Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri...
by throw0101a on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:14PM
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> A US Senator from Texas literally said yesterday that we should station "good guys with guns" (armed security guards) to prevent school shootings.
Yeah, except there was a police officer right outside the building already:
> The suspect was immediately engaged outside the building as he approached the school by a Uvalde Independent School District police officer, who was shot by the suspect, the sources said.
Yeah, except there was a police officer right outside the building already:
> The suspect was immediately engaged outside the building as he approached the school by a Uvalde Independent School District police officer, who was shot by the suspect, the sources said.
* https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elementary-school-reports-ac...
And this isn't the first time on-site individuals have been useless:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_s...
Even if officers respond with-in a minute, you still have multiple deaths and many injuries:
> Police at the scene engaged him within a minute of the first shots being fired, firing 18 rounds and hitting the gunman several times.[5]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shootin...