How many bad things need to happen?

I worded that poorly...Change wont happen for a particular district until something happens to that district

Just my opinion

They should also look into the size and design of school facilities. Most rooms have one door... one way in one way out. Which feeds into a long hallway with exits to far apart. All these people fleeing in concentrated areas. Makes for easy targets. Also reduce the size of these campuses. My wife is one of 4 , 5th grade math teachers at her school. Each teacher has 100 + students. that's 400-500 5th graders. there is 4 grades on her campus. An average of 2000 kids concentrated in one area. Off the top of my head there are 7 exits. There is armed staff on campus. But in a panic could a couple of people get there in time?

It isn't that difficult to retrofit an existing door with a mag lock, or pull an entire door frame, install a reinforced jamb, mag lock, and safety glass. Samesies with windows. It just takes $$, which I've never seen an elected official not want to spend as much as possible. For the kids, you know?

If he had smoke bombs, he would've had other bombs if he wasn't able to have his AR-15. If his mind was set on shooting people, he would've had a gun, any gun if he couldn't get an AR-15. The ONLY way to stop these is to have schools locked down like Courthouses. Metal detector and armed personnel at every entry point.

But you would be fine with issuing that same kid one of those weapons (but with a 3 round burst option), sending him to the sandbox, and letting him die for the same freedom that you want to restrict his civilian counterparts from having? Makes complete sense.

so lets just do an experiment that is working for the entire globe and JUST ban these certain weapons and see if things improve.

It would cost somewhere between 10-15 billion annually to put an armed guard at each school in the country.

Taking away rapid fire weapons boils down to a second amendment issue much more than a safety issue. The reality is that this is a power struggle driven by a political agenda rather than something about keep people �safe� we don�t live in a perfect world, those crazies will find another way to hurt a bunch of people whether it be a black market weapon, a bomb, or other means. I�m not giving up my rights due to the fault of someone who went crazy. The second amendment was designed to allow the American people to have similar weaponry as that of the government, and we all know the government powers at hand won�t be giving up their �rapid fire� weapons. It�s sad to say, but there is not really a way to fix this problem.

Do you honestly think there are actually people who can�t get a weapon? Anyone can buy a firearm on the black market. Those background checks aren�t very effective with black market gun dealers.

I believe the children who feel they have no advocates will make themselves heard in the near future. Many who have witnessed the horrors in recent years will be of voting age soon.

Yes, I honestly think this retard could not have sourced a black market weapon. And I honestly think even the average thug would have realized this guy was foul and not sold him one. Again, making it tougher for folks to get access to powerful weapons would not stop all mass shootings, but I certainly think it would help. Particularly in cases like this. I'm not advocating taking anyones existing weapons away, I'm just saying raise the age limit, eliminate private sales without validation, and tighten the purchase requirements. I don't know how to do that last piece exactly, but I'd be open to talking about options.

This is like 2 days in a row that I have agreed with WAWI on something. I need you to post a JoeT comment so we can restore order.

I could simply walk across the street and obtain any weapon I wanted from the cartel brothers, no questions asked