People are forced by law to have their kids in schools where those responsible should be responsible rather than fatalistic. When they talk about wanting to make sure some oddball kid isn't bullied, they talk being "proactive". When it comes to considering how to defend the lives of the children they are responsible for, though, everyone becomes fatalistic. Schools that are responsible for children who are there in compliance with the law should at least not be very clearly the easiest target for anyone who goes insane and wants to murder a crowd.
Your average nutcase might still target children on a playground as has been done or otherwise target a specific school for a reason. More often than not, though, these things are done by those are not in the same league as dedicated killers intent on doing whatever they have to in order to take out a specific target and who may even relish being confronted.
Even Columbine where there was advance planning would have required a much greater degree of dedication had the perps known they would be confronted by multiple armed adults who had been trained to protect rather than maybe trained how to evacuate.
There will always be people in groups in ways that make them an easy target but that in no way excuses the places where people are forced to leave their children being the easiest targets because those who are responsible forgo any means to resist an armed assailant.
To me, this sort of thing is direct result of a debauching of the culture advocated by the very persons who will now seek to disarm us, to protect us from the very thing that they have created.
The answer to all of this is not a police state. The added security you point to in you post is just another step in the advancement of that. Adams and Jefferson were right. A free society is based in morality. Something that has been driven to the margins in the present day.
Think back to when you were in kindergarten, while for myself it was a half century ago, I do recall the openness of the school building in as much as the doors were unlocked
and unmonitored during the school day.
Fast forward 50 years and we need to have armed guards posted in our schools?
What has become of the morality of our nation?
Why is there this need for those who are unhappy to kill 20-30 people and then kill themselves? If you’re a miserable POS and you want to kill yourself, then you can have right at it. Why do you need to take others with you?
It goes back to the narcissistic culture that has been created by the leftards and the communists in the democRAT party. They have created a pressure cooker society where the weakest amongst us lash out to destroy others in their despair of their inability to navigate the world.
I fear that the communists have won. I don’t think that what once was is recoverable.