arm teachers and staff to protect their students against crazy, because crazy is the problem. And ironically, it is a problem that we are cultivating and grooming in the very place the repercussions are being felt.
We know how to protect our judges. How many shootings are there inside courthouses these days? It is time for the same protection for our children? Monitored Enter and Exits right through the machines. Beep. Stop right there.
How many billions do we spend on everything and everyone else? Now it is time to use our money to protect our own children. Start with your city council...