How to fix school shootings

The answer isn’t to ban assault rifles! The answer is simple you hire retired army vets for every public and private school in America. You heavily arm these army vets and I guarantee you won’t have another school shooting.

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Graylight · 51-55, F

In related news, overnight a fireworks factory exploded into a great fireball visible for miles. Area fire battalions responded quickly by dousing the explosion with gasoline and striking a bevy of matches. An exemplary instance of fighting fire with fire.

Next up, we’ll look at how removing sand from local beaches is helping curb erosion at the shoreline….

You didn’t grow up in an armed school. Neither did I and times are not that different today. It’s that we’ve lost our ever-loving minds on gun regulation and control. When we decide human life is too high a price for personal freedoms 98% of people will never even use, then the death will stop. (And speaking from experience, I wouldn’t trust the average Army vet with a rifle in a field 6 acres long.)

robb65 · 56-60, M

@Graylight When I was in school half the trucks in the parking lot had guns hanging in the gun racks and all the guys (and several of the girls) had a knife in their pocket. Students didn't shoot up schools because they felt someone had done them wrong. Maybe there was an occasional fist fight but even then the knives stayed in their pockets. Something changed and it isn't the guns. Here's a 28 year old woman who was apparently upset about attending this private school so she shoots her way in and kills kids who weren't even born when she was a student there. But lets pretend it has nothing to do with her being fucked in the head, and that every other school shooting involved someone who was in some way fucked in the head.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@robb65 Did you grow up out west or in Canada? I ask because much of the west has that sensibility. Some rural places here. A gun is ubiquitous and understood to be just as dangerous as it is. But they can be tools weapons of defense against wildlife, a hunting tool.

We have too many guns in too many irresponsible hands, to be sure. But you’re right; there’s a disconnect somewhere. Most of these shooting cases (and believe the stats, school shootings are just the glimmer, not the norm) are issues of mental health and external pressures. We make fun commercials with celebrities about mental health, we talk respectfully and affirmingly upon hearing about a friend’s family trouble with mental health, we hold events and designate special months to it; we have an infinite number of meds to counteract whatever everyone is simply diagnosing for themselves after watching a few TikToks.

Mental health in this country is a punch line and the more we ignore it while at the same time adding more and more pressure to the average citizen, the more incidents like this are going to happen. An incident like this represents no more holding space, no more reserve and no relief. Nothing has to ever get that bad. It’s just that as long as it doesn’t happen to us, it sits on the back burner. We’d much rather argue about who’s dementia is worse.

robb65 · 56-60, M

@Graylight The south. We've always had people with mental issues. I'm not sure if it has gotten worse or we've gotten worse at how we deal with it. Maybe there's more pressure on people, and particularly young people than there was years ago. I can see how that could be true. Probably there's a combination of factors.