Six school shootings in just over a week. What do we do? To do nothing is to invite more shootings.?

How do we not violate the second amendment and still address this problem in America?
Six school shootings in just over a week. What do we do? To do nothing is to invite more shootings.?
This can be traced all the way to parenting. Back when kids were taught to repect people, be honest and take responsibility, we didn't have this problem. Guns were just as readily availble then.





But then things changed and parents were taught or encouraged not to be the biggest fear in a childs life - instead be their friend, their confidant. And if the child is too much to handle, then medicate them...and look what has happened.
Reply:Metal detectors. People will complain about how it infringes on personal liberty, even though no one HAS the right to bring a firearm or weapon onto school grounds anyway.
Reply:Stop talking so much about it. If the media and Michael Moore had not given Columbine so much attention, it would not have attracted so many others.
Reply:We could try enforcing the laws we already have while not passing any more gun control laws.





I should be able to buy an automatic AK-47 if I wanted to, but Clinton passed laws against automatics.
Reply:Enforce the laws we already have and stop selling guns to the mentally ill.
Reply:Here is the republican answer... " give everyone int he school a gun, then when the shooters come the rest of the students will be able to take him or her out!"





Just like the old west isn't it?
Reply:Take your heads out of your backsides and scrap the piece of archaic legislation that is preventing you, I can't beleive who you let control your country, do you have any intellectuals? Why does industry get to have a say in such an important matter. I can't for a moment understand. No wonder your youngsters are so angry, displaced and messed up.
Reply:At a minimum:


(1) Require registration of all weapons at manufacture and at all transfers of ownership.


(2) Require criminal records and psychological examinations for ownership.


(3) Require trigger locks and safe storage of weapons.


(4) Revoke licenses on determination of mental instability.





Schools appear to be prime targets, which should not surprise us. There you will find immature minds suffering the problems of entering adulthood, bullies, cliques, and various stresses.





Arming every student with a handgun would lead to additional casualties from friendly fire. I would prefer to have every student carry at least one ball bearing ready to aim at a shooter. A stainless steel ball bearing with a one-inch diameter weighs over a pound. A one-pound sphere striking a person at 50 miles per hour will be effective no matter where it hits. Lives could be saved if each student threw her best shot before running away. A rain of ball bearings will stop the shooting with less serious consequences from friendly fire.





The trick is to avoid panic. Just as any combat recruit, the students would have to be trained to respond properly.





Law abiding citizens have to get over their paranoia about Big Government taking their guns away. Registration is meant to protect them against the worst cases among us.
Reply:There is no solution to this problem.


People go nuts. You can't stop people from going nuts. This may sound stupid, but the fact that these crazy people are getting guns may actually be saving lives.


If they couldn't get guns, they'd make bombs or find other means that would likely cause a larger death toll during the event.


Increasing armed security guards, their training, and their response time may be the best approach.
Reply:I think you have to take a deeper look. When you look at the great decline of people caring about people it's awful. Children and people have no respect for life. They see and feel less about what it means.To much I only care about me and not the others. This is the sign of a godless world.
Reply:Nice post. Maybe if we could change peoples attitudes somehow. The media glorifies violence and folks just soak it up big time. Who is really to blame here? I feel that people should be held accountable for their own actions no matter what. This is a very good Q and it's not easy to answer. In the state that I live in we have very little violent crime. We have never had a school shooting at all and the town that I live in really has no violent crime at all. I think about the most violent event, in my town, is the occasional brawl behind a bar on a Saturday night. But get this! 57% of the state population are gun owners here. That actuall number I'm sure is higher due to gun sales by individuals that are not known about. We have very little violent crime and tons and tons of gun owners. I know I haven't really given you an answer here. Most people in my state are decent and would bend over backwards to help you out if you needed help. So perhaps it all comes down to proper upbringing. I don't know. There is an old saying here I'm sure you have heard of it. Maybe this apllies and maybe not. "An armed society is a polite society".
Reply:I say send all the non english speaking illegals home in a pig truck. They're taking away all our jobs and overcrowding our schools and hospitals.





Hate breeds hate and causes people to shoot illegals.
Reply:Guns have been around longer than school shooting, what is missing now is morality, the respect for life, the values that family used to instill in their children are not happening anymore.


On top of this the guy was 'off his meds' more kids are medicated instead of taught how to handle anger and disappointment.


That is why its happening it has nothing to do with what they use, in the Middle East they strap bombs to themselves and blow up people in markets, in Africa they go into villages and hack men, women and children to death.


Violence is just not in America.
Reply:TV and video games promote violence, along with the easy access to firearms. Prescription drugs such as Prozac and Ritalin are a major factor in "triggering" school shootings. Just goes to show that these are not a "cure all" but can induce radical behavior. Commercialism and Big Business has the biggest influence on teen/post teen violence. What do we address first!?
Reply:Guns %26amp; laws on the books are not the problem. We have young people with serious psychological problems. That young man snapped %26amp; if it wasn't a gun it would have been something else. Cars do not kill people either, wreckless %26amp; drunken driverers do. These people can be helped without gun owners like myself being scapegoated. Condolences to all of the shooting victims %26amp; their families.
Reply:Let teachers exercise their Second Amendment right.





Whacko shooters prefer victims that they know will not return fire.
Reply:I'd look at the Humanities courses in these schools - and follow their students down to the H/Ss where they taught too. I'd be surprised if there's not nihilism in their coursework.
Reply:forget about those amendments.....get rid of all guns everywhere in the country..only law enforcers will be allowed and anybody who has a gun give them 5-15 years in jail...no ifs and buts.