Jack Kemp

7 Simple Steps to Eliminate School Shootings Overnight

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After days of bitter hurt, anger, deep savage argument, and plenty of non-thinking social media trolls blurting whatever comes to mind through their thumbs, it’s time we as Americans begin a genuine discussion about how to stop the next school shooting from occurring.
It’s important that we do this even though gun deaths are by no means the most dangerous form of death in America today.

In 2017, with 300,000,000-plus guns in the hands of Americans, there were 15,549 gun deaths. This ranks less than half the number of automobile deaths even though there are fewer cars in existence than guns. In 2017, there were
253,000,000 cars in existence and 41,000 auto deaths. "

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Dana's Two Cents:

I'm putting these comments here rather than in the Comments section in hopes they'll be more easily seen.

I like the last three ideas the best, as I am convinced they will best solve the problem. Someone such as Nikolas Cruz will be much less likely to enter a school, loaded with weapons, ready to start shooting, if he knows ahead of time that he'll be met by people with their own weapons who will have no hesitation about shooting him. Indeed, he'll take this into consideration when he makes his plans and try to find another school. One hopes all the other schools in the area will have taken the same precautions.

I fear that too many school systems, especially in liberal enclaves and/or "poor" areas, will stop after having taken the passive measures of #1 and #4. Additionally, metal detectors will make it hard for people to enter the school with legitimate metal objects (repair tools, for example). #2 and #3 are fine but will not stop bullets.

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