Mass shootings

[Belsnickel]

(02-20-2018, 01:02 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: My wife's day job is working in school administration, so the issue of school/child safety gets talked about a lot in our house. The fact that the real focus of every conversation about this topic isn't on what reasonable steps we can take make it more difficult for these tragedies to happen in the future, is disappointing as hell. 

Here's the rub: what needs to be done won't be reasonable to a sizable swath of people. The discussion around gun control with school shootings is, in all honesty, pointless. I've said so several times. What really needs to happen is an investment in public education so that our schools have the resources to work with students in a way they need and deserve. Federal spending has been going up, but state spending has been cut in many places making things difficult. Hell, the high school here is currently ~500 students over capacity and there is currently no plan in place to relieve that in the next 5 years. In one of the fastest growing municipalities in Virginia.

When educators can't devote time to students due to a lack of resources, they slip through the cracks. When we don't have school counselors, students can slip through the cracks. When these students slip through the cracks, we can get school shootings.