Again, you’re showing the weakness of your argument and your hypocrisy in bitching about personal attacks and then levying them so regularly.
There were trained officers and a slew of guns outside the school. They didn’t do shit.
We have data. States that have passed right to carry concealed handguns laws saw in increase in violent crimes by 13-15%. The data spanned from 1970 to 2014.
In 2019, KXAN News in Austin worked with the ALERRT Center at Texas State University to compile data on 316 mass shootings in Texas between 2000 and 2019. The data showed that citizens stopped shooters 50 times out of 316 but only 10 of those instances were by using a gun. The other 40 times, the citizen used either their hands or another weapon.
Armed guards in school is a good idea, but in several cases they fail to engage like Columbine or Parkland.
In 2020, FBI’s Uniform Crime Report found about 77% of reported murders in the U.S. that year were gun-related. This is an increase from 74% the previous year and an all-time record high.
Over 45,000 people were killed in 2020 by a firearm, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition to murders, 24,292 of these were suicides.
The state of Texas has the 28th highest gun death rate in U.S., Giffords Law Center reports. According to the organization’s data, there are 12.7 gun deaths for every 100,000 residents – an average of on gun-related death every two hours.
All that being said, I’m not an anti-gun guy. I might own more guns than all or most of you. I also love the AR-15. Banning the scary looking gun can result in a much higher caliber, less scary looking gun, taking its place. Think of a .30-06 and how many people that’ll go through in its stead. The AR is popular because its customizable, but not a high caliber weapon. I’m not in favor of sweeping gun laws as most of these shootings have no link to those laws outside of just banning all guns, which is impossible here.
I’ve offered no solutions because I have none. We’re the problem. How do you fix “us”? Not sure. Maybe what makes us great in some facets is also what makes us dangerous to ourselves. Just dunno. Maybe we require insurance for all gun owners, for each gun. That’ll require a registry, which people hate, but what if we tie your financials to your gun ownership and if its used in this or that, you’re financially responsible?
That wouldn’t fix this one. He bought them for this purpose. But, not sure…that’s all I came up with. I don’t understand a lot of things, like physics, and I have answers for even less than that. The fear and pain involved in seeing this when you also have children is heavy, and a weight I cannot imagine. You guys have children, I am not smart enough to have an answer to this problem, so I’m just a bystander on this one. Glad ya’ll with children have them safe today.