Originally posted by george burns
No one can stop a man with a gun from walking out his front door and killing as many people as he can before someone stops him. The idea of guards may sound simple, but in most cases people go for the path of least resistance.
So you may indeed redirect them from their target of choice, but you can never stop someone bent on killing people from actually doing that.
Testing and guards may sound simple, but it's doable and I don't see or hear any better ideas, only reasons why nothing will work.
It's starting to sound like Congress. You need to try things in order to determine if they work or not, but if you are so worried about offending people then nothing will ever work.
Try placing just 2 gaurds at the entrance to the building that everyone must pass through, and a metal detector. Sometimes that's enough to dissuade a mentally deranged person into not proceeding further, also signs that say students are subject to search for weapons, run your cctv cameras with trained people watching them Do whatever you need to do.
I agree that theres no way to prevent someone from walking out the door with murder in mind. That would be like the thought police and the pre-crime unit, which I would suggest is more in line with what you suggested with mental health professionals.
I agree that armed security people could help. I completely disagree with the latter part of your last paragraph. I don't believe searching for weapons or metal detectors is the answer. I think allowing qualified ordinary people to carry in those environments is a better deterrent, but one that doesn't get much traction in most places. A few states have changed their laws about carrying on school property, or allowing teachers or staff to carry.
The interesting thing is that when nut cases are stopped by carriers, we hear little about it, it isn't much of a story. It happens. LEO's sometimes stop this sort of thing from going very far also, and we hear little about that, it just isn't as sensational enough or feed the media anti gun sentiment.
It isn't that "nobodies doing anything", its that we don't hear much about it, and, in this case, I don't think you're hearing that
what you want to be done . Sorry, but many of your comments are straight out of the anti-gun media and activist talking points. "We HAVE to DO something!" and "Do whatever you need to do", even if there isn't much reason to believe what you'd like to do would work. The entire mass shootings "epidemic" is a media circus. It isn't an epidemic of shootings, its an epidemic of media attention and saturation coverage, and loud calls of "We HAVE to DO something!".