I don’t want to live in a country where an armed guard is necessary for my kids to go to school safely. Moreover one armed guard isn’t sufficient. Should we arm the kids next??? This is insanity. It’s guns. It’s choosing to live in a state of warfare vs. peace.

Read the second amendment. “Well regulated” are words that do not mean anything goes.

The disconnect is unreal. It’s the I assume it will not matter to me, take NRA money, look the other way, move on. It’s just 21 families I don’t know and don’t care about.

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Schools now HAVE 211 Billion unspent covid dollars. Let’s see if some of that can be used to get a highly trained armed guard in every public school that wants one. It could even be a veteran or retired cop. Why not?

Look, there is a good opportunity here to score political points by focusing on gun control. Don't ruin it by talking about other solutions.

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Anonymous wrote:Um, criminals will ALWAYS get a way to commit “mass” murder. They do NOT obey laws.

No, they actually don’t. That’s why other countries don’t have these mass murder problems. Because they are stopped.

Criminals in other countries actually get serious consequences. American criminals these days are largely protected from harsh consequences. How about you address that?

Does Ted Cruz's children go to a school where guns are banned?

Anonymous wrote:Um, criminals will ALWAYS get a way to commit “mass” murder. They do NOT obey laws.

So we have to get rid of guns and ammunition.

Anonymous wrote:Um, criminals will ALWAYS get a way to commit “mass” murder. They do NOT obey laws.

No, they actually don’t. That’s why other countries don’t have these mass murder problems. Because they are stopped.

Let's send the children of Republican families to schools where students and teachers who can legally possess guns carry them at all times.

Um, criminals will ALWAYS get a way to commit “mass” murder. They do NOT obey laws.

Can states require that ammunition/bullets be prohibitively expensive with no shipment to other states? Is there stuff that can be done by some states to try and protect? It’s obviously not a fleshed out idea. I just feel like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks at this point.

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Schools now HAVE 211 Billion unspent covid dollars. Let’s see if some of that can be used to get a highly trained armed guard in every public school that wants one. It could even be a veteran or retired cop. Why not?

Sounds great! Just so long as it's still incredibly easy to buy assault weapons and extended clips the mass shooter community is all in!

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Schools now HAVE 211 Billion unspent covid dollars. Let’s see if some of that can be used to get a highly trained armed guard in every public school that wants one. It could even be a veteran or retired cop. Why not?

Let's use that money to buy back guns. There are case studies to show that buy back gun programs work.
Do you have any studies that show that armed guards at school protect children? Remember Parkland had an officer who fled the scene. Lot of help he was.

Schools now HAVE 211 Billion unspent covid dollars. Let’s see if some of that can be used to get a highly trained armed guard in every public school that wants one. It could even be a veteran or retired cop. Why not?

Too bad if the gun industry can't sell that crap anymore. We got rid of a lot of the tabacco industry, the asbestos industry, etc. We learn our lessons and move against the dangerous products.

Anonymous wrote:Respectfully, what change in gun laws would have been effective in stopping this terrible event? Please keep in mind the 2nd amendment which, however inconvenient, is applicable.

Up the age of legal purchase to 21.
Require background checks.
Require a note from a physician.
Require interviews with neighbors and family members.
Require the passing of a psychiatric exam.
Require gun owners to purchase insurance on guns.
Ban sales of hollow point bullets.
Ban the sale of assault rifles.

Anonymous wrote:Respectfully, what change in gun laws would have been effective in stopping this terrible event? Please keep in mind the 2nd amendment which, however inconvenient, is applicable.

Background Checks
Waiting Periods
Minimum age (25)
Ban on assault rifles
Psychiatric evaluation
Licensing and training required

Keep in mind that an amendment does not give everyone free reign. We have freedom of speech, yet you can’t say you’re going to bomb an airplane. We have freedom of religion, yet you can’t perform human sacrifices, even on willing participants.

The second amendment was ratified in 1791, when they had absolutely zero concept of what firearms would morph into. There is zero reason for any civilian to have assault rifles.