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- Nov 11, 2016
Why are there big vaults at banks? Won't criminals just go hit the stop&rob down the street? Well, maybe, but they won't get nearly as much money- or, in this case, attention. These lunatics want to make as big a splash as possible and kids are how you do that. They are also much more vulnerable in a school than people in most settings. Kids aren't able to fight back.Effectively secure schools and the schizos will just go shoot up different places. They want to shock, scare and hurt and if they couldn't go for children they'd go for the next best thing they could think of, like I dunno, a retirement home, wherever vulnerable people gather.
Then what would be the solution, increasing the security in those different places too to cope with living in fear of killing sprees?
Well it's as some posters have said earlier though, the solution would be attempting to address the root of the problem, but the root is kept strong and healthy by those with the power to poison it in the first place.
And after schools, maybe we should talk about other places, as needed, to protect the vulnerable. It's not the solution but it's a mitigating measure. It doesn't take much. These cops went in there and dispatched the gunman in a few scant minutes. If she hadn't been able to get through the big glass doors in seconds, might lives have been saved? Maybe. Maybe the next time.
Again, we have security in so many places already. You better believe politicians make sure they have armed security nearby. Hospitals increasingly have metal detectors and armed guards. Reporters are using more and more security. So why is it only when it comes to schools that it suddenly becomes too much to think about how to make them more difficult for some nutcase to get into?