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Maybe put metal detectors/bag scanner at building entrances, especially for schools.
Schools started doing that back when I was still in school (early 00s.) It doesn’t seem to have slowed school gun violence down, though it probably helps kids prepare for the school-prison pipeline.
Maybe school system is the problem
anything but the guns
Anything but the people who use the guns in a violent manner.
as opposed how guns are meant to use, in a cuddly, soft touching manner
I personally prefer target practice with them. I used to hunt my own meat though (still took it to a butcher for the tedious part of it.) If someone is threatening my life or my family's lives, then I don't intend on using it in a soft or touching manner. This has happened a few times, twice with friends, we pulled our guns out and the armed robbers ran off so no bullets had to get exchanged thankfully. But had we not had them, we would have just had to give up our wallets or die I guess shrug. One time one of them did chase one of our friends down and curb-stomped his teeth/face to death.. we found him and rushed to the ER. I still have pictures of his bloody face and broken teeth from that wonderful event. He was the only one without a firearm at the time unfortunately.
Do you think that hasn't been happening around the country already for the last couple decades already?
That just means the detector attendant is the first casualty.
Those don't work well for two reasons:
The shooter can simply shoot the lone guard manning the metal detector. Schools don't have the resources to station a full SWAT team all day long at the front entrance.
An accomplice can open an emergency exit and let a gunman in through a side door. You need to have emergency exits for any public building.
Metal detectors are not as useful as one might think. They'll catch a kid who thinks it's OK to carry a gun around as an everyday carry item (think gang activity), but they don't stop actual school shooters. They can be useful to keep gang violence out of schools, but they won't stop mass shooter incidents.
I don't think that's the easiest solution to this
WE NEED DOOR REFORM
I feel like this is a reference to something
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/latest-school-shooting-ted-cruz-focuses-doors-rcna30630
Whatever works you know
yeah but you could just restrict gun access and that would work fine
With Trump around, might need the guns soon.