Um, hun. I could name you countless stories of police officers planting weed in cars, wrongfully shooting people, and just general ********. I don't expect you, like most of the population, to know about what the police does though. These aren't just some weird, random occurrences.

So what do you propose? Police officers shouldn't be armed? So then WHO should have guns?

Alot of you are saying things shouldn't be a certain way, but aren't even proposing any valid solutions.

I clearly explained my thoughts. It's work well in regular schools but not in lesser funded schools. If you don't know how the black community and the police have had a long standing bad relationship

Wait let me me this straight

Banning guns will stop murderers from purchasing/obtaining guns?! They're such novel citizens!

And whichever idiot said armed and trained security officers shouldn't be trusted with guns is on some serious dope. Gimme some o dat

Adding guns to school security is a great idea but a very short term and quick solution. The long term solution is fixing the mentally unstable instead of putting them in jail and implementing stricter physical and mental tests in gun law.

So you're basically saying the police or more of an issue to worry about than mentally unstable outside criminals coming in and shooting up schools?

I'm Black and I understand racial injustice with the police. But protecting children schools in impoverished areas has absolutely NOTHING to do with this issue.

I'm talking about DAILY school life and activities. I honestly feel like some of them may overstep their boundaries. It's not related to this problem but I feel this would be a new problem.

Also the problem is that it's so easy to enter schools and say you're picking up Jillian Smith from 2nd grade.

Security should be at all entrances, individuals should show ID, and be searched for any weaponry. Just like they do when you're entering six flags or an amusement park but on a stricter more thorough level

I agree with you. But we need a solution NOW before a copycat happens. What you're saying is a long term solution that takes years

This is a good point, but Adam Lanza wasn't a student at the school he shot up. He was a 20-year old male. Nobody knew he had a problem. How can we control people who aren't willing to open up?

So what was to be done then?

Criminals will find a way to get guns regardless of whether they are banned or not.

Let's fight guns with more guns lolz.

Wow, so since 20 kids and 6 adults were just brutally murdered with a gun, that must mean that more guns is the solution to the problem The problem is the guns, if you were trying to lose weight, you know that giving yourself more food would not fix the issue on hand, so why do some people think it would fix this problem??

It's funny cuz the NRA, an obviously Republican leaning group, says we should hire police for every single school in America, that's over 130,000 people, where the hell would we get that money??? Oh WAIIIITTTT, I know!!!!!! We could get it from raising taxes on those making over $250,000 a year!!! Yay, problem solved!!!!! BUT WAIT JUST A ****ING MOMENT HERE!!!!! REPUBLICANS ARE AGAINST THAT!!!!!!!!! The NRA are a bunch of ****ing hypocrites, the first people they blame are the media, violent video games, violent movies, our society, they didn't even think about blaming the guns.

That's our little Jesus out there! GO GET 'EM!

Well first off, the President is a far higher target than just about everyone else in this country for reasons so obvious that I don't even need to explain them. Comparing his need for security to that of the average citizen's doesn't quite make sense.

Second, by saying that we shouldn't bother making making guns more difficult to obtain because criminals will always find a way, you might as well argue that we should just do away with laws because people break every one of them. We'd be living in a dystopia if we went with this mentality.

Third, arming every school with cops wouldn't improve things at all. They're renowned for abusing their power, and as RastaMentality said, this would become extremely problematic in inner city schools, because minorities tend to be on the receiving end of police brutality more than anyone else. It's not at all an exaggeration when I say that police are often just as bad as the people they're supposed to protect us from. The last thing they need is to have more power in their hands. Restricting the availability of guns to the general public will make a major difference. Just look at the rates of gun violence in other countries where people can't easily get their hands on a gun compared to here. That is hardly a coincidence.

No one is suggesting that they be outright banned, but countering gun violence with more guns is about as effective as curing a hangover with more alcohol. It makes no sense at all.

I think a great idea would be to make gun laws much more strict, and in addition to that, have a gun amnesty day. Everybody surrenders their weapons and as an incentive, the government gives them money or something else. I think it would work well considering the economy right now; people would be looking for an opportunity for extra cash if they are struggling a bit and they never use their guns.

Obviously not everyone would hand in their guns, but it would take a lot of them out of the public's hands.

what is this? 1995?