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To: Tax-chick

Obviously, there will have to be some type of support for it. My point is that it takes police at least 5 minutes to respond to a shooting minimum (usually more like 10 minutes).. To stop the shooting, I believe that schools have to be made hard targets. To do that on a federal level would cost billions. The cheapest would be to allow trained teachers (preferably with their own weapons) to respond immediately, or even better, act as a deterrent to would be shooters.) The alternative is to do nothing, and allow the carnage to continue. I have spent much time in Israel, and the students are protected everywhere by armed escorts . Teachers, soldiers, armed citizens, etc. It is true that they have spent enormous amounts of their wealth for this purpose because they are fighting terror. It seems to me that we also have terrorism, but we are fighting with what? After each of these shootings, the call for disarming Americans and doing away with the 2nd Amendment is greater. Soon, we will be forced to do something to prevent our schools,churches, (soft targets) from being attacked. The alternative that I suggest is the cheapest (in my humble opinion).


54 posted on 02/22/2018 2:56:17 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: richardtavor

I think a variety of sensible proposals have been made. However, all of them run up against institutions that have demonstrated, over and over, that they are not very interested in changes that would result in better outcomes for the “pupil personnel,” whether those outcomes are academic, social, or life-and-death.

However, it is always possible that the public will say, “Enough!” and demand change from the schools. Not probable, based on history and the current trajectory, but possible.


57 posted on 02/22/2018 3:09:31 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The societal moronization ... is profound and terrifying." ~Mark Steyn)
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