We have a well-established way of going about fighting crime. It is, that we hire a town marshal, so to speak. We put an officer (of some type, even if it is just a private security officer) at the place of danger. It works. I've noticed there hasn't been much talk of whether the number of security officers is increasing, so it must be that it is not significantly up. Why not? It should be. Are we not even considering this well-proven line of defense?
Another option is metal detectors. Notice how no one is hijacking planes these days? Nor do we have mass shooting in the sky, nor any gun violence at all. That's because the model of self defense the airlines are using is working. Instead of telling all their passengers to bring their own guns to defend themselves, they went the route of making sure no one at all has a gun. If something works, maybe we should do it. It is sad that it has come to this, and it will be a big inconvenience, but perhaps we should have security at our schools that almost equals that at our airports. Maybe. Someone would have to tell me why not, and I would consider it, but right now I'm thinking we should do it.
So, there are the two ideas on dealing with mass murders that are being overlooked, that aren't even in the discussion. Strangely, to me, they seem the best ideas of all.
These two ideas don't really fit into the two boxes, meaning gun control on the one side and tossing everyone a gun on the other. But, I suggest they'd work, just the same.
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