What networks, i.e. major news outlets with regional correspondents, are not helping piece together the details?
There will always be security concerns if we have lots of crazy angry people running around with assault weapons. As has now been verified, the shooter's weapon enabled him to breach security at the south entrance. We could put armed officers at every entrance of every school in the nation, and this sort of thing could still happen. Maybe security staffing, alone, is not the answer. And even if it were, who is to say that someone who wants to do a mass shooting would not shift to other venues if the school was really sealed up tight?
Maybe more resources allocated to mental health and at-risk youth, and addressing early signs of breakdowns. Maybe tighter restrictions on young people buying weapons, especially assault rifles. Waiting periods. Stringent background checks. Background checks of family members who might have access to a weapon. Maybe training and testing, as we do with automobiles (and those are not specifically designed for killing, lethal though they are). Come on, are you REALLY worried that you personally are going to be oppressed by invaders if you can't have an assault rifle? Do you really think any rifle sold now would be more than a peashooter against a modern military unit that has breached the borders?
Weird, we spent trillions of dollars on the possibility of more foreign terrorists attacking within the United States, but we can't seem to cough up a fraction of that for our children being slaughtered in schoolhouses. There have been 27 school shootings in the country since Jan. 1, 2022. The copycat effect is causing the trend to accelerate, as it often does.
