@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
The best place to start would be to begin to eliminate the sea of guns in which we are drowning. I've seen people selling handguns from their pickup trucks in parking lots. There are thousands of unlicensed gun sales on the fringes of gun shows every year. Don't try to make the focus "defending schools." The focus needs to be eliminating the millions of guns that circulate virtually without regulation.
I believe guns reflect more than one concern for good citizens, especially if one has school aged children. It's sort of like while we are waiting for a cure for one disease or another, we still attempt to save an individual. Similarly, the shooting at the public school can have an effect on the willingness to go to school, if it is not considered safe. In effect, even if an armed guard never has to take out his/her weapon, in an entire career as an armed school guard, the "placebo effect" is still benefitting the school.
Naturally, home owners might have higher taxes to support armed guards, but it might just be the price to pay for a liberal society that allows people with mental problems to be transparent to authorities.
Plus, if one hasn't raised a small child to adulthood, experiencing the continual anxiety that the child should be safe at every age, one may not be able to commiserate as to how emphatic many sections of the country are, in wanting a good guy with a gun to protect their children? In effect, this may come down to municipalities not waiting for the Federal Government to pass gun bans, and addressing the concern, as best as a local government can.
When did the Federal government become the Santa Claus for all liberal causes?
