Training and preparing for an event like this has other consequences. First off, the likelihood of getting shot at school is extremely low. 30 million students x 180 days. Second, school should be a place where learning takes place and not be treated as a potentially deadly environment. Third, most 16-17 year olds would freeze with fear in a situation like this one, even with training. Instead of teaching kids to martyr themselves for the greater good, schools should be screening visitors and students to make sure no malefactors gain entrance. Lastly, we need to take a good hard look at our culture which produces murderers like this and identify the connection of these bad people to firearms. Firearms - the right bear firearms - are embedded in our national fabric. There is no right to use them indiscriminately to carry out vicious deadly fantasies. We have a culture that glorifies violence and there are queer offshoots from this glorification, offshoots by deranged individuals with easy access to repeating rifles. Everybody pro gun or anti gun wants to see no guns in the hand of irrational actors. That is the challenge.
The public safety as a constitutional principle is superior to the right bear arms. The most rabid pro second amendment advocates must see the gun control is necessary. There are people who among us would not never own a gun. You can take the position that a bad actor is going to emerge and commit mass murder and you could also develop tool and analytical techniques to spot the radicalized. But we need take step back and frame violence as a destructive attempt to validate a warped world view. We need to offer alternatives - in certain cases - that seek to re-integrate former terrorists into society in a productive was. IF some remaIN obstinate, theN THEY CAN STAY JAIN remain in jail
