Posted on 12/11/2013 2:10:19 PM PST by Carriage Hill
Full Title: "Newtown anniversary: US schools keep trying wrong fixes to deter school shootings, experts say."
It happened after Columbine, after Virginia Tech, and after Newtown, too. After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers. Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.
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Like rats and maggots to a carcass, they descended on that town a year ago, and will be staying and milking it for all they can, for as long as they can.
LOL!
It is kinda hard to get a gun out of a duffle bag, quickly, too.
You call good guys with guns to stop bad guys with guns - and they stop the bad guys by using guns. Folks need to cut out the middleman and do the stopping themselves - and schools need to allow their personnel to have the tools.
The SWAT team at Columbine waited over 2 hours before entering the school.
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I can think of two potential problems with that approach. First, in an enclosed space like a schoolroom, with climate control blowing air around, bear spray could incapacitate more than just the intended target. Just people spraying regular pepper spray in crowded rooms has led to trampling deaths before.
Also, if it was known that we were arming school staff with bear spray, a school shooter would probably just bring a gas mask.
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