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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the metal detectors and more security.  Enough is enough and we need to do better to keep our kids safe.  It sucks it has to turn into more of a prison but better safe.[/quote]

Oh great, and then you'll have crowds of kids lining up to enter school.  The shooters can just get them there.  They can shoot into the crowd without even having to enter the building.[/quote]

Exactly - this is all security theater.

Same thing at Nats games - they create this artificial crowd of people who would make a great target - as if someone out to inflict damage would care if it is inside or outside the gates.[/quote]

Let me guess - liberal?

I WANT gun control. 100%. But why don't liberals EVER get that even a partial solution is better than NO solution? You can gun down people the same way outdoors than you can in an enclosed classroom -- bc people will running in every which direction whereas in a class, it's sitting ducks with no place to go. So yeah -- there's a reason that security folks are pulling security check points out further and further from airports, stadiums etc. to keep the person from ever getting inside where there is 0 chance of escape and a whole lot of bullets being sprayed.

And again it is NOT a perfect solution (that would be no guns) BUT is it better to say "oh well that's not perfect, let's not do anything and just wait for gun control even if that takes 50 more years or never happens; in the meantime we'll just keep stating our outrage over and over."[/quote]

I understand and often make the "perfect should not be the enemy of the good" argument.

But this is not even a good argument or progress or protecting anyone.

And you are making a perverse version of it.

We shouldn't try to control guns but should satisfy ourselves that a shooter guns down 15 kids at the crowded entrance to a school with metal detectors instead of 20 inside?

I don't expect to get gun control in this country - ever - even though the Supreme Court has actually made it clear it is in fact allowed.

But this security theater nonsense plays into the NRA's narrative - that it isn't guns that are the problem but that we need more armed security or whatever - all of which involves spending more money on guns and police etc which is exactly what they want and nets us next to nothing.[/quote]

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