That sounds like a poor excuse to me.
I heard the latest thing was something about doors.
Maybe they should start relocating schools inside prisons.
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What do you consider white ?
Fencing is probably a cheaper option, but if no one is manning the parking lot entrance, why bother.
We now have a hall monitor standing by orange cones to keep parents from tearing through the faculty parking lot dropping their kids off. No shootings yet. Seems to work.
Although after school the boys fight for fun on the other side of tennis courts which is still on school property.
How about smaller school? My school is 2500 kids. Itâs insane. When they riot, ltfout.
Not a school shooting. Just downtown hi jinx.
Donât consider you one as well.
You said security guard so I assumed you meant an armed security guard. Any shooter with a few brain cells to rub together will use the element of surprise to take out any threat to their mission first right? Thatâs my fear for a security guard - armed or unarmed - posted in a school. Easy targets
Just wanted to call attention to the logistically herculean feat/miracle of providing armed personnel for every school AND there not being any negative outcomes.
You wouldnât need armed guards at every door. Just a 15k a year part timer, to watch who goes out for PE and who tries to slip in unnoticed. Kids open doors to leave, alarm goes off. No one comes to check it out.
Iâd go with smaller schools, more hall monitors, fencing and a security gate guy to check who comes in the non staff parking lots.
Also, they donât. This idiot crashed his truck first. The columbine boys walked out of the tree line in plain sight. The lack of surprise may be something that caught folks off guard. 
Iâd say itâs definitely tied into it.
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Social Media screen time is what we all thought violent video games would do to vulnerable kids/people in the 90s. The main difference is no matter how crackpotty oneâs ideas are, thereâs a place in the internet for yinz, and them folks will talk back to you too, real nice like.
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Where did the killer get the $4500 to buy the weapons?
Some thoughtsâŚ
1 - the Swiss have relatively high firearms ownership rate, but waaay less than the US
2 - Theyâre trained. And regulated. The militia as a reason for having a gun is an actual thing there.
3 - When theyâve had mass shootings, theyâve had actual changes in gun regulations
4 - Itâs a richer (per capita) country with less income inequality
Meh, Iâm reading Sowell now. Thatâs a dog whistle for the left for the most part.
The rest I donât disagree with necessarily. But, unless the Swiss open their border wide and create a permanent underclass, why would they behave like us?
Sowell, iirc, argues mostly about the origins and effects of how we try to solve income inequality; Iâm not sure he has anything to say about the effects of it per se. Anything particularly interesting he has to say there that you can point to?
Iâd rather not get into it here, but his point is mostly focused on how factual data is interpreted and cajoled into evidence, which has a bias. Itâs like saying not all PhDs are paid the same, and that there is a gender bias. There is, but men and women with PhDs donât tend to work in similar fields, engineering vs social work, for example, where one pays way more than the other. I can dig out the chapter reference later, if you wish.
from here:
So⌠Based on that, how do you so easily poopoo income inequality as a difference between the US and Switzerland as a dog whistle?
Because of what Sowell writes about the kinds of conclusions that are drawn in error. From the US side, natch. I donât know much about the Swiss numbers.
BTW, for future reference, IMO and experience, âequity, bias and inequalityâ are all weak minded made up words for folks who canât logic well.
Back on target:
https://archive.ph/FFgOb#selection-4493.0-4496.0
Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering
Income inequality is a measure of deltas in income⌠sure, thereâs often politics surrounding it, but dismissing it as made up words⌠umm, donât know what to say to that, especially when youâre talking about people who âcanât logic well.â
Maybe youâre one of them?
Yes. But when one compares them as I wrote earlier, simply based on gender, as they tend to do, you can see how âincome inequalityâ is a just a rhetorical device used to push oneâs âevidence.â Which is what Sowell was talking about. Not that there are or are not poor people and rich people.
Americans love their gunsâŚ