Schools are nothing more than publicly funded daycare centers.
My wife works at the local High School. It is a large suburban High School. Between 3,000 and 4,000 students. There is not even a line item in the schools budget for security. No cameras, no guards at doors, no metal detectors, etc. Anyone can walk up and right in the front door and roam around. And of course, it is a posted gun free zone. They are so anti-gun, my son almost got expelled one time because he had an empty casing he carried in his pocket from his grandfathers 21 gun salute.
Is it any wonder maniacs target schools? The kids are sitting ducks.
Oddly enough, the other day I browsed through an antique store nearby and came across a collection of old LIFE magazines. One from about November 1954 had a little feature on the very busy hunting season that took place in northern Michigan that autumn. There were photos and comments on how numerous boys from the local high schools participated and one can imagine that no eyebrows were raised whatsoever concerning something like that. Really takes your breath away to read a story about the type of trouble your son earned for such a non thing and compare it with that LIFE magazine story from all of those years ago.