3,100 students at this high school, with an enormous campus.
Not sure I like those odds.
One guard with a rifle is a shit band aid for a larger, legislative problem.
I don't know how else to put this....
1) There are over 300 million guns in this country right now. Even if you could pass the legislation you wanted
today, you would still have to take steps to deal with the reality that guns and ammo will be easily accessible to lawbreakers for a very long time. So whatever your legislative solution is, it needs to address
that reality.
2)
Nobody is arguing that crazy people should have access to guns. The problem is that at the state level, we do a really shitty job of getting nutty people into the federal database. That needs to be fixed.
2) For a school that size, you probably should have 3-5 security if there are multiple buildings. They wouldn't need rifles -- pistols would be enough. The purpose wouldn't be to "take down" a shooter. But as soon as they start returning fire, the threat to the students is pretty much over because the shooter no longer has free rein. Their job would be to isolate/contain/delay the shooter until cops arrive. Otherwise, the entire campus is completely vulnerable not only to lone nutbags, but to lone wolf terrorists.
3. The focus on "assault weapons" is...ridiculous. The overwhelming majority of gun homicides in this country are committed with
handguns. In fact, under federal law, you only need to be 18 to purchase a long-rifle, but 21 to purchase a handgun. If you have someone who wants to kill large numbers people in a school, and they can't get an rifle, they'll just go in packing multiple, easily concealed handguns and be able to kill just about the same number of people because the shooting is almost always at extremely close ranges where the additional accuracy of a rifle isn't necessary.
4.The FBI was warned specifically about this guy last September, where he posted on social media that he was going to be a professional school shooter.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasac...-threat-from?utm_term=.foalM6zpGV#.uqXzr04L38
I haven't yet seen details about what they actually did in response, so that should be interesting to see.
