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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn’t help anyway. All evidence suggests resource officers don’t want to engage active shooters. So we don’t need them - waste of money.[/quote]

Then use police officers.[/quote]

Police weren't much help in this case, were they?

One of my good friends is a police officer. He says it's divided: half of the officers say they would wait around as they did in Texas to form a plan and wait for additional backup. The other half say no, you swore an oath, you go in there even if you are going to die because at least it gives the people you are sworn to protect a chance.

I'm not willing to take that 50/50 gamble with my children's lives. Are you?[/quote]

This is illogical.

You actually are saying, like in an active shooter situation, YOU DONT WANT POLICE????  YOU WOULDNT CALL FREAKING 9-1-1?????  Who would you call - Ghostbusters?  Social worker?

Please, walk me through who will respond to an active shooter situation in your world.  Who would be the person to handle it?  Or would you suggest everybody just pray and do nothing while a shooter mows down kids[/quote]

What’s illogical about it?

People are saying instead of gun reform, we just need armed security and police officers in schools.

But we now know that many of those police and guards won’t do anything in the event of a shooter. Many will bail or just wait around, as was the case in Texas.

I’m not sure where you got the idea I wouldn’t call 9-1-1. I said I don’t think police officers in schools are a solution, because most are proving to be useless.

The answer is gun reform. Our children will be safer when people don’t have access to these guns, not when we put armed police in schools. [/quote]

Imagine kids cant buy any guns anymore.  Teen boy grabs daddy's AR-15 or glock and walks up to a school to commit a school shooting.  Do you want police there?    [/quote]

“More guns” isn’t scalable. Police aren’t equipped to deal with an endless supply of mass murderers.

We need:
Fewer guns
Less devastating guns (no HC magazine, etc)
More tracking & control over guns
More responsibility for gun owners (training, gun safes, liability)
More counselors in schools to support at-risk kids
More mental health care
Well-trained police force 
Tools for LEO to fight gun trafficking 
Less dark money in politics (might be the only way to get above)

All of this takes money. I’m ok paying more in taxes if we are getting effective, valuable services. 
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