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A US Senator from Texas literally said yesterday that we should station "good guys with guns" (armed security guards) to prevent school shootings.

krapp 4y ago
Also "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" has been an NRA talking point for years.
throw0101a 4y ago
> A US Senator from Texas literally said yesterday that we should station "good guys with guns" (armed security guards) to prevent school shootings. Yeah, except there was a police officer right outside the building already: > The suspect was immediately engaged outside the building as he approached the school by a Uvalde Independent School District police officer, who was shot by the suspect, the sources said. * https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elementary-school-reports-active-shooter-campus/story?id=84940951 https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elementary-school-reports-ac... And this isn't the first time on-site individuals have been useless: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting#Officer_inactivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_s... Even if officers respond with-in a minute, you still have multiple deaths and many injuries: > Police at the scene engaged him within a minute of the first shots being fired, firing 18 rounds and hitting the gunman several times.[5] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shootin...
sneak 4y ago
In fact it was one such person who ended the killing spree in question.
prawn 4y ago
The solution is always to spend more money. It reminds me of eating and then going to the gym to lose weight, rather than just not eating as much to start with. But eating less makes fewer people rich, so we see fewer ads promoting it, less PR and so on.

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A US Senator from Texas literally said yesterday that we should station "good guys with guns" (armed security guards) to prevent school shootings.

by dendriti 4y ago

krapp 4y ago
Also "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" has been an NRA talking point for years.
throw0101a 4y ago
> A US Senator from Texas literally said yesterday that we should station "good guys with guns" (armed security guards) to prevent school shootings. Yeah, except there was a police officer right outside the building already: > The suspect was immediately engaged outside the building as he approached the school by a Uvalde Independent School District police officer, who was shot by the suspect, the sources said. * https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elementary-school-reports-active-shooter-campus/story?id=84940951 https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elementary-school-reports-ac... And this isn't the first time on-site individuals have been useless: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting#Officer_inactivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_s... Even if officers respond with-in a minute, you still have multiple deaths and many injuries: > Police at the scene engaged him within a minute of the first shots being fired, firing 18 rounds and hitting the gunman several times.[5] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shootin...
sneak 4y ago
In fact it was one such person who ended the killing spree in question.
prawn 4y ago
The solution is always to spend more money. It reminds me of eating and then going to the gym to lose weight, rather than just not eating as much to start with. But eating less makes fewer people rich, so we see fewer ads promoting it, less PR and so on.