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Originally Posted by Rathji
Would it make you happy if these guys were paid?
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It would make me happy if people were talking about realistic solutions to a problem of an increasingly entrenched gun culture in the states. This includes an examination into mental health services offered (not a register of anyone with a mental health issue - something which is the most offensive "solution" to date), an honest appraisal of inequalities that exist in society, as well as looking at strengthening gun laws so that safety measures such as trigger locks for existing weapons and proper storage are heavily legislated and increasingly restrictions on current weapons sales in combination with gun buy-back programs.
I think that putting armed guards in elementary schools is a foolish, expensive, knee-jerk reaction based on the horrors of a single tragedy and would do little to actually work towards protecting society and would actually serve to normalize guns and weapons around children, which I don't think is good at all.