Ian wrote:Gallstones wrote:
Another illustration about how it isn't the violence of guns that anti-gun nuts object to.
Hypocrites.
Y'know what's really distasteful? How all the pro-gun people (and by pro-gun I mean anyone who thinks US gun control laws are restrictive enough as it is) are griping about how all the anti-gun people are coldly using tragedies like this to advance their own set of beliefs. That is short-sighted to the point of inhumanity. The reason many of us who are in favor of stricter gun control speak about it so much at times like this is
because times like this happen so much. Incidents like this are not used to
exploit our ideology; they are a major
source of our ideology. Get it?
Actually, they are relatively rare. More kids are killed yearly in auto accidents and at least 10 other causes than are killed in mass shootings.
It's only remarkable because it was perpetrated by a person and they all died at once.
And yes, the anti-gun people are coldly and calculatedly using this tragedy to forward their anti-gun agenda. They do it ever single time.
What the dumb fuckers don't do is demand that the federal government spend some of that "Race to the Trough" money funding security improvements in schools.
Some examples:
Sally-ports/foyers made of bulletproof materials that automatically lock the person in once the enter the first set of doors combined with a system that requires a school representative to
get up off their fat, lazy asses and actually go to the door, identify the individual, make sure he/she isn't armed, and manually unlock the door to let them in.
It appears at this point (and there's little evidence in yet) that the killer was let in by staff because they recognized him using the video camera in the foyer, but they did NOT take the time to actually look him over, see that he was wearing combat dress and a vest, and NOT let him in. Also, so far I've heard that the semi-automatic rifle he had he left IN HIS CAR, probably because he was afraid he couldn't conceal it and would not be able to get in the door, so it appears he used concealed handguns instead.
Schools should be designed with bullet-proof partitions that can be closed with the push of a button from the office or any classroom that will partition off the school into small "pods", each of which must have an external escape route. With such partitions, a killer can be contained to a small part of the school and will be unable to roam at will. This will limit his ability to get to students.
Hallways and classroom doors should be required to be built of bullet-resistant materials, armored to a Level IIIA or Level IV NIJ rating, and all classroom doors should have double top and bottom locking deadbolts and EXTERNAL ESCAPE pathways. Think of a shopping mall where customers (students and teachers) circulate in the front, but behind the stores there is a hallway that is closed off and not used except for deliveries and fire escape. Schools should be built the same way, so that a teacher can lock the bulletproof door (or all of them can be electrically locked from the office at once) which at the same time pops open a concealed escape route separate from the internal hallways.
Next, a select cadre of teachers should be tactically trained and should carry concealed handguns while on duty. In addition, there should be gun lockers in each "pod" that contain several sets of body armor and a couple of shotguns that only teachers and staff can access (perhaps fingerpring or iris biometric locks) so that teachers can arm themselves in such situations.
But the most important thing is that school staff and teachers have to give up the fantasy land fiction that "it can't happen here" and get over their predominantly liberal, hoplophobe attitudes about firearms and security and do what is necessary to protect the children, even if they don't like the idea of thinking about it and having to react to such situations.
Yes, it's expensive, but what is a child's life worth. All those billions of dollars given away by Obama in the Race to the Trough would have been better spent securing every school in the US to a much greater degree than they are now.
And, lest it pass unnoticed, once again, for the umpteenth time, the only person in the room with a gun was the bad guy. If that teacher had been armed, it might have been a different story. The killing was over before the police even arrived, which once again proves conclusively that when someone starts shooting things up, you simply don't have time to wait for the police, you have to be prepared (and armed) to do something RIGHT FUCKING NOW or you're going to die.
And once again I'm saddened by the fact that I wasn't in the building with my legally-carried handgun at the time, because things would have gone differently. Oh, wait, even in Colorado, where concealed carry is lawful, one of the few places that I CANNOT lawfully carry my handgun is a K-12 school. Imagine that...a "gun free zone" is, once again and very predictably, the location of a mass killing by an insane gunman.
You anti-gun nuts are unbelievably stupid you know. You think you can just get rid of all the guns, but that cannot and will not happen, and you're too stupid or too ideologically blind to acknowledge that what's needed is MORE GUNS in schools...in the hands of trustworthy, qualified staff and faculty, who are the ONLY PEOPLE in a position to respond in time to prevent such events.
Doesn't matter whether you like or hate guns, this is simply a fact of life you need to integrate and learn to live with. Regardless of gun policy in general, we need ARMED INDIVIDUALS in our schools who can intervene to save lives in these type of situations. Period. End of story.
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