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Originally Posted by realcoray
How exactly do you accomplish this goal of keeping bad people away from innocent people?
Does every school, mall, theatre, office building etc need a single entrance with full body scanners?
Do you retrofit all schools with either bullet proof glass thick enough to stop armor piercing assault weapon rounds, or just make the windows so small no one can get through them?
Access is without a doubt an area that we could improve on that could reduce the effectiveness of the people doing these things. For example in Sandy Hook they had the doors locked down, but it took him basically no time to get inside and start murdering people. Even just slowing people down can make a huge difference as it gives law enforcement time to show up.
I know that schools are being designed these days with these sorts of events in mind. There was a new story locally about a firm that designs most schools in our state and they talked about some of it.
My point though is that I think you can only do so much here without making daily life a borderline prison for kids and adults. I don't want to get a body cavity search every time I go to the theatre and I don't want my daughter going to school in a place that has metal detectors, police everywhere, slits for windows, thick bulletproof glass, teachers with AR15s, etc.
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Unfortunately that is reality. It sucks, but at any given time some whack job can go off anywhere.