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[quote=Anonymous]Can't do much about this stuff as hindsight 20/20.  Before this happened, despite warnings, signs, nothing happened you know?  I'm fairly certain that statistically speaking, FBI gets a lot of call ins from nutjobs and a lot of mentally unstable people are making threats in various situations.  All you can do is investigate but unless there is undeniable evidence suggesting something will be happening fairly immediately, what can you actually do legally?  If you give power to be able to do something in all these cases - and let's face it human beings are not infallible either way in preventing or paranoia - havoc would ensue.

I think the only answer from a practical perspective is ensure that those who own guns or anything that is capable of hurting so many esp kids in school, are unable to do so.  That means if you get a permit - you get a permit after everyone in your household receives training and goes through a background check.  I mean, simply guaranteeing that it's locked up from kids just isn't sufficient.  Whether the parents are responsible or not, a teen can get to weapons in the house if they are really that disturbed and want to.  They live in a house with multiple weapons - we just can't have these "accidents" happen to the public.

The other thing is it seems like the shooter didn't shoot up his actual classroom because it was locked.  He went for the open classroom.  Maybe there's a rather simple idea of figuring out how to ensure locked classrooms are the norm in all schools?  Sure you can shoot yourself in I suppose but making it harder to get in is a deterrent psychologically.  Buys time as well.  It's not 100% solution of course but could limit casualties.  It is an easier fix it seems like than a lot of other ideas floating.  For anyone who needs to leave the room, it doesn't seem to be that hard an issue and most people don't bring the gun into the classroom - they have to go out to get it or it's in their locker or etc.  The point is, it's not on them because it's so hard to hide a larger weapon on you.  [/quote]

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