U.S. : We should use some of our military spending to supply schools with armed guards so that people don't shoot them up

Um no. We should have stricter gun control.

The focus should be on addressing the underlying causes of mass shootings, such as mental health issues, societal factors, and better enforcement of existing gun laws, rather than on banning specific types of firearms. Banning assault weapons alone won't stop mass shootings, as the vast majority are committed with handguns, which would remain legal. Also, determined individuals might still find ways to acquire these weapons illegally or use other means to carry out attacks.

Oh yes, if I think of any other country on earth that DOESNT have school shootings, the first thing I think about is how they have random barely HS educated military men armed to the teeth, to keep in line the kids who have access to guns

OH wait

Or introduce and enforce stricter gun control. We had a school shooting in the UK in 1996. We banned most hand guns and haven’t had a school shooting since. Most police don’t carry guns.

@Rachel you can ban all you want but that doesn’t stop it from circulating, stricter gun control doesn’t do anything but make it harder for “good” citizens to rightfully defend themselves .

Yeah the UK and Australia don't have school shootings. You can't argue banning guns doesn't prevent school shootings, cause it does. It doesn't completely eliminate gun crime but basically only bikies have guns and they just shoot each other.

@Rachel One prominent study published in 2022 by the National Institute of Justice, which analyzed mass shootings between 1966 and 2019, found that only about 25% of mass shootings involved the use of assault weapons. Other sources, such as the Violence Policy Center, have reported similar figures, with assault weapons being used in only about 20-25% of mass shootings.

@Ella Banning guns in the U.S. is nearly impossible. The U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment guarantees the right to "keep and bear arms”. With an estimated 400 million guns in civilian hands, more than the population of the country, implementing and enforcing a ban would be extremely difficult. Confiscating or requiring the surrender of such a large number of firearms would face massive resistance and logistical challenges. The U.S. is a federal system, meaning states have significant power over their own gun laws. Some states have strict gun control laws, while others have very lenient ones. This patchwork of laws makes it difficult to enforce a nationwide ban, as states differ widely in their approach to gun regulation.

@Rachel I don’t have a weird agenda and there’s no need to get defensive or attacking people. I guess you’ll let the other 41% mass shooting out of the picture then 🤷‍♀️

@Rachel could you also please share your sources? I’d like to read the data and can’t find the numbers you are stating.

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-police-prevent-some-violence-but-not-shootings-research-finds/2023/07 The school resource officers placed in at most American public schools have proven unhelpful in cases of active shooters & general gun violence occurring. More armed guards won’t be the answer.

@Rachel you literally accused me of having a weird agenda! Whatever that means lol. For no reason… anyway 👍

I do not think putting guns in schools is the solution.

@Parker 又 maybe they're unhelpful because they don't carry guns 🤔

They do tho? They are full blown police officers who have an office in public schools. When I was in high school, our resource officer at both my districts high school & my county’s votech school; both resource officers had guns & were employed by the towns police department.

@Parker 又 I don't think they all do. My HS resource officer didn't have one.

That sounds dumb. Why implement a police officer in your school without a gun on their tool belt? Racism? LMFAO

Stricter gun laws won't fix the mental health crisis. It will go from shootings to bombing, stabbing, or other forms of violence.

I feel like most already have security officers who are armed. Maybe that’s just in the city.

The resource officers in our middle school does. High school has multiple.

@Dana Lew I absolutely agree with you!

@Angel I’ll take a 25% elimination over nothing. We are doing nothing and there’s multiple in schools per year.

Didn’t the Uvalde situation prove this won’t work? Even the cops pause first. We need stricter gun laws.

@Brandi Read my first comment; that's what I would do, and I believe it would be more helpful than just a 25% reduction in mass shootings. Banning assault weapons would only lead shooters to use different, non-banned weapons. That’s what I’ll take.

@Angel yeah I know, guns are inextricably ingrained in American culture. I'm glad its not my job to solve that particular unsolvable problem

@Ella I always try to explain to my fellow Americans we need to take an approach of increasing gun SAFETY if we as Americans feel gun control is too threatening to our culture. If guns are so important all the safety aspects involved with guns should be taken more seriously. Gun safety includes looking at mental health, but they’d rather blame crazy people than admit something is wrong 🙃

Yes, 1000%! I would donate a firearm if they were even willing to consider this. People with guns/guarded by guns very rarely get assaulted. Also, other countries don’t have our constitution but our nation was founded on it for a reason.

Wasn’t that the issue with the Texas school shooting that they were armed yet didn’t respond. Also according to media this is a 14 year old kid. How the hell does a 14 year old kid get a gun? That’s the bigger issue.

Unpopular opinion: take some military funding and put it towards revamping the work week and school curriculum. Start giving parents bigger tax breaks and stimulus checks, reduce the “full time” work week to 30 hours, have high quality government health care at almost no cost to taxpayers (companies should foot the bill), and schooldays should be cut to 4 hours. Parents can be given an allowance for homeschooling. All of that so parents and families can spend more time at home with each other and not have to worry about intruders on school grounds. Oh and fix other parts of the economy like the housing market, rent prices and costs of groceries so hustle culture can finally die and we can spend more time hugging each other so people don’t go around shooting each other 🤷🏽‍♀️

Schools have armed guards. I’ve never been to one that doesn’t. All three of my kids schools have them, they walk around, they go outside. There are campus police. It’s a much more complex issue we have here with many different roots to the problem.

@Karen unfortunately probably from his parents or family/friends who keep their guns unsecured. Which isn’t uncommon. This happened in the south where more people keep guns and a lot of them don’t secure them. I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out they were taken from someone he knew.

I actually think this should be a state issue. The way we have state patrol or state Guard. They should get shifts at public education facilities.

We should use some military spending for free mental health services. And not just shitty guidance counselors. Anyone should be able to see a licensed professional for free. And kids who are walking red flags should be required to see mental health professionals.

https://x.com/artcandee/status/1831839269503299736?s=46&t=ZI1EEFjH1ePLOg4Ao9yR2A The father has been charged. He bought the kid the gun for Christmas. He was 14 when he got the gun.