I was just thinking about the horrible shooting event in Texas yesterday. Nineteen 8-9 year old babies and a couple teachers perished in a mad man's random attack on another school. The people of a little town of 16,000 called Uvalde, Texas, have experienced the worst of all disasters possible. There is no way to explain what happened or accept it. Over time, the little town may heal from the carnage, but the family and friends of the victims never will.
I spent over 30 years in public service working in education and schools. I have seen several of these horrible events play out. The first major issue I remember was a nut shooting kids on a playground in Stockton, California. Followed by shootings at the Columbine High School in Colorado, and on and on until the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut. The question is what can we do to protect the most valuable possession of our families. I started making noise about the vulnerability of our public schools in America. It starts with he basic design of the school itself. Most Americans are used to the sprawling school campuses with large playgrounds and numerous accesses into these public buildings. Think about this, have there been many school massacres in big cities where kids go to school in large multistory buildings with limited access points? The design of new schools should consider limiting the access to the schools and only having one or two guarded ways into the building itself. We do these things in our banks, government buildings, courts and some medical facilities. Why don't we spend the same kind of money on our most precious possessions, our kids.
The next question is on-sight security. Have you been to your bank lately? How about the courthouse for jury duty? How many security guards and law enforcement folks did you encounter while trying to enter the building? As a society, we have always spent more money on protecting our money and government buildings, then we have ever spent on protecting our kids at their school. There is no excuse for this negligence other than the fact our money and government buildings are more of a priority than our kids.
Well now, our Chief Buffoon in Charge took almost 5 minutes in his speech last night to turn to his obsession with the need for more gun control. The children killed in Texas were still in the classroom and fool was asking for more gun control. I don't expect a lot real assistance from the government based on him politicizing the whole event. Looks to me like he doesn't really care about all the babies killed at that school, but only his political agenda. We all know that gun control laws only affect law abiding citizens anyway. Guys like this shooter have little regard for more Biden crap.
The bottomline is if we don't look at this situation realistically and make changes in our existing school facilities, while designing new hard target facilities, and if we don't rethink the security situations in our schools we will see more and more babies killed while trying to go to school. I have experienced this school violence since the early 1970s and still haven't seen anything to stop this random carnage. Evil people with mental issues will continue to shoot and attack other people. That will never stop. However, I believe we can do things in our public schools to insure the number of kids still targeted in future years will be prevented.