From a friend of mine on the east coast.... His words.

The first link is me explaining why school shootings won't be stopped.

http://www.criticalstop.com/on-school-shootings.pdf

The second link is me being right about it.

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2018/05/bloomfield_schools_will_hire_armed_officers_for_it.html

I think those on the right who have given this much thought already know this to be true. The left also know this but this doesn't stop them from using a crisis to push their agenda the end goal of which is to repeal the second amendment by slowly chipping away at it little by little until nothing is left. Pointing to firearm accessibility as the culprit in school shootings is a lot easier than pointing to failures in parenting, violence portrayed in the media, laws which protect immorality, that embrace mediocrity and inclusiveness rather than superiority and excellence, etc. The problem I see is that the right play into this line of thinking and propose countermeasures that are equally in vain such as placing metal detectors and armed guards in every school. The fact that guns were more readily available 50 years ago than they are today shows that guns are not the culprit and that people are. Guns haven't changed; people have. Guns don't rise up and shoot people; people do.

Putting armed guards in schools turns them into prisons

Banning guns doesn't affect criminals who don't care about laws

The right and the left are avoiding the discussion of why things are getting worse every day by playing to the prejudices of their respective bases. Typical.

Eventually the cognitive dissonance will reach a breaking point and people will finally begin to accept the horrifying realization that we now live in a 3rd world country owned by a handful of billionaires and America will never be great again. Until then it's reasonable to expect our national mental health to continue on it's steep decline fed by a steady diet of denial and absurdity. 

Putting armed guards in schools turns them into prisons

Banning guns doesn't affect criminals who don't care about laws

The right and the left are avoiding the discussion of why things are getting worse every day by playing to the prejudices of their respective bases. Typical.

Eventually the cognitive dissonance will reach a breaking point and people will finally begin to accept the horrifying realization that we now live in a 3rd world country owned by a handful of billionaires and America will never be great again. Until then it's reasonable to expect our national mental health to continue on it's steep decline fed by a steady diet of denial and absurdity.

Have you ever been to prison?  I think you are exaggerating this to extreme proportions.

We live in a dangerous world. The US has never been an exception.  Some cities are safer than others, but none are immune from violence.

NYC has been doing a good job reducing crime, and the city is tough on gun ownership.  None of that matters when airliners start ramming into buildings.

Putting armed guards in schools turns them into prisons

While I don’t have kids, I’m all for armed personnel at schools. Like many things in life, there are appropriate ways to go about things. Taking anything to extremes isn’t good.  Your posts usually seem to take an extreme perspective.