Easy Way To Protect Our Schools And Kids

[KillerGoose]

(04-01-2023, 02:11 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Which we would then have to purchase more to replace those and to keep our own stockpile up to standards.

We are naturally producing these weapons. It isn't an extra burden on our weapon production. There is no extra expenditure. It is a cost incurred regardless. If you would like to argue that maybe we should reduce our defense budget to allocate money to other issues, then I would be in favor of that, yes. 

Quote:You're saying we don't have enough police officers and, in the same post, switching the argument against vets.


I realize that there are vets all over, so you could maybe have vets who are willing to move to new areas or have a rotation where a vet is only at a school for a month or two and then have vets rotate in and move to another location.

The argument is the same for both side - we don't have enough police officers to satisfy your proposal. Many departments are already short. If the idea is that we can fill that deficit with unemployed veterans, then we don't have enough unemployed veterans to fill the delta so we still don't achieve our goal. Vets moving from location-to-location sounds nice, but we have to keep in mind we are working with humans here. There are naturally going to be people who live in close proximity to family. Convincing them to uproot their life and move around will be a difficult ask that won't be accommodated simply for the greater good. Many will say no. Some of these veterans may be unemployed due to disabilities/sickness/mental disorders. They wouldn't qualify for the program proposed here, so we aren't getting full utilization out of the 250k, which only increases our shortfall. 

Quote:Ok, so why not try it and exhaust all resources to keep our kids safe?

It is already being tried. That is how we have our current data, and it doesn't support an improvement. Some schools are looking for more officers on campus, so if that trend continues then we will be able to see if there is a threshold to be crossed that can provide benefit.