“What we NEED is school control...Backround checks for all prospective students and their families, mandatory school safety certifications to be renewed every year, random home inspections, etc”
Spent much time with Hitler I see.
Godwin’s law says I win.
If you’re going to infringe on someone rights, wouldn’t it be better to infringe on a pretend right (TRT an education), rather than a real one (TRT keep and bear arms).
OK, you establish all those checks, then run them on students, and 98% of them fail every single test. Now what? Can we change the past so that the background check can be fixed? Will we fit students with "better parents" assuming that anyone in this world would be crazy enough to adopt them?
In the past, in societies that were free of social engineering, such kids (and then people) were left alone, to mingle with others like them and live as they can. The remaining 2% did the same, but on their own level. But now a timid, smart kid has to coexist with a violent and possibly somewhat insane kid.
It's much easier to declare a classless society than actually create one. The experience of USSR tells us that it's just not possible, regardless of how much you pour into education and propaganda. Those things are largely defined by our genes, and very few people can overcome their natural instincts.