The Solution to School Shootings

[jimbo]

how about just letting people with guns into the school only on school holidays that way they will just shoot each other thus saving pupils lives

[Accountable]

Originally Posted by Grizzled_Bear

The Brady Campaign is endorsing this The Pledge and Day of National Concern

The Pledge and Day of National Concern

The Student Pledge Against Gun Violence will be observed in schools throughout the country on October 24th, 2007, a Day of National Concern about Young People and Gun Violence. The Pledge encourages young people to take a proactive stance in reducing gun violence.

The Pledge is a national observance giving students throughout the country the chance to sign a voluntary promise that they will:

• never carry a gun to school
• never resolve a dispute with a gun
• use their influence with their friends to keep them from resolving disputes with guns

The Pledge will be followed by an acknowledgment of the importance of individual decisions, multiplied.

My knee-jerk reaction was that this is a pointless feel-good gesture. In my area, the only ones who will take the pledge are unlikely to do any of the three things in the promise. However I can see how it might be helpful in more rural areas.

[Erik]

Originally Posted by Accountable

The Pledge and Day of National Concern

The Student Pledge Against Gun Violence will be observed in schools throughout the country on October 24th, 2007, a Day of National Concern about Young People and Gun Violence. The Pledge encourages young people to take a proactive stance in reducing gun violence.

The Pledge is a national observance giving students throughout the country the chance to sign a voluntary promise that they will:

• never carry a gun to school
• never resolve a dispute with a gun
• use their influence with their friends to keep them from resolving disputes with guns

The Pledge will be followed by an acknowledgment of the importance of individual decisions, multiplied.

My knee-jerk reaction was that this is a pointless feel-good gesture. In my area, the only ones who will take the pledge are unlikely to do any of the three things in the promise. However I can see how it might be helpful in more rural areas.

LOL! you're initial reaction was spot on. What a bunch of pointless bullsh1T! We might as well have them pledge to wipe themselves after they take a crap.

Seriously, this is nothing more empty feel good garbage. Our public education system is a pathetic joke.

[ekotter]

I'm not sure if students should be allowed to have guns in schools, but I do think that every instructor and teacher should have a gun in their class room. It is ridiculous to me to propose that guns should be banned completely in schools. This would leave everyone defenseless to criminals and psychos who will prey on the unarmed. If guns were outlawed then criminals would still find ways to get guns. This would leave sane law abiding citizens completely unable to defend themselves.

[fuzzywuzzy]

My son's school teaches him to shoot . *shrugs*

[spot]

There's a bizarre conjunction of news today.

Soccer parents wince at prospect of guns at games (that's the history, and the link with this thread since the Brady Campaign was contesting her lawsuit)

Gun-toting soccer mom is shot dead

and

Carrying a gun increases risk of getting shot and killed - science-in-society - 06 October 2009 - New Scientist which I was reading an hour earlier.

Charles Branas's team at the University of Pennsylvania analysed 677 shootings over two-and-a-half years to discover whether victims were carrying at the time, and compared them to other Philly residents of similar age, sex and ethnicity. The team also accounted for other potentially confounding differences, such as the socioeconomic status of their neighbourhood. Despite the US having the highest rate of firearms-related homicide in the industrialised world, the relationship between gun culture and violence is poorly understood. A recent study found that treating violence like an infectious disease led to a dramatic fall in shootings and killings.

Overall, Branas's study found that people who carried guns were 4.5 times as likely to be shot and 4.2 times as likely to get killed compared with unarmed citizens. When the team looked at shootings in which victims had a chance to defend themselves, their odds of getting shot were even higher.

Oh, and we're now one week into Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

[hoppy]

The answer is simple. They get on the school busses naked. No clothes, no stupid backpacks. Naked until they get home. Teachers too. Everybody naked. Naked football. Naked basketball. Naked cheerleaders. AAARRRGGHH!