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The shooting in Texas was eye opening, and we should learn a number of things from it.
The biggest thing we should learn is that armed officers are clearly not a solution. We had an armed officer in Florida, who was completely ineffective. In Texas we had two armed officers, and if I understand correctly they engaged the shooter for over thirty minutes. People watch way too much TV and think a good guy with a gun can quickly dispatch a bad guy with a gun, and it just doesn't work that way. Armed officers is a response to the problem, not a solution. But the time armed officers are aware of the situation it's too late.
Locking down schools isn't going to be a solution either. You can lock it down so that there is only one way in, through a metal detector and an armed guard and... All a gunman would need to do is show up when school lets out and hundreds and hundreds of kids are trying to get into hundreds of cars while the parking lot is at a standstill because of gridlock.
The ONLY solutions here is handling the mental health crisis and a massive reduction of firearms.
Until then this will continue.
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