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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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[quote] You heavily arm these army vets and I guarantee you won’t have another school shooting.[/quote]
If that were true, we'd never have a single mass shooting on a military base, now would we?? Gosh, in real life, the presence of heavily armed soldiers doesn't have that much deterrence, does it??

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[b] December 6, 2019: Pensacola Naval Air Station (Florida)[/b]
Yhe Navy has confirmed the suspected shooter is dead. Three people were killed and eight others injured.

[b]December 4, 2019: Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam[/b] (Hawaii)
Active-duty US sailor Gabriel Romero killed two civilian workers and injured another before killing himself, officials said. Investigators have yet to identify a motive, but they say he chose his victims randomly.

[b]April 2, 2014: Fort Hood (Texas)[/b]
Army soldier Ivan Lopez killed three people and injured 16 others before fatally shooting himself in the head. A US official later said Lopez had previously reported being taunted and picked on by soldiers in his unit.

[b]September 16, 2013: Washington Navy Yard (D.C.)[/b]
Twelve Navy Yard workers were killed and eight others injured when military contractor Aaron Alexis went on a shooting rampage. Alexis was killed after an encounter with security officials.

[b]November 5, 2009: Fort Hood (Texas)[/b]
In what is considered the biggest mass shooting at a US military base in history, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire inside the base’s processing center, killing 13 people and an unborn child and wounding 32 others. A wounded civilian officer managed to shoot Hasan, who was taken into police custody. Hasan was later sentenced to death and is currently on military death row at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

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fanuc2013 · 51-55, F
@ElwoodBlues And all because servicemen are not allowed to walk around with weapons! They are restricted to armories and firing ranges! In reality, most of a military base is a " gun free zone"!
@fanuc2013 So the enlisted men are unarmed, access to high rate of fire and large magazines is very restricted, the MPs and other military law enforcement are armed, some officers are probably carrying sidearms, and this explains why base shootings are rare and have low kill rates. Good to know.