[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

[quote=Doctommft;891710]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

Re-read our posts. You are why out there in misunderstanding everything that has been written. Maybe your probable bias has something to do with that.

OK, here is your post:

I wonder how long it will be before some our gun enthusiasts will come on and say that schools should not be gun free zones since that encourages someone to come start shooting since it will be a safe area for them to do their shooting with no danger. Yeah, stop guns by bringing in more guns. That is going to end well.

Well here is what you wanted. If a creep knows that a school has a guard with a gun, he/she may think twice unless their goal is death by cop. You have eliminated 50% of proposed solutions to the problem. Very narrow of you.

What I'm trying to understand is how, by wanting armed guards at schools, we eliminate 50% of the proposed solutions to the problem?

I am simply asking what are the solutions that this eliminates? I don't understand that part of your post and have asked twice now that you explain it.

I fully understand that armed guards would not prevent people who want to die in this manner from attempting shootings, but it might prevent those who do not want to die. It may also mitigate the damage done by those whose wish is death by cop. So how is this narrow minded?

Carl in Tampa has made a post that makes the most sense. "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. And the sooner that the good guy arrives, the less damage there will be"

I think that this is a problem that has a lot of complex causes and will require many different actions to combat it. Certainly we need to look at how our children are being raised and what happened psychologically to our society in general. We might consider the effect of violent video games and movies are having on us. There are probably a hundred other things that should be considered and plans implemented to help. But, having armed guards in the schools is an immediate deterrent for many of these criminals and an immediate means of prevention and mitigation in many of these cases. I don't know why some people would be so narrow minded as to want to eliminate that as part of the solution.

Unfortunately, as I have pointed out with some of the links I've posted, some anti-gun groups are using these shootings as a political tool to achieve their goal of completely banning guns in this country. They are making this problem out to be much bigger than it actually is. Until we get people to put aside their biases and agree to do whatever it takes to end the problem, it will continue.