My solution involves a little bit of everything. I'm not against the idea of guards in schools, but it would have be done right. By that I mean every person in there would have to be well trained. There is no point in just putting some old retired dude in a school. It would involve reviving the mental health system to provide for more rigorous evaluation and make intervention easier when the family will not act. It would involve more restrictive sales of ammo to legal gun owners. It would require mandatory gun safety classes to be a legal owner. It would outlaw sales of weapons that have no purpose other than as mass killing machines. I would also be for moving firearm jurisdiction from the ATF to the FTC. That's it. And I'm not suggesting that all violence would magically disappear. My goal is simply to reduce the numbers and limit the potential carnage from any single event. Notice I didn't mention denying anyone the right to own and carry handguns, rifles or shotguns. Only the most radical lefty thinks that makes any sense. And all of the above costs money. Will people pay higher taxes after tax revolts cutting teacher salaries and police layoffs? I think it's time to quit guarding Afghanistan and every other Western hating nation and start protecting our own.
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