Easy Way To Protect Our Schools And Kids

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(04-01-2023, 02:25 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: 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. 

We are naturally producing these weapons, but we're not going to create 25 billion dollars worth of more weapons if we already have 25 billion worth just laying around.

(04-01-2023, 02:25 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: 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. 

Many will say no and many won't be stable enough, but we don't need 8 or 10 veterans at every school. We'd probably only need two or so because, like I said, shooters will be scared off. 

If a shooter is carrying a rifle or semi-automatic weapon, the vet would see them walking from when they got out of there car or at least from a decent distance. 

Larger schools would need more than one soldier with multiple entrances, but smaller schools with only one or two main entrances obviously wouldn't need as many.

(04-01-2023, 02:25 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: 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. 

Show me an instance where a mass shooting has occurred somewhere with an armed guard.