How do we prevent another mass shooting like the one in Connecticut?
Heptarch
2012/12/16 12:51:46
|
|
|||||
|
19 votes
|
|
18% | |||
|
3 votes
|
|
3% | |||
|
18 votes
|
|
17% | |||
|
15 votes
|
|
14% | |||
|
43 votes
|
|
41% | |||
|
7 votes
|
|
7% | |||
Let's have an intelligent, respectful conversation about this, folks.
Top Opinion
-
Less media coverage of shootings
+6I believe that there's no one answer, but that the media sensationalizing these events encourages others to commit them.
For the record, I am not advocating banning guns. I advocate for doing everything we can to keep them ONLY in the hands of responsible people.
Most importantly it should be known who or what is happening on public school grounds. Amping up security systems and installing cameras wouldn't hurt.
But I agree with you that there is no easy fix. I also agree that there are things we can do with school security that could help. I think having a "Panic Room", perhaps as a basement with secured access in each classroom. Perhaps with limiting access to the public. Perhaps with an "emergency button" in the office that an administrator could press to close off all class room doors and call the police. Certainly bulletproof windows and doors.
Taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens will not stop the violence. This has been proven.
No thanks.
A teacher or two with a weapon at Sandy Hook would have made a pretty big difference.
No. The idea that the best way of stopping gun violence is to have MORE guns is absolutely ludicrous.
That doesn't mean I support having teachers carry guns in school. That's just an asinine idea. Like teachers don't have enough to deal with already without adding guns into the mix.
To answer your question, no. It's not personal experience. It's my belief that having guns in school will lead to more deadly violence, not less.
I want my loved ones protected, too, believe me. I just think that having guns in school (on teachers, for instance) would basically give students relatively easy access to guns. Confrontations between students and teachers, students and students would be in more danger of escalating to gunfights because of that.
Besides, I think there are other things we can do to secure schools without introducing weapons into them.
Being a Marine isn't just about the hard work, it's about the commitment to the Corps.
If you were willing to do all the hard work, why didn't you "sign on the dotted line"?
That worked out REALLY well, didn't it?
What else you got for me?
I've got nothing for you.
The idea that somehow it's a lack of religion that leads to spree shooters is asinine.
But hey, you're the one making unsubstantiated claims (i.e. that the decline of religion in this country has led directly to the rise in spree shootings). How about you start proving your OWN claims.
Your argument was that reconnecting with god would prevent such tragedies. I was merely showing you that you were wrong.
You're wrong. He is a Presbyterian, active in his church.