It's a mental defect due to bad programing. It's just as easily could be a car, airplane, truck, pressure cooker, machette or some other IED and who knows what not from a 3D printer.
I listened to TRUMP's listening session today. Clearly it's a multi-faceted problem. Schools do have plans, they are just not effective enough today. For example; I happened to be at a school during a lock down drill. After the drill we talked about it with the kiddos. I asked where they went and then where I went. They went where they were told to go, basically as far from the door as possible. I went to right next to the door, just out of sight of the glass in it. They were a little surprised by that. And yes Virginia, anyone coming through that door would have less commitment than I would.
Anyway, one thing I heard in that listening session today is that we have a lot of well trained ex-military in our society that could be called upon in some form or fashion. While not mentioned, we also have the National Guard, not to mention many teachers that are already certified concealed carry. Point being, we have well trained resources if we want to leverage them. It's just a small matter of commitment and $$.
First, you should maybe look up the definitely of a fad. School shootings aren't a fad. They've occurred too often over a long period of time to be considered that. Second, what an idiotic thing to say, if one school shooting didn't happen at the beginning, there would be none now. That's some moronic logic. So if one person had never drunk too much and got in a car the first time, no one would have ever done it? No. It was going to happen because we have guns and we have people who want to hurt people for varies reasons (including themselves). Thirdly, your plan is idiotic in that the people doing the shootings are the kids who would have had the training you talk about. For a plan to be effective, you would have to teach the kids what to do, where to go. And your shooter would know these things. You can arm your coaches and principals but they aren't trained for combat. You can know how to shoot a gun but that doesn't mean you have the skills to hit a moving target, or be accurate when someone is shooting at you, or that you have the ability to take someone else's life. Those people would also have no idea the number of shooters or how skilled the shooters are. If you send people to deal with a group that outnumbers them, they are probably gonna end up killed. If you send them to against people who are trained better and willing to kill, they could die. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Your plan isn't going to stop a determined kid from killing students.
Originally Posted by Austin Dude