Texas Attorney General: To stop School Shootings, Use Israel's Approach
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Lots of schools already have a RSO or security guard. Lotta good that did in Parkland... I think it has more to do with the pussification of America than anything else. Both in why these events happen and how people can't seem to deal with them.
True, but I think there is a bit of a difference between them, and what the article is asking for.
FireInTheWire
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A step in the right direction.
motorcarman
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Israel (Country) in the middle east, RIGHT?????
Because I really don't think I would want to follow Scot Israel's example of school safety!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bob
Because I really don't think I would want to follow Scot Israel's example of school safety!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bob
Self explanatory: "American policymakers should look to Israel for guidance. Living constantly with the threat of terrorism, Israel solved the problem of school security long ago by hardening the target and tightening security practices. Every school with 100 or more students has at least one well-trained armed guard stationed at entrances to monitor who comes and goes."
"American policymakers should look to Israel for guidance. Living constantly with the threat of terrorism, Israel solved the problem of school security long ago by hardening the target and tightening security practices. Every school with 100 or more students has at least one well-trained armed guard stationed at entrances to monitor who comes and goes."
That says to me that their armed guards are a step, or several steps, above a typical RSO that hid at Parkland. Also, I am reading that to say there is at least one at each entrance since "entrances" is plural, and not just one for the whole school.
While I admire Ken Paxton’s ability to get a “guns aren’t the problem” piece in USAyesterday, ask yourself this: How much will it cost and who’s going to pay?
None of the suggestions are cheap and without a systematic and layered defense, the ability to poke holes is pretty easy.
Then think about the problem this way: Houston school districts can probably afford this by raising taxes. But go out to Brewster County and try to figure out where that money will come from?
I can already see the solution: taxing guns, gun parts, ammo, freeloading supplies, targets, and whatever else so the people that use these things can responsibly “pay” for the threat they bring to society. And since you can’t tax a private sale, guess what’s next on the list?
The sell is real easy, too. You don’t have to register anything or even do a background check; you just have to report the purchase and the buyer pays the tax directly to the state, just like that used truck you bought from your neighbor.
None of the suggestions are cheap and without a systematic and layered defense, the ability to poke holes is pretty easy.
Then think about the problem this way: Houston school districts can probably afford this by raising taxes. But go out to Brewster County and try to figure out where that money will come from?
I can already see the solution: taxing guns, gun parts, ammo, freeloading supplies, targets, and whatever else so the people that use these things can responsibly “pay” for the threat they bring to society. And since you can’t tax a private sale, guess what’s next on the list?
The sell is real easy, too. You don’t have to register anything or even do a background check; you just have to report the purchase and the buyer pays the tax directly to the state, just like that used truck you bought from your neighbor.
Almost everything outside of a private sale is a point of sale tax done at the cash register automatically or done as an excise tax on the manufacturer.
I’m not advocating this by any means of the imagination.
As a hunter, I see ads everywhere touting how my dollars go right back into wildlife conservation through the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act. In 2016, that money totaled $1.1 billion with B in revenue for US FWS. Funded entirely through a manufacturer excise tax.
I can easily see a tax-and-spend government pushing through a similar act to collect money from gun owners to protect high value soft targets from criminal acts committed by someone with a gun.
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A single entrance point will keep costs down, and allow more diligent vetting of anyone entering the school.
A roving cop who has to monitor many points of entry isn’t gonna be effective.
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A roving cop who has to monitor many points of entry isn’t gonna be effective.
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Fire exits operate as one-way exits; it’s pretty easy to have a single-entrance facility with multiple exits that are alarmed if opened.
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Not only is it a cost issue and who is going to pay, but how many folks are going to then be complaining about America becoming a police state?
Israel lives in fear, every day, of terrorist attacks and experiences them on a very regular basis. They have armed folks for this purpose, response teams. It is very militarized, the military working with the police, something we don't allow in the US.
We can do it, but are you okay with your taxes going up 25%?
Israel lives in fear, every day, of terrorist attacks and experiences them on a very regular basis. They have armed folks for this purpose, response teams. It is very militarized, the military working with the police, something we don't allow in the US.
We can do it, but are you okay with your taxes going up 25%?
