Rancid wrote:Texas? won't happen. The Texas legislature, and Texas Education Agency are hell bench on defunding and destroying the public school system here.
It's up to the Texan voters. Maybe public demands to that effect will eventually change after this, maybe a state law won't even be necessary and parents will demand these type of measures from school districts.
Rancid wrote:Guns are a part of this, but it's not the only thing, of course.
Gun access, mental health, security protocols at schools, societal problems that create these kind of people, etc., etc..
I believe it was Sandy Hook at motivated more school districts to lock up the doors.
Indeed, but at least in this particular case the lack of basic security is astonishing.
There are so many guns going around this country that it seems gun control will become effective in the short or even medium run. It's hard to even enforce current gun control measures, let alone add new ones.
It's hard to understand why some people just decide to shoot up a place (schools or anywhere else, really). These seem to have become far more common since the late 1990s and it's hard to know why. I don't know if mental health or societal problems are all that worse nowadays than in the 1980s for instance, but either way it seems unlikely we'll figure this out anytime soon either.
So limiting strangers access to schools seems like the easiest, cheapest and quickest measure to take - and it would keep children safe from all sorts of threats, not just crazy people or gunners.