My daughter is a junior, so she's almost done, and she goes to private, but colleges are at risk also. For people with younger kids it has to be on your mind, worrying you constantly.
Why were there no shootings when I was in school? What has changed? It would have been so much easier back then. Schools were wide open, zero security anywhere in or around the school. Looking back on it now, someone could have easily walked in any school at anytime, shot as many people as he wanted to, then walked out, drove off and maybe even get away with it completely. It would depend on how long he stayed and how fast someone called 911 and the police got there.
But it never happened. Ever. Why not? The answer is simple, nobody wanted to kill a bunch of kids. Now a lot of people do. What has changed? It seems we are trying to fix the problem by stopping people who want to murder as many kids as possible from being able to do it. But to me, the problem isn't that they can pull it off, the problem is that they want to do it in the first place.
People have been mentally ill forever. People have been evil forever. But nobody ever wanted to shoot school kids until recently. Why? If you can find the answer to that question you can fix the problem, if you can't you will it. You can mitigate it with security, guns, mental health screening, and all the other ideas for "fixes" but you can't fix it. And by the looks of things you will fail to mitigate it as well.
Anybody got any ideas what the answer is?
And I know, square bored.
Why were there no shootings when I was in school? What has changed? It would have been so much easier back then. Schools were wide open, zero security anywhere in or around the school. Looking back on it now, someone could have easily walked in any school at anytime, shot as many people as he wanted to, then walked out, drove off and maybe even get away with it completely. It would depend on how long he stayed and how fast someone called 911 and the police got there.
But it never happened. Ever. Why not? The answer is simple, nobody wanted to kill a bunch of kids. Now a lot of people do. What has changed? It seems we are trying to fix the problem by stopping people who want to murder as many kids as possible from being able to do it. But to me, the problem isn't that they can pull it off, the problem is that they want to do it in the first place.
People have been mentally ill forever. People have been evil forever. But nobody ever wanted to shoot school kids until recently. Why? If you can find the answer to that question you can fix the problem, if you can't you will it. You can mitigate it with security, guns, mental health screening, and all the other ideas for "fixes" but you can't fix it. And by the looks of things you will fail to mitigate it as well.
Anybody got any ideas what the answer is?
And I know, square bored.
