Perspective: in the first 10 years after 9/11, $635 Billion was spent by Homeland Security alone. That helped put 43,000 screeners to work at 440 airports, or about 100 employees per airport, screening about 2 million passengers daily.
There’s about 93,000 schools serving 50 million students daily. Let’s assume we harden up all those targets. What do you do about sports stadiums, parking lots, bus stops, and off-campus events?
We’re talking order of magnitude differences here.
More perspective: Since 1764, there’s been about 600 people killed in on campus shootings.
I get that schools should be safe, and I’ll argue that they are safer than we give them credit for. And I’ve got a daughter in her early 20s teaching in a public school in the shittier part of Austin.
Should something be done? I just don’t know. The only way we will see change is when behaviors change towards these types of events. We, as a whole, have to instill in them the four rules of gun safety; we have to instill in them it is pure evil that perpetrates the shitbags that do these things. We as a whole have to decide change starts with us.
I grew up in a street with 6 houses and 17 kids. All of us could take a gun out of the house and safely shoot it in the 400 or so acres that adjoined our block. And every parent on that street would beat our asses for doing so, and then turn us over to our parents for the ass second ass beating.
Funny story; we had BB gun wars all the time. First time someone was shot and it actually left a mark, we all beat the trigger pullers ass since we knew that our numbers were up when we got home.
And yes, we grew up taking shotguns for after school dive hunting. And nobody got shot, on campus or not.
There’s about 93,000 schools serving 50 million students daily. Let’s assume we harden up all those targets. What do you do about sports stadiums, parking lots, bus stops, and off-campus events?
We’re talking order of magnitude differences here.
More perspective: Since 1764, there’s been about 600 people killed in on campus shootings.
I get that schools should be safe, and I’ll argue that they are safer than we give them credit for. And I’ve got a daughter in her early 20s teaching in a public school in the shittier part of Austin.
Should something be done? I just don’t know. The only way we will see change is when behaviors change towards these types of events. We, as a whole, have to instill in them the four rules of gun safety; we have to instill in them it is pure evil that perpetrates the shitbags that do these things. We as a whole have to decide change starts with us.
I grew up in a street with 6 houses and 17 kids. All of us could take a gun out of the house and safely shoot it in the 400 or so acres that adjoined our block. And every parent on that street would beat our asses for doing so, and then turn us over to our parents for the ass second ass beating.
Funny story; we had BB gun wars all the time. First time someone was shot and it actually left a mark, we all beat the trigger pullers ass since we knew that our numbers were up when we got home.
And yes, we grew up taking shotguns for after school dive hunting. And nobody got shot, on campus or not.