Why do we have schools that do not have protection to prevent intruders? Been in a bank lately or tried to get into Fort Knox? What makes them more special than our children? Would you trade one of your children for anything in any one of them?
Presently school protection construction plans are available that offer bullet proof glass, capture rooms that isolate a shooter from class rooms and will not allow the shooter to leave as the door locks behind them. In addition to the capture room, a protection room or area that would protect a secretary or law enforcement officer who greets the public are available.
Why not take the money that is presently available and that has not been spent to modify every school in America? Is my child or yours not worth it? This is not a gun issue, it is how much do we value our children.
How many banks or federal buildings can you carry a gun into? None that I know of.
What do they have in there that is of greater value than your child? Stop it now! Call your Senator or Congressman.
let me think... Hundreds of thousands of schools with millions of doors and windows, many of those schools lacking updated technology, and the time it would take to "harden" those schools after manufacturers create all the windows/doors/etc for the "hardening," versus PASSING "WELL-REGULATED" GUN SAFETY LAWS now... Give me the laws NOW!
If we all agree in hardening the schools than why not start there? You want to start by waiting on legislation to make gun laws? Laws that criminals don't follow? There approx 400 million guns out there in the United States and if even 25% have been privately sold means 100 million guns that authorities would have trouble tracking down. How does anyone propose going after guns? Is this just the new left wing way to get rid of cops? Instead of defunding them just send them people's houses to steal their guns? You all do realize that most cops lean right and are gun owners themselves? And they do have brains and think for themselves they are not slaves to the government like other countries.
We are going to harden the schools with left over Covid money. We may see them raise the age to 21 for ar15s and we may see some reg flag laws and that is all that's going to pass. So let's harden the schools now.
Sic’ Trumps ICE thugs on the assault firearms gun owners ! You know they are getting restless now since they can’t hunt innocent non citizens, seeking asylum, taking their children from them and putting them in cages! “Raise the bar” for the hunt , ICE will luv it ! They can wrestle those military assault weapons from the civilian assassins hands easily, since the civilian assassins only attack unarmed children. These civilian assassins will grovel on the ground when they see “ ICE “coming at em’! You can bet $ on that !
These ideas for strengthening protections at schools aren't bad, but they need to first be predicated on raising the minimum age that all guns can be bought to at least 21 years, requiring background checks on every gun purchase, requiring every gun be registered (which would essentially outlaw the ones you can assemble at home, and establish proper "red flag" protocols for all areas of society so that anyone who has sense that someone could be harmful is able to call authorities and report those individuals and they'll be investigated fully. Got to start with these ideas and then looking at building codes of schools afterward.
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let me think... Hundreds of thousands of schools with millions of doors and windows, many of those schools lacking updated technology, and the time it would take to "harden" those schools after manufacturers create all the windows/doors/etc for the "hardening," versus PASSING "WELL-REGULATED" GUN SAFETY LAWS now... Give me the laws NOW!
Passing laws does nothing! Is it not illegal to shoot random kids? Does that stop people? It's not that hard to lock doors
If we all agree in hardening the schools than why not start there? You want to start by waiting on legislation to make gun laws? Laws that criminals don't follow? There approx 400 million guns out there in the United States and if even 25% have been privately sold means 100 million guns that authorities would have trouble tracking down. How does anyone propose going after guns? Is this just the new left wing way to get rid of cops? Instead of defunding them just send them people's houses to steal their guns? You all do realize that most cops lean right and are gun owners themselves? And they do have brains and think for themselves they are not slaves to the government like other countries.
We are going to harden the schools with left over Covid money. We may see them raise the age to 21 for ar15s and we may see some reg flag laws and that is all that's going to pass. So let's harden the schools now.
Sic’ Trumps ICE thugs on the assault firearms gun owners ! You know they are getting restless now since they can’t hunt innocent non citizens, seeking asylum, taking their children from them and putting them in cages! “Raise the bar” for the hunt , ICE will luv it ! They can wrestle those military assault weapons from the civilian assassins hands easily, since the civilian assassins only attack unarmed children. These civilian assassins will grovel on the ground when they see “ ICE “coming at em’! You can bet $ on that !
These ideas for strengthening protections at schools aren't bad, but they need to first be predicated on raising the minimum age that all guns can be bought to at least 21 years, requiring background checks on every gun purchase, requiring every gun be registered (which would essentially outlaw the ones you can assemble at home, and establish proper "red flag" protocols for all areas of society so that anyone who has sense that someone could be harmful is able to call authorities and report those individuals and they'll be investigated fully. Got to start with these ideas and then looking at building codes of schools afterward.
Just take their guns away .
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