We Know How to Stop School Shootings

[mikesilvia]

In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman's mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's attention is riveted on what could have been done to...

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[Wickabee]

So we'll all feel safer if no one knows who's packing?
Sounds like it makes it easier for a "law abiding citizen" to bring a gun inside a building and shoot everyone.

[centrehice]

The argument for 1850's Western logic and behaviour is what bothers me. How in the Hell can you live in 2012 and act like it's just another nice day for a shootout ala Roswell, New Mexico?

Words fail me with the 200 year old solutions that some think are the only way to act. The number of those saying.....

"Well if there were a person nearby that was carrying, the killing would not have happened." This logic by the way is only found amongst minorities, and only found in one country - the USA.

Nobody else stoops to such inane levels of insanity, and lack of common sense.

[shrewsbury]

look at the stats, good people with guns, stop bad people with guns

[Wickabee]

Yes and armed guards at schools would be a great thing.

America: Safety through absolute fear

[shrewsbury]

I am against armed guards at schools

[Wickabee]

I am against armed guards at schools

As anyone with half a brain should be.
I love the NRA saying it's wrong to give up the right to guns, but having the government put armed guards in schools would he a good thing.

[shrewsbury]

not a member of the NRA and they are dumb for saying this, but I do believe that a ban on assault weapons won't prevent such events. but to be honest, I could care less if you ban them.

and how is the mental health system going to stop this and how are they at fault. they can only force something if the individual is under their care, in their presence and still have other guidelines to follow.

we just can't start pointing to people we think are mentally ill and force some form of care on them.

and armed guards concern me for the fact of how the police is already, undertrained and some are corrupt, this is not what i want to have around children.

[Wickabee]

I think it's more the over medication of young people. It's amazing how many youth are prescribed medication for conditions that were rare a decade ago.
Is all this medication necessary? If not are the doctors to blame or the pharmaceutical companies? Is it paranoid parents at fault?

Who knows. We can't even agree on what the problem is. For every person to bring a potential cause to the table, there's three to point out another potential cause. Why not wise up and realize there is no one cause, but a lot of causes. The most horrific acts imaginable caused by only lack of gun control or only the state of mental health care? Not likely. A problem that comes from a little bit of everything needs to be fixed with a little bit of everything.

[shrewsbury]

I think a ban would work on honest people, not criminals or insane people