10 Myths About School Shootings

[carnaby]

True, it does present a dilemma. You read about the girl in California who's siblings were killed by the crazy naked guy with a pitch fork, when if she'd had access to her fathers handgun, which she knew how to use, she might have prevented the deaths of her younger siblings.

I will decide when my kids are older just how much to trust them. I hope I can trust them to the point of making firearms available to them when I am out, so that they can defend themselves, but most of the kids I grew up with were not that trustworthy.

 

[c_yeager]

I didn't say a fire team at each school was feasable, just the most effective.

Actually, closing schools altogether and forcing students to live out the first 18 years of their lives in hermetically sealed bubbles would probably be the most effective.

But then I have silly ideas about schools, things like sports should be the first thing to go if a school is low on funding. I fail to understand the logic of how a school can complain that they do not have the money to pay for teachers, supplies, or modern learning equipment, but they can have top-notch football teams that travel the whole state playing games every weekend.

My football team was self-supporting. The team members paid a fee and ticket sales helped to support some other sports in addition to that team. I also learned a hell of a lot more playing sports than sitting in class in highschool.

How many attacks at airports have there been in the last 10 years? Why is there more security at the airport than my local high school?

I bet you a dollar that more people have been murdered after passing airport security in the last decade than all the kids killed in school shootings in all of history.

 

[silverlance]

school shootings will come to a screeching halt

when it becomes common knowledge that americans won't flop over and curl their tails at the sight of a gun.

when that moment of power produced by the display of a gun is removed as an incentive, to be replaced by a certain rush by the aggressor's intended subjects, a great deal of the motivation behind such events will be removed as well.

 

[glummer]

Columbine Guards??

...(people forget that there were armed guards at Columbine High School, which earned those guards the distinction of being ...

Have you got a cite for this? All the accounts I've seen mention only students & teachers.

 

[c_yeager]

I dont know about Columbine, but the Red Bluff school (shooting in March) had a security guard and metal detectors. The guard was the first one who got shot. I dont think he was armed though, but the security didnt seem to make a bit of difference.