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Originally Posted by Rochard
Last year my wife and I were picking up my daughter at her high school for lunch. We were in my Jeep in the parking lot in the first row, and we were watching my daughter walk through the grass between the office and the parking lot when shots rang out. I am a Marine, I own firearms; I know what gunshots sound like. My daughter looked at us with this puzzling look. Five or six seconds later the school announcement system went on saying the school was on emergency lock down. My kid just froze dead in her tracks not knowing what to do.
Nothing will put the fear of god in a parent more than this situation.
It turns out it was a police shooting at a fast food restaurant a few blocks away.
Something needs to be done here. It's so much more than protecting kids in school. It's people in shopping malls, at the movies, at church....
Security at schools is not the answer. If I recall correctly the Sandy Hook Elementary School had advanced security protocols in place. The only way to be admitted into the school was after a visual and ID screening through a video monitor. The gunman got past that and shot everyone in the office. My kid's middle school has a similar system with a huge metal fence around the school but anyone can pull their car right up to the fence, climb on the car, and jump right over it.
There are simple solutions to this. The first step is outlawing assault rifles that shoot 180 rounds per minute, such as the AR15 does. NO ONE outside of the military needs to shoot 180 rounds per minute.
There is so much more we can do also. We can restrict firearms to people over twenty-one years of age - if we cannot trust them to drink responsibly, we shouldn't trust them to own firearms. Anyone on a terrorist watch list should not be able to own a firearm - this is common sense. We need to fix our mental health system and people such as this nineteen year old kid can get help, and make it free. We need better screening, more restrictions on purchasing firearms, and so forth.
Something needs to be done.
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I'm not really tuned into the gun debates. the reality is this a new world and it is a new dangerous would. all public areas now need to be guarded. central areas of the cites where people can walk need to be protected from cars running thought them... that's the new reality Richard, and you know what? my daughter is a school teacher okay? like 2nd or 3rd grade maybe, so I might have more vested interest in this than you? I'm not sure but as we are both parents, email your repesentives like I did.
tell then time for talk is over. every news conference about gun regulation and schools is a nail in the coffin of some kid. all that talk is just exciting to the assholes, on both side but NOTHING is getting done! time is killing kids.
save the kids first and foremost THEN enjoy yourself arguing with a bunch assholes for brownie point... gezz what a bunch of tools. I don't want my daughter to be killed because it was fun for a bunch of jerksoffs to get on TV
how do you land on that? send an email? tell your friends, fuck the wall, guard the schools! there ya go a ready made slogan! anytime wasted not guarding the kids is killing a kid... you see that? you said you were a marine, think in military terms of target vulnerability with the certainty of an attack, just not when... you see? this is serious shit lol